A very prominent figure in the early history of medicine in London is =John Kaye=, or =Caius=, as he called himself, well known, by name at least, in connexion with Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, which he enlarged and endowed. Caius was born in 1510, and studied at Gonville Hall, Cambridge, which was ultimately to be better known by his own name. He went to Padua in 1539, and lived in the same house with the celebrated anatomist, Vesalius. He became professor of Greek at Padua, and took the M.D. there in 1541. He became F.R.C.P. in 1547, and settled in London in 1552. He was president of the College in 1555. He was physician to Edward VI., Mary, and Elizabeth, but he is said to have been removed from the latter position because of his Romish tendencies. He died in 1573 at his house in Bartholomew Close, and was buried in the chapel of Caius College, with the epitaph “Fui Caius.” Caius was certainly rich, as is shown by his splendid munificence at Cambridge. Although he was much occupied at Cambridge in the latter years of his life, he was frequently re-elected to the presidency of the College, the last time being in 1571. The frequent re-election of a president, who was latterly much of an absentee, may have been from the hope that the College would ultimately obtain some of his great wealth, but, if this were so, (of which indeed there is no evidence), the College was doomed to disappointment. Caius appears to have had great regard for form and order. He was the inventor of the insignia of office--the silver wand, the Book of Statutes, and the cushion--which are still used by the president of the College. On the occasion of the funeral of Dr. Bartlot, in 1556, we learn that the College attended in state, and that the Book of Statutes, adorned with silver, was carried before the president. Caius was very punctilious about the respect to be paid to the dead, and we find it laid down in the statutes of Caius College that the president, fellows, and students are to attend the funerals of subjects used for dissection with as much reverence and pomp as though it were the corpse of some more worthy person, because of the advantage which they had derived from it. Caius kept the accounts of the College with great accuracy, and in 1560, on the termination of his first six years of office, handed over the whole of the funds to his successor, amounting to £55 13s. 3d. He wrote out the annals of the College with his own hand, and thus did much to establish order in the proceedings. His love of what we should call “ritual” seems to have led him into trouble in his later years, and a large amount of material connected with religious ceremonial, which was found in Caius College, was burnt by order of the vice-chancellor. Caius was a profound scholar, and edited many of the writings of Galen, Celsus, and Hippocrates. He was also a naturalist, and wrote a treatise on British Dogs. His only original medical work was a “Boke