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France.” Numerous and varied were the capacities in which 
he sought to serve his fellow-men. While pursuing his medical 
studies at the Edinburgh University, he held the office of Presi- 
dent to the Hunterian Society; he was an active member of the 
Sunderland Literary and Philosophical Society in its palmy days; 
was one of its secretaries for a considerable time, and contributed 
largely to the success of its once famous Winter Evenings’ Re- 
creations. He was one of the committee of the Subscription 
Library; and at the time of his death was President of the Tyne- 
side Naturalists’ Field Club, the first evening meeting of which, for - 
this season, he attended in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, yesterday week. 
In connection with that association, a Geological class was lately 
formed in Sunderland, the meetings being held at Dr. Johnson’s 
residence, and last night was to have seen the members once 
more assembled in the same place. For some years he was a 
member of the Town Council, and at the meeting of that body, 
on the very evening before his decease, he received a pretty large 
measure of support in his nomination as one of the new magis- 
trates for the borough. Some years ago he was elected a director 
of the Sunderland Gas Company, and held that office up to his 
death. In the volunteer movement he took an active part, and 
on the election of officers, was chosen as surgeon to the Rifles. 
The warmth and genial-heartedness of his inner life was of course 
only known to a few; and for our own part, writing as we do 
with the recollection of many delightful hours spent in the society 
of the deceased, we can only express the hope that the special 
guardianship which is ever vouchsafed to the widow and the 
fatherless may be realised with a fulness sufficient to lighten the 
blow which has desolated the hearth of our departed friend.” 
His remains were interred in the new cemetery at Chester 
Stones, on Monday, the 16th of December. In accordance with 
a memorandum found among his papers, all display was avoided 
onthe melancholy occasion ; nevertheless, his remains werefollowed 
to their last resting place by a very large number of the members 
of his profession, of the officers of the Volunteers, and officers 
and members of this Club, as well as by many of his private 
friends, to all of whom he had endeared himself by the varied 
