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SIR WILLIAM WILDE was born at Castlerea, Co.. Roscommon, in 1815. Like many other distinguished men he was of mixed race, his grandfather being an Englishman from Durham, who came to Roscommon as agent to a local landlord, and his grandmother and mother being Irishwomen, natives of Connaught. He was educated at the Royal School, Banagher, and the Diocesan School, Elphin. It was in boyhood and during school life that he acquired the intense love of fishing and the keen interest in Irish legends and popular superstitions and antiquities which became so prominent a feature in his later life. Wandering over the district and speaking Irish fluently with its inhabitants he was a frequent and welcome visitor at patterns and cockfights, at weddings and funerals, where he noted the superstitions and ceremonies connected with the various feasts, and he repeatedly examined the cahirs, the caves, and the ruined forts in the vicinity of Castlerea and in the plains of Rathcrogan. Wilde began his medical education in 1832, when he was bound apprentice to the celebrated Abraham Colles, and became a resident pupil in Dr. Steevens' Hospital, to which at that period there was attached a flourishing medical school. copyright.

THE ABOLITION OF GAS WARFARE. T ZMDsCALnRanA 6Ir G. A. Wills), and the Head Master of Clifton College. A number of subscriptions have already been promised, but it is desired to raise a sum of at least £2,500. Subscriptions may be sent to Mr. James Rafter, M.A., Registrar of the University, and cheques should be crossed " Michell Clarke Memorial Fund." Dr. Michell Clarke was an active member of the British Medical Association; he was for many years honorary secretary of the Bath and Bristol Branch, and afterwards its president.