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Devonshire. In estimating his scientific work it must not be for- 

 gotten that it was done in addition to the daily task of bread- 

 winuing. 



There remains one other side of Pengelly's many-sided character 

 which deserves remark. He was a fluent and genial speaker and 

 lecturer. For many years he was a leading figure at the meetings of 

 the British Association, and there are but few large centres where 

 he was not known as a lecturer and not welcomed as a friend. Some of 

 his jeux d' 'esprit, such as, for example, his saying in treating of the 

 thorny question of man's antiquity, " That you may be as naughty as 

 you like," will long be remembered. He died full of years, and with 

 his services honourably recognised by his private friends and by the 

 scientific world. 



W. JB. D. 



By the death of Str George Buchanan this country has lost one of 

 its most prominent leaders in the branch of preventive medicine and 

 public health. George Buchanan was the son of a medical prac- 

 titioner in Islington, in which parish he was born in 1831. Very 

 early in life he gave evidences of marked ability, both in classical 

 and mathematical pursuits, and after graduating B.A. at the London 

 University, he entered University College Medical School, where he 

 became a scholar and a medallist, and from which he took his M.B. 

 and M.D. London, with honours and distinction. 



His early medical career fitted him eminently for the task of his 

 maturer years. He became Resident Medical Officer, and subse- 

 quently Physician, to the London Fever Hospital, where he acquired 

 an intimate acquaintance with the various infectious fevers, and he 

 joined the medical staff of the Hospital for Sick Children, where his 

 clinical knowledge of disease became considerably enlarged. Thus, 

 he was able to bring to bear upon the etiological research, to which 

 he was soon to devote the best years of his life, a thorough practical 

 and clinical knowledge of disease. As far back as 1857, he became 

 Medical Officer of Health to St. Giles. In many parts of London 

 the duties of such a post were limited to the supervision of a few 

 unimportant administrative details, but many of the annual and 

 special reports issued by Dr. Buchanan during his tenure of office in St. 

 Giles's remain to this day examples of the best type of administrative 

 counsel based on knowledge, in a scientific sense, of the various con- 

 ditions which affect human health and life. Indeed, it was the 

 quality of these reports that led to his employment as a temporary 

 medical inspector under Mr. (now Sir John) Simon, then Medical 

 Officer to the Privy Council, who, in later days, in his work on 

 ' English Sanitary Institutions,' says of Buchanan, that he was " the 

 author of reports which have become classical in sanitary literature," 



