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The assistant-surgeon's outfit may cost £120—probably less. His pay on first entry is 8s. Id. per diem—minus income-tax, and £2 12s. per annum for the Naval Medical Supplemental Fund. After being three years on full-pay. he has an increase of 6d. per diem; after ten years full-pay service as assistantsurgeon, his pay is 9s. 7d., and if he should be in charge it is 10s. ld. Few assistant-surgeons are promoted till they have had eight years' service; and the maximum pay of a surgeon is 188. per diem, to obtain which he must have served twenty years actually on full-pay. Your correspondent is very much mistaken as to the average