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fession, before leaving India for England in 1859, was the 
characteristic one of the formation of a society composed of the old 
students of the Grant College, which has served not merely as a 
bond of union, but been also productive of no inconsiderable practical 
advantages to its members. 
On his return from India he was offered the professorship of 
medicine in Netley Hospital, then just founded, which, however, the 
state of his health obliged him to decline. 
In 1862, he retired from the service with the rank of Deputy 
Inspector-General of Hospitals ; in 1857 he was appointed Honorary 
Surgeon to the Queen, and in 1881 was made a Companion of the 
Order of the Indian Empire. 
Dr. Morehead will be long and best known by his important 
researches into the diseases of India, based on a truly scientific 
diagnosis, and so successfully set forth in his great work on the 
subject ; and by the insight and strength of will by which he suc- 
ceeded in making clinical medicine so prominent a feature of the 
medical education of natives in Western India. 
It only remains to add that in 1875 Dr. Morehead published the 
• Memorials of the Life and Writings of his Father, the Eev. Dr. 
Kobert Morehead. He was elected a Fellow of this Society on the 
15th January 1860. 
Friedrich Wohler. By Professor Dittmar. . 
On the 23rd of September 1882, this great man closed his eyes to 
cro to rest after a noble and glorious career in the service of chemical 
science, extending over two generations. Some sixty years ago, 
when the elementary nature of chlorine had just been established 
and the isolation of cyanogen was still a novelty, young Wohler 
already worked as an investigator, — the same Wohler who rejoiced 
with us over the synthesis of indigo. Of the world of chemical 
discoveries that lie between he magna pars fuit. 
To desire to know something of the mould of external circum- 
stances into which such a great life was cast is no vulgar curiosity. 
The writer, accordingly, had no hesitation in availing himself of an 
opportunity which presented itself some time ago for obtaining 
