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fessional career became one of considerable eminence and success. 

 For seventeen years he was one of the Surgeons to University Col- 

 lege Hospital, where, to borrow the deserved eulogium conferred on 

 him by an accomplished member of the same profession, " his great 

 surgical knowledge and the kindness and urbanity of his manners 

 in his duties, both as Surgeon to the Hospital and as Professor of 

 Surgery in the Medical School of the College, procured for him 

 the warm attachment of the students." He was for many years a 

 Member of the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons, to which 

 he was elected in 1827, and became also one of their Examiners; 

 and in the year 1845 he was elected President of that body. 



It is, however, principally from the merits of his publications that 

 his fame has been derived ; and few members of the profession can 

 boast of a more useful career in this respect than Mr. Cooper. His 

 first publication of importance was an Essay on the Diseases of the 

 Joints, which gained the Jacksonian prize of the College of Surgeons 

 in the year 1806. But the great work, by which he became most 

 extensively and honourably known, was his * Dictionary of Practical 

 Surgery,' first published in the year 1809. This work speedily be- 

 came and long continued the universal text-book for students, and 

 so valuable a work of reference for older members of the profession, 

 that scarcely a professional library will be found which does not 

 contain it. This work was translated into the French, German, 

 and Italian languages, and was also published in the United States 

 of America ; and in this country it passed through numerous large 

 editions. Mr. Cooper had published in 1807 a less elaborate work, 

 entitled ' First Lines of Surgery,' which purported to be more par- 

 ticularly founded on the results of his own practice. This work also 

 reached three editions in the course of six years. 



Mr. Cooper became a Fellow of the Royal Society in the year 

 1846, and was a member of the Council in 1847-8. He did not 

 contribute any paper to the Philosophical Transactions. Latterly he 

 retired very much from professional and public life, and died at his 

 country-residence at Shepperton on the 3rd of December last. 



If, as must in truth be acknowledged, the literary and professional 

 labours of Mr. Cooper have not evinced a very high order of intel- 

 lect, or any great originality of mind, or profound scientific research, 

 yet his course was one of great practical usefulness, and his works 

 have undoubtedly been highly beneficial to the profession, of which 

 he was a deservedly distinguished member. 



Sir Graves Chamney Haughton was a native of Dublin, and the 

 son of Dr. Haughton of that city. Having, at an early age, gone to 

 India as a cadet, he acquired, at Fort William College in Calcutta, 

 the foundation of that profound knowledge of Oriental literature and 

 language, for which he was afterwards so distinguished. In 1817, 

 having returned from India, he was appointed a Professor at Hailey- 

 bury College, but retired from that appointment in 1827. In the 

 year 1832 he was a candidate for the Boden Professorship of Sanscrit 

 in the University of Oxford, but resigned his claims in favour of Mr. 



