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language, whether in public or private utterance, was always well 

 chosen, his manner of speaking clear and to the point, his material well 

 arranged. These qualities, although he possessed no particular gift 

 of eloquence, made it always a pleasure to listen to him. A pro- 

 minent characteristic of the man was his tact in dealing with difficult 

 situations, and, it may be added, with difficult people. He was always 

 ready, when appealed to, to afford assistance by advice, or even in a 

 more material way, to his friends and professional brethren who might 

 stand in need of such assistance, and many a young man has bene- 

 fitted by his thoughtful liberality. Small wonder that he was highly 

 regarded in the profession of which he was so distinguished an orna- 

 ment, and by the colleagues and pupils with whom he was so long 

 and so honourably associated. His eminence in surgery was acknow- 

 ledged by the Royal College of Surgeons, in 1880, in electing him to 

 occupy the presidential chair, and at the International Medical 

 Congress, in 1881. in his selection to preside over the section of 

 surgery at the meeting in London. He was also President for three 

 years of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society. He was a 

 member of the Royal Commission on Vivisection, which sat in 1875, 

 and was the first Inspector for England and Scotland under the Act 

 which resulted from the sittings of that Commission. He was 

 elected a Fellow of this Society in 1876. He contested the Univer- 

 sities of Edinburgh and St. Andrews, in 1885, in the Liberal interest, 

 but without success. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from 

 the University of Edinburgh, on the occasion of the tercentenary 

 celebration, and was besides the recipient of numerous honours, 

 culminating in the somewhat tardy recognition of his merits by the 

 Government in creating him a baronet, in 1895. But the honour 

 which he, perhaps, chiefly prized was that which his Alma Mater 

 did him and herself in electing him, in 1887, to the important 

 and dignified position of President of the Council of University 

 College, a position which he occupied until his death, to the manifest 

 advantage of both the College and the Hospital, with which his 

 whole career had been so closely interwoven. 



Erichsen was married, in 1842, to Mary Elizabeth, daughter of 

 Captain Thomas Cole, R.N. They had no children. His wife died in 

 1893, and was buried at Hampstead Cemetery, and he was himself 

 laid to rest in the same grave, on September 26, 1896. 



E. A. S. 



Samuel James Augustus Salter, or James Salter, as he always 

 called himself, came from a medical family at Poole, various 

 members of which achieved distinction in medicine or in science. 

 He was born in 1825, and received his medical education at King's 

 College. How well he spent his pupil days may be gleaned from 



