OBITUARY NOTICES OF FELLOWS DECEASED. 



Charles Brooke was born on the 30th Jane, 1804. He was the 

 son of the well-known mineralogist Mr. H. J. Brooke. His early 

 education was carried on at Chiswick. nnder Dr. Turner ; after this he 

 studied at Rugby ; and from thence he went to Cambridge. He 

 remained there five years, and graduated in Arts, taking honours as a 

 Wrangler. During the latter part of this period he studied medicine, 

 and his professional education was completed at St. Bartholomew's. 

 He lectured for one or two sessions on surgery, at Dermott's School, 

 and afterwards held positions on the surgical staff of the Metropolitan 

 Free Hospital and the Westminster Hospital. At the latter he con- 

 tinued to lecture till a short time before his death. In 1844 the 

 Royal College of Surgeons conferred on him an Honorary Fellowship ; 

 in 1847 he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society, at the evening 

 meetings of which he was a very regular attendant, and frequent 

 speaker, especially on physical questions. He belonged to the 

 Meteorological and Royal Microscopical Societies, and occupied the 

 President's chair in each of these bodies ; he also at various times 

 served on the management of the Royal Institution, and on the 

 Council of the Royal Botanical Society. In addition to these he was 

 connected with many philanthropic and religious societies ; and was a 

 very active member of the Victoria Institute and Christian Medical 

 Association. 



He was much esteemed in his profession as a surgeon ; and is 

 known as the inventor, forty years ago, of the "bead suture," 

 which was a great step in advance in the scientific treatment of deep 

 wounds. 



His published papers and lectures have almost always pertained to 

 the department of physics, mathematical and experimental ; and his 

 more especial work was the inventing or perfecting of apparatus. 

 His papers date back to 1835, when he wrote upon the Motion of 

 Sound in Space ; but the work upon which his reputation mainly 

 rests was published between 1846 and 1852. This was the invention 

 of those self-recording instruments which have been adopted at the 

 Royal Observatories of Greenwich, Paris, and other meteorological 



