HULKE, JOHN WHITAKER (183o-1895), British surgeon and geolo gist, was born on Nov. 6, 1830. He was educated at the Moravian College at Neu wied, at King's College school, and at the hospital, becoming M.R.C.S. in 1852. In the Crimean War he was appointed assistant-surgeon at Smyrna and subsequently at Sebastopol. On returning home he was successively medical tutor at his old hospital, assistant-surgeon to the Royal Ophthalmic Hospital, Moorfields (1857-68), and surgeon (1868-9o), and after 1870 surgeon at Middlesex hospital. His skill as an operator was widely known, but he made his special mark as an ophthalmologist. He was elected F.R.S. in 1867 for his researches on the anatomy and physiology of the retina in man and the lower animals.