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guished military services." On his return to India lie was appointed 

 to the command of a division in Bengal, and nominated a member 

 of the Council of the Governor- General. In 1865 he was appointed 

 Commander-in-Chief in Bombay ; and two years later he was selected 

 to command the expedition to Abyssinia. The Abyssinian was one 

 of the most skilfully conducted of military expeditions, and it 

 achieved its object almost without loss. On its termination Sir 

 Robert Napier received the thanks of Parliament ; was raised to the 

 Peerage with the title of Lord Napier of Magdala; was made a 

 G.C.B.; and was presented by the Corporation of London with the 

 Freedom of the City, and a sword of the value of £200. Lord Napier 

 was afterwards Commander-in-Chief in India (1870-76) ; Governor of 

 Gibraltar (1876-82) ; and Constable of the Tower (1887-90). He 

 was made a Field Marshal in 1882, and was a G.C.S.I. ; he was also 

 an Honorary D.C.L. of Oxford, and was elected a Fellow of the 

 Royal Society in 1869. 



Lord Napier never wrote anything except his official reports and 

 despatches, and never spoke in public except upon subjects of which 

 he was master. His speeches were always to the point, and they 

 were listened to with attention. He was a man of perfect courage, 

 exquisite modesty, and great simplicity of character, who was 

 animated by a lofty conception of duty, and never, in word or deed, 

 departed from the high ideal at which he aimed. A distingnished 

 soldier, a sage counsellor, and a loyal servant of the Queen, he won the 

 complete devotion and implicit confidence of the European and 

 native soldiers who served under his orders, and throughout his long 

 life he employed his great talents in promoting the best interests of 

 the Empire he loved so well. 



C. W. W. 



Dr. Cobbold was educated at Charterhouse, and matriculated at 

 the University of Edinburgh in 1847 as a student of medicine, having 

 previously served a three years' apprenticeship with Mr. Crosse, of 

 Norwich, one of the most eminent surgeons of his time. Being 

 already possessed of great skill and dexterity in dissection and in the 

 making of museum preparations, he became, in his second year of 

 medical study, prosector to Professor Goodsir, and was thus Jed to 

 abandon practical medicine for anatomy. He graduated in 1852, and 

 was soon after appointed Curator of the Anatomical Museum, and 

 began to lecture on comparative osteology in the museum. 



In 1856 Dr. Cobbold removed to London, and thereafter devoted 

 himself chiefly to the study of animal parasites. In 1864 his well- 

 known systematic work (' Entozoa : an introduction to the study of 

 Helminthology,' London, 1864) appeared, to which he added in 1869 

 a supplement containing his later researches. 



