FAYRER, Sin JOSEPH, M.D., LL.D. and F.R.S. London and Edinburgh, F.R.C.P. London, and F.R.C.S. of England and Edinburgh, Fellow of the University of Calcutta, Fellow of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh, Vice-President of the Zoological Society of London, Knight Commander of the Star of India. He entered the British navy on the 12th August 1847, from which he retired ; and during the siege of Palermo, from December 1847 to March 1848, he served in ita military hospitals. In 1848 he was present in Rome during ita siege by the French. From Deceinber 1840 till April 1850 ho was in the Royal Artillery branch of the British medical service, but resigned and entered the East India Company's service, arriving in Calcutta on Oth October 1850. During the second Burmese war he WM present at the taking of the stockades and the capture of Rangoon, in chai-ge of the Geld hospital, where he remained for a year as medical storekeeper and civil surgeon. In 1853 he was appointed Residency Surgeon of Luckuow, which he served in 1857 during its siege by the mutineers. His house was one of the chief garrisons, and 14 were killed and 40 were wounded in it. Ile was with Lord Clyde at the relief of Cawnpur. lie was appointed in 1859 Professor of Surgery and First Surgeon to tho Medical College yospital, Calcutta.. In 1858 Itc mita
created a Companion of the Star of India, accompanied the Duke of Edinburgh and the Prince of Wales during their travels in India, and in 1876 was created a Knight Commander of the Star of India. He was author of a book on the Indian Tiger ; of one on the Thanatophidia of India.; of a work on Clinical and Pathological Observations in India ; of another on Tropiall Diseases; of one on Indian Fevers ; and of many papers and monographs in the journals of Europe and India. The Royal Family of Great Britain and his contemporaries bestowed on him many professional honours. He was Honorary Physician to the Queen, and to H.R.II. the Prince of Wales, and t,o H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh. He was President of the Asiatic Society of Bengal ; Member of the Senate of the Army Medical Schools, Netley ; President of the Medical Board at the India Office ; President of the Medie,a1 Society of London ; President of the Epidemio logical Society, London ; a Governor of Guy's Hospital ; Consulting Physician of Charing Cross Hospital ; Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society of London.