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versing widely his own country, Mr Russel in 1850 made a tour 
in Ireland ; in 1863 he for the first time visited the Continent ; 
and in 1869 he went to Egypt, and was a witness of the ceremony at 
the opening of the Suez Canal. In 1872, after his first serious ill- 
ness, he made a lengthened tour through the south of Europe, visit- 
ing several places in France, Portugal, Spain, and N orthern Italy. 
The illness under which Mr Russel suffered was a form of heart 
disease, and by this he was for some years before his death so 
seriously affected that he was obliged to retire to a great extent 
from the literary work of the “ Scotsman.” Towards the end of 
last year the attacks became more frequent and severe, and his 
strong constitution at length sank under them. He died on the 
18th of July last. 
Mr Russel became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1870. 
Thomas Laycock was horn at Witherby, in Yorkshire, on the 
10th of August 1812. He was the son of a Wesleyan minister, 
and received his early education at the Wesleyan Academy, Wood- 
house Grove. Destined for the medical profession, he was, when 
fifteen years of age, apprenticed to Mr Spence, surgeon, of Bedale. 
He afterwards prosecuted professional studies at University College, 
London, where he followed the full curriculum ; subsequently, he 
went to Paris, where he studied under Velpeau and Lisfranc ; and 
from this to Gottingen, where he took his M.D degree “ summa cum 
laude.” On his return from the Continent he settled at York as a 
general medical practitioner. In 1841 he was appointed physician 
to the York Dispensary; in 1844 he acted as Statistical Secretary 
to the British Association, which met that year at York; and in 
1846 he became Lecturer on the Theory and Practice of Medicine 
in the York Medical School. On the retirement of the late Pro- 
fessor Alison in 1855, he was elected Professor of the Practice of 
Medicine and of Clinical Medicine in the University of Edinburgh. 
In 1869 he was appointed Physician to the Queen in Scotland. 
He was a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians as well as of 
the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 
Endowed with great mental ability, and possessed of indomitable 
energy, Dr Laycock contributed largely to the literature and science 
of his profession. He was an excellent linguist, and kept himself 
