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OBITUARY. 
Surgeon-Major George Charles Wallich, M.D., L.R.C.P. Edin. 
We regret to have to record tlie death of Surgeon-Major G. C. 
Wallich, the oldest (with one exception) of our Honorary Fellows, he 
having been elected in 1872. 
Although for some years Dr. Wallich had lived in retirement, his 
name was very familiar to naturalists and microscopists of an earlier 
generation, as one of the pioneers of deep-sea dredging, and one of 
the earliest to apply high microscopic powers to the study of the 
structure of the diatom- valve, fields in which so many have since 
worked. His activity in research during the period when he was able 
to devote his energies to microscopical work, may be gathered from 
the accompanying list of his more important contributions to scientific 
journals and other publications. He has also left a mass of unpublished 
manuscript in the possession of the Royal Microscopical Society, accom- 
panied by very beautiful drawings. 
Dr. George Charles Wallich was horn on November 16th, 1815, 
at the Botanical Gardens, Calcutta, and was the eldest son of Nathaniel 
Wallich, M.D., Ph.D., F.R.S., Knight of the Danish Order of Dan- 
nebrog, and Superintendent of the Botanical Gardens, Garden Reach, 
Calcutta. He was educated at Beverley, Reading Grammar School, 
King’s College, Aberdeen, and the University of Edinburgh, where he 
took his degree of M.D. in 1836, and became Licentiate of the Royal 
College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, in 1837. In 1851 he married Caroline 
Elizabeth Norton, daughter of Edmund Norton, of Lowestoft, solicitor. 
Dr. Wallich entered Her Majesty’s Indian Army in May 1838. 
He served as Assistant Superintending Surgeon in the Sutlej Cam- 
paign of 1842, obtaining a medal ; throughout the Punjaub Campaign 
of 1847, with the 2nd Irregular Cavalry in Brigadier Wheeler’s force, 
again obtaining a medal; and in the Sonthal Campaign as Field 
Surgeon, in 1855, 1856. He was invalided home early in 1857. In 
1859 he settled in Guernsey, and subsequently at Kensington. 
In 1860, hearing that an expedition was about to be sent out in 
connection with the survey of the line for the North Atlantic Tele- 
graph route between Great Britain and America, via Shetland, Faroe 
Isles, Iceland, and Greenland, Dr. Wallich volunteered to accompany 
the expedition as Naturalist. His offer was accepted, and on the 
22nd of June, 1860, he sailed from Spithead, in H.M.S. ‘ Bulldog,’ 
under the command of Sir F. Leopold McClintock, returning to 
London in November of the same year. 
In 1872, as stated, Dr s Wallich was elected an Honorary Fellow 
of the Royal Microscopical Society ; he was a Corresponding Member 
