Fergusson’s social instincts as well as his personal sympathies won him favour from all classes, and his male as well as his female patients felt deeply his kindly attentions, while children simply worshipped him. His practice was always to treat a hospital patient with exactly the same consideration as one in private. Mr. Henry Smith records the profound impression made upon him as a young student by his remarkable kindness and gentleness towards a little lame boy. It is not to be wondered at that he inspired his patients with the utmost confidence, an art that many equally clever have lacked. A gentleman who came to London to have an enormous tumour of the lower jaw removed, saw several eminent surgeons, but chose Fergusson as the operator without hesitation. “Directly he put his hands upon me,” said this gentleman, “to examine my jaw, I felt that he was the man who should do the operation for me; the contrast between his examination and that of others was so great.” As Mr. Henry Smith says, “Fergusson not only shone pre-eminently as an operator, but he possessed a profound knowledge of his art, and wielded all its resources with consummate skill. His powers of observation were remarkable; his memory was most tenacious; his shrewdness, sound common-sense, tact and knowledge of men, and how to deal with them, were acknowledged by all; and conspicuous amongst them was that facility of resource in all trying emergencies, which, added to his extraordinary mechanical skill, made him what he was, and brought about a success which has seldom been vouchsafed to any surgeon.” Fergusson became M.R.C.S., Eng., in 1840, and Fellow in 1844. He was appointed Surgeon to the Prince-Consort in 1849, and Surgeon-Extraordinary to the Queen in 1855, and Sergeant-Surgeon in 1867. In 1861 and again in 1868 he was elected to the Council of the College of Surgeons, notwithstanding the strong opposition of the existing council on the first occasion. In 1867 he became an examiner in surgery, and in 1870 President of the College. His lectures as Professor have already been mentioned. We may add that he was President of the Pathological Society in 1859 and ’60, and of the British Medical Association at its brilliant London meeting in 1873. His many other appointments and distinctions must be passed over, with the exception of the baronetcy, which he received in 1866.