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surgical registrar at the Victoria Hospital for Children, and in 
1887 accepted a nomination for a colonial surgeoncy in Trinidad. 
He was at once placed in charge of the Leper Hospital at Coco- 
rite, and entered upon his duties and on the scientific study of 
the subject of leprosy with that industry, energy, and ability 
which had characterised all his previous work. His first com- 
munication on the subject was to the Pathological Society 
of London in 1885 on Tuberculous Leprosy of the Tongue and 
Larynx. During the following year he made seven communi- 
cations to that Society, and since then many instructive specimens 
and valuable observations on the bacilli, inoculation experiments, 
etc., have been recorded by him in the Pathological Transactions. 
It would take up too much space here to enumerate all the 
papers which he contributed to the various congresses, societies, 
and journals in this and other countries. Suffice it to say that 
in every one of them there is something original and thoughtful, 
and, like his able A nnual Reports of the Leper Hospital , they are 
all full of careful work. We may say that several of his most 
important communications were presented at the annual meet- 
ings of the British Medical Association, and have been published 
in the British Medical Journal. 
When, in 1890, the Committee of the National Leprosy 
Fund determined to send three commissioners to investigate the 
question of leprosy in India, the Royal College of Physicians 
was requested to nominate one of the Commissioners. At the 
suggestion of the writer of this article the late Sir Andrew 
Clark offered by telegram the post to Beaven Rake, who, with 
the permission of the Colonial authorities, promptly accepted 
the position. It is not too much to say that Dr. Rake was the 
strongest and most experienced member of that Commission, 
and that his name has added much to the weight and value of 
its report. 
