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irremediable sickness, gross mismanagement, and gallantry as often 

 as not ineffective, bore himself, in the opinion of everyone, with 

 patient courage as a brave soldier. 



On his return from the East he became medical tutor of King's 

 College Hospital, and, having previously been elected a Fellow of 

 the Royal College of Surgeons of England, was appointed, in 1858, 

 assistant surgeon to Moorfields Hospital. He had previously been 

 elected assistant surgeon to King's College Hospital, where, having 

 duly served his allotted period, he was appointed, together with 

 Dr. Charles Murchison, a colleague at King's, to the Middlesex 

 Hospital, of which institution he was the senior surgeon at the 

 time of his death. 



Mr. Hulke's earliest mark was made in ophthalmology. He 

 obtained the Jacksonian Prize of the Eoyal College of Surgeons 

 of England for an essay on the Morbid Changes of the Retina ; 

 his treatise on the Use of the Ophthalmoscope (1861) formed an 

 excellent introduction for most of the profession to the new system 

 of intraocular examination ; his Arris and Gale Lectures, delivered 

 before the Eoyal College of Surgeons, and subsequently published, 

 dealt with the Minute Anatomy of the Eye. 



Mr. Hulke was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1867, 

 his claim being based exclusively on researches relating to the 

 anatomy and physiology of the retina in man and the lower animals, 

 particularly in the reptiles. These were embodied in two papers 

 in the ' Philosophical Transactions ' (' On the Anatomy of the Fovea 

 centralis of the Human Retina,' and 'On the Chameleon's Retina'), 

 and in a paper on the ' Retina of Amphibia and Reptiles,' in the 

 first volume of the ' Journal of Anatomy and Physiology.' These 

 are characterized by patient and conscientious minuteness in the 

 working out and description of details, and cautious reserve in 

 drawing inferences. Probably the most important and permanently 

 valuable of Mr. Hulke's researches were those relating to the Retina 

 of the Chameleon, which the abundant material at his disposal 

 enabled him to elaborate in a more complete manner than had 

 before been possible. 



Mr. Hulke served on the Council of the Royal Society during 

 1879, 1880, 1888, and 1889; and was also a Member of the 

 Scientific Relief Committee. His communications to the Trans- 

 actions of that Society were numerous, and the last of them was 

 read before it on May 12th, 1892 — ' On the Shoulder-girdle in 

 Ichthyosauria and Sauropterygia.' 



Very soon after he became a Fellow of the Royal Society Hulke 



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