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He became a member of the College of Physicians in 1838, and 

 was elected a Fellow in 1843. He was Censor in 1861-2, and Senior 

 Censor in 1865. In 1872 he delivered the Harveian Oration, taking 

 as his subject " Harvey's Exercises on Generation." 



For a period of twenty-four years he held the appointment of 

 Examiner in Midwifery at the Royal College of Surgeons. 



Dr. Farre possessed all the qualities required in a great and suc- 

 cessful obstetric physician, and he soon acquired a large practice 

 amongst the very highest ranks. He attended the Princess of Wales 

 at the birth of all her children. He also attended the late Princess 

 Louis of Hesse Darmstadt, Princess Alice of Great Britain, in her 

 first confinement ; also Her Imperial Highness the Duchess of Edin- 

 burgh, in her first confinement at Buckingham Palace, in 1874, and 

 again at Eastwell Park, in 1875. He attended Princess Christian in 

 1867, at Windsor Castle, and again in 1869, at Cumberland Lodge. 

 He attended the Princess Mary Adelaide in all her confinements, and 

 the Princess Leiningen in 1863, at Osborne. Few physicians have 

 had the honour to attend successfully so many members of the Royal 

 Family. 



In 1875 Dr. Farre received the appointment of Physician Extra- 

 ordinary to Her Majesty, and although no word of dissatisfaction 

 ever escaped from him, his friends and professional brethren thought 

 it strange that this should have been the only public royal recognition 

 of his eminent services. 



After the death of Sir Cbarles Locock, in 1875, Dr. Farre was 

 made Honorary President of the Obstetrical Society. 



His chief literary contribution to his own department of medicine 

 was the elaborate article " Uterus and its Appendages," in Todd's 

 ' Cyclopaedia of Anatomy and Physiology.' Dr. Robert Barnes 

 says of this article that it " is the fruit of remarkable labour and 

 original research, digested and set forth with consummate judgment. 

 To this day it stands, if not unrivalled, yet unsurpassed. It is rich 

 in original illustrations, and just in acknowledging what is borrowed. 

 It may be doubted whether any similar work has stood the trying 

 test of time so well. Others may have added to it; few have made 

 corrections that have held their ground."* 



Dr. Farre was one of the founders of the Microscopical Society ; 

 he was its first honorary secretary, and served several times on its 

 council, and in 1851-52 he was its President. Through the influence 

 of the Prince of Wales he obtained for the Society its Royal Charter. 



He communicated several papers to the Microscopical Society, 

 amongst others the following : — " On the Minute Structure of certain 

 Substances expelled from the Human Intestine, having the ordinary 

 appearance of shreds of lymph, but consisting entirely of filaments 

 * ' Brit. Med. Journal,' Dec. 24, 1887. 



