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Medal of the Dublin Pathological Society, in 1867. He also wrote 

 'Medical Hints to Travellers/ published by the Royal Geograpical 

 Society, which reached a sixth edition in 1889. But the work by 

 which he will be best remembered in the annals of science, and 

 which formed the main occupation of twenty years of his life (from 

 1871 to 18.}1) was his laborious and painstaking investigation into 

 the structure and classification of two groups of mammals, the 

 Chiroptera and the Insectivora, on both of which he became the 

 recognised authority of his time. While stationed in India in his pro- 

 fessional capacity, he availed himself of every opportunity to study 

 the bats of that region. His first published paper on them was 

 entitled " On four new species of Malayan Bats from the collection of 

 Dr. Sfcoliczka," which aopeared in the ' Proceedings of the Asiatic 

 Society of Bengal,' for 187L. This was followed by numerous memoirs 

 upon various members of the group in the same journal, and in the 

 'Proceedings of the Zoological Society,' and the 'Annals aud 

 Magazine of Natural History.' In 1876 the trustees of the Indian 

 Museum, brought out his systematic and copiously illustrated work, 

 a ' Monograph of the Asiatic Chiropten.' This led, on his return 

 to England, to his engagement by the trustees of the British 

 Museum to undertake a still more important work called a ' Cata- 

 logue of the Chiroptera in the Collection of the British Museum.' 

 This is in reality a complete monograph of the order as far as the 

 materials then available permitted, and scill remains the standard 

 work on the anatomy, classification, and nomenclature of bits, 

 although the 400 species described in it have besn considerably 

 added to by subsequent investigators. Dr. Dobson's appointment 

 to the Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley, where he was placed in 

 charge of the museum, gave him further facilitities for pursuing his 

 zoological studies, for which he frequently expressed his obligations 

 to the then Director-General of the Army Medical Department, Sir 

 William Muir. About this time he began to extend his ran^e of 

 observation to other groups of mammils, and took up some interest- 

 ing investigations into muscular anatomy, which resulted in an im- 

 portant paper " On the Homologies of the Long Flexor Muscles of 

 the Feet of Mammalia, with remirks on thi va'ue of their leading 

 modifications in classification," published in the ' Journal of Anatomy 

 and Physiology,' 1883. 



Having in the British Museum Catalogue exhausted all the 

 material then available for working at the Chiroptera, he undertook 

 another and allied order, the Insectivora, and was doing excellent 

 service in elucidating the most interesting points in the structure of 

 its members, and unravelling the difficulties of their synomymy. He 

 wrote several valuable articles in the ninth edition of the ' Encyclo- 

 pEedia Britannica,' which were afterwards incorporated in Flower 



