Obituary Notices. 
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Dr Sanderson. Ey Dr Buchan. 
(Read February 4, 1895.) 
Dr James Sanderson was born at Dunbar on May 21, 1812, and 
died March 28, 1891. He was educated at the Grammar School 
there, and thereafter entered the University of Edinburgh as a 
medical student. 
After graduation, his first appointment was that of Surgeon on 
board the East India Company’s ships “ Marquis of Camden ” and 
“ Duke of Argyll,” on voyages to St Helena, Bombay, China, 
Calcutta, and Ceylon. In 1836 he was appointed Surgeon in the 
Madras Medical Service, and in 1837 did duty with the artillery 
corps at St Thomas’s Mount. 
He was appointed in 1838 by Lord Elphinstone, then Governor 
of Madras, to organise the medical department in connection with 
the system of convict labour instituted by his Lordship. For the 
successful accomplishment of this Dr Sanderson received the thanks 
of the Government. He was next appointed one of the medical 
officers of the Heilgherries, which post he occupied for the next 
three years. 
He was placed on the Presidency Medical Staff in 1844 as Port 
and Marine Surgeon, and afterwards was appointed District Surgeon 
by the Marquis of Tweeddale, at that time Governor and Com- 
mander-in-Chief of Madras. Shortly thereafter he became medical 
attendant to his Lordship and suite, and subsequently served in the 
same capacity to Sir Henry Pottinger, who succeeded Lord Tweed- 
dale as Governor of Madras ; and also to Sir George Berkeley and 
General Strachey, Commander-in-Chief of the Madras Army. In 
1854 he was appointed Garrison Surgeon of Fort St George, 
Madras, and accompanied Lord Harris as medical attendant in his 
several tours through the provinces, and returned to England with 
his Lordship in 1859. 
In the following year he returned to Madras, was appointed 
to the Governor’s Body Guard, was sent to Galle to meet Sir 
