﻿Sir 
  -J. 
  Hutchinson. 
  

  

  xliii 
  

  

  pains 
  in 
  inducing 
  other 
  fellow-workers 
  to 
  join 
  in 
  this 
  important 
  educational 
  

   effort. 
  

  

  Hutchinson 
  presided 
  in 
  successive 
  years 
  over 
  several 
  of 
  the 
  London 
  

   medical 
  societies, 
  and 
  one 
  of 
  his 
  most 
  important 
  services 
  to 
  his 
  profession 
  

   was 
  as 
  secretary 
  and 
  inspirer 
  of 
  the 
  New 
  Sydenham 
  Society. 
  He 
  organised 
  

   the 
  translation 
  and 
  publication 
  of 
  many 
  foreign 
  books, 
  lectures, 
  and 
  

   pamphlets, 
  and 
  the 
  reprinting 
  of 
  not 
  a 
  few 
  important 
  English 
  memoirs. 
  

  

  Hutchinson 
  held 
  in 
  turn 
  every 
  office 
  of 
  the 
  College 
  of 
  Surgeons, 
  including 
  

   the 
  Hunterian 
  Professorship 
  and 
  the 
  Presidency. 
  He 
  was 
  elected 
  a 
  Fellow 
  

   of 
  the 
  Eoyal 
  Society 
  in 
  1882 
  on 
  account 
  of 
  his 
  contributions 
  to 
  scientific 
  

   medicine, 
  and 
  he 
  was 
  knighted 
  in 
  1908. 
  

  

  It 
  seems 
  right 
  to 
  add 
  to 
  this 
  record 
  of 
  Hutchinson's 
  activities 
  a 
  brief 
  note 
  

   of 
  his 
  recreations 
  at 
  his 
  Hindhead 
  home. 
  He 
  was 
  greatly 
  interested 
  in 
  any 
  

   opportunities 
  which 
  presented 
  themselves 
  of 
  studying 
  animal 
  pathology, 
  

   but, 
  most 
  of 
  all, 
  in 
  developing 
  an 
  educational 
  village 
  museum, 
  which 
  should 
  

   set 
  forth 
  in 
  a 
  homely 
  way, 
  geological, 
  biological, 
  and 
  historical 
  knowledge, 
  

   by 
  specimens, 
  diagrams, 
  and 
  other 
  illustrations. 
  Here, 
  or 
  on 
  a 
  grassy 
  

   platform 
  close 
  by, 
  he 
  gave 
  short 
  colloquial 
  lectures 
  on 
  Sunday 
  afternoons 
  to 
  

   village 
  audiences, 
  choosing 
  for 
  his 
  topics 
  some 
  scientific 
  material, 
  inter- 
  

   spersed 
  with 
  brief 
  discourses 
  on 
  biography, 
  history, 
  and 
  economics. 
  He 
  

   founded 
  an 
  educational 
  museum 
  also 
  at 
  Selby, 
  his 
  native 
  town, 
  and 
  there 
  

   also 
  he 
  gave 
  regular 
  Sunday 
  afternoon 
  addresses. 
  

  

  He 
  died 
  in 
  the 
  fulness 
  of 
  years, 
  only 
  desiring 
  that 
  he 
  might 
  be 
  remembered 
  

   as 
  a 
  '•' 
  forward-looking 
  man." 
  It 
  would 
  be 
  difficult 
  to 
  parallel 
  a 
  life 
  which, 
  

   almost 
  to 
  the 
  end, 
  was 
  so 
  full 
  of 
  ripe 
  and 
  varied 
  observation, 
  of 
  philosophic 
  

   review, 
  and 
  of 
  beneficent 
  activities, 
  superposed 
  on 
  the 
  career 
  of 
  a 
  busy 
  and 
  

   successful 
  surgeon. 
  

  

  T. 
  B. 
  

  

  