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distinguished professors; and being naturally an ardent 

 student, he drank in eagerly the instruction which they 

 imparted and graduated with the highest honours, in 

 1878, receiving the degree of M.D.C.M. He became a 

 Doctor of Veterinary Surgery in 1890. As he progressed 

 in knowledge, gradually extending his reputation, 

 honours came pouring in upon him, and when the Royal 

 Society of Canada was founded by the Marquis of Lome 

 he was named a Fellow thereof. Other distinctions 

 reached were membership in the British Medical Associ- 

 ation, in the Canada Medical Association, the Natural 

 History Society of Montreal, and in the American Physi- 

 ological Society. He was chosen also a Vice-President 

 of the Society of American Naturalists. He founded in 

 this city a society for the study of Comparative Physi- 

 ology about the year 1885. While still a student, he be- 

 came greatly enamoured with the wonders of the human 

 body, its structure and the laws governing it, and he 

 acquired such a reputation for knowledge of this subject 

 that, in 1882, he was appointed demonstrator in Physi- 

 ology in the Medical Faculty of McG-ill. Whole-hearted 

 enthusiasm in his work characterized his intercourse with 

 the students while serving in this capacity, so that, in 

 1884, he was promoted by the Faculty to the position of 

 Lecturer in the same subject. In 1886 he succeeded to 

 the full dignity of Professor of Physiology. He con- 

 tinued in that office, which he filled with illustrious suc- 

 cess, until the year 1910. His prelections were marked 

 by great originality, as the result of profound and care- 

 ful personal research. Obliged to resign on account of 

 failing health he retired that year with the rank of Pro- 

 fessor Emeritus. 



Dr. Wesley Mills wielded a facile pen and was a pro- 

 lific writer. No graduate of the Medical Faculty of Mc- 

 Gill has so many publications to his credit as he. His 

 first book, "Outlines of Lectures on Physiology," was 

 issued in 1886. It was followed by a "Text Book in 

 Animal Physiology," in 1889, and that by a "Text 



