Mullick seems to have been then unknown. The fourth document is from nowhere, and unsigned. Dr. Mullick boldly stated at the annual meeting that it was very fortunate it was unsigned, as he got it from a distinguished member of the Indian Medical Service. Did he? It is very strange that this "distinguished member" did not bring it up to date, as the last entry in this well-worn document is over two years old. As I said before, it seems to consist largely of excerpts from Indian Medical Service papers as to the movements of the staff in the Madras Presidency during the years i88i to I899, mixed with some pious opinions of the compiler. The whole of the facts could be easily collated from the Indian medical papers. Like Balaam, this document was intended to curse, but it often blesses; and Dr. Mullick might exclaim, in the language of Balak, "I called thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast altogether blessed them." Take, for example, the much despised chair of midwifery. I was told by a gentleman at the annual meeting, who evidently knew nothing about the subject, that he objected to an ophthalmologist being made professor of midwifery. The next change was caused by the promotion to the administrative ranks of the Medical Service of the Professor of Midwifery (Lieutenant-Colonel A. M. Branfoot, M.B., I.M.S., C.I.E.), who vacated his Chair on April 3oth, and thus ended an association with the Medical College of over twenty-one years. an association that was as fortunate for the College as it was distinguished for himself, and during which long period he filled in succession the Chairs of Pathology, Hygiene, and Midwifery. In 1877 he was appointed to act as Professor of Pathology and Resident Surgeon of the General Hospital. In July, i878, he was elected to fill the newly-appointed Chair of Hygiene, with the associated duty of Assistant
