striking than his logical power, which is evident in all his works. Asiatic cholera, when it broke out in Bristol in 1866, found William Budd and Bristol prepared. The deaths from this destroyer in 1849 had been 1979, in 1866 they were but 29, notwithstanding that the disease broke out very severely, and occurred in twenty-six different localities. Budd’s preventive measures, and his stringent plans of disinfection, proved victorious. He made the contagious diseases of animals subjects of special study; and his conclusion was that several of them could only be adequately dealt with by immediately slaughtering the infected animals. This view he took in regard to the terrible rinderpest of 1866: and his advice of “a poleaxe and a pit of quicklime,” though at first ridiculed, had to be followed, after great loss had taken place through not following it earlier. Dr. Budd was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1870. Besides his famous work on typhoid fever, and many scattered contributions to medical journals and societies, Dr. Budd was the author of the following works, many of which are of very great value:—“Malignant Cholera: its Mode of Propagation and its Prevention” (1849); “Scarlet Fever and its Prevention” (1869); “The Siberian Cattle Plague, or the Typhoid Fever of the Ox” (1865); “On Diseases which affect Corresponding Parts of the Body in a Symmetrical Manner” (1842); “Researches on Gout” (1855); “Cholera and Disinfection, or Asiatic Cholera in Bristol in 1866” (1871); “Variola Ovina—Sheep’s Smallpox—or the Laws of Contagious Epidemics Illustrated by an Experimental Type” (1863). He was an accomplished draughtsman and an excellent photographer, and made great use of these arts in his researches. He was well skilled in French, German, and Italian, and kept himself well up in Continental as well as English medical literature. He worked with untiring energy and industry, having a large practice extending far beyond Bristol: but the attempt to combine this with so much original research proved too much for his constitution. He had been originally strong, but was weakened by two attacks of fever, and finally in 1873 his health broke down, and this led to his finally retiring from practice and settling at Clevedon, where he died January 9, 1880. Just previously to his retirement he had committed to his friend Dr. Paget of Cambridge a brief summary of the results of many years’ study of pulmonary consumption, as to its communicability from person to person by organic germs. This was published in the _Lancet_ at the time, but unfortunately the fuller researches therein referred to have never been given to the public. But in connection with typhoid and other zymotic fevers he has left on the subject the indelible impression of his great genius. * * * * *