=John Radcliffe=, who became F.R.C.P. in 1687, appears to have been a blustering, kindly, and successful practitioner. He spoke his mind freely, even to monarchs, and seems to have made his way more by push than courtesy. His chief claim to be remembered is as a public benefactor. He accumulated a large fortune, and founded at Oxford the Radcliffe Library, Radcliffe Infirmary, Radcliffe Observatory, and Radcliffe Travelling Fellowship, and also left £500 a year to St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, London, for improving the diets of the patients. Radcliffe was only one of many London doctors who have been great public benefactors. I have already alluded to Linacre, Caius, Harvey, Baldwin Hamey, Caldwell, and Croon, and the list may be enlarged by mentioning Sir Hans Sloane (who founded the British Museum and gave the Chelsea Garden to the Apothecaries’ Society), William and John Hunter, Erasmus Wilson, and Richard Quain--the last and the most munificent benefactor of this (University) College. =Sir Hans Sloane= was born in 1660, became F.R.C.P. in 1687, was president from 1719 to 1735, and died in 1753 in his ninety-fourth year. He was president of the Royal Society from 1727 (succeeding Sir Isaac Newton), and retired to Chelsea in 1740, where his name still lives in Sloane Street and Hans Place. In his youth he accompanied the Duke of Albemarle to Jamaica, and returned home with a valuable botanical collection. He was a great accumulator of archæological and natural curiosities, and his collection was by his will offered to the nation at a nominal sum, and thus was founded the British Museum. Sir Hans Sloane was born in the last days of the Commonwealth, only three years after the death of Harvey. In Evelyn’s Diary we read how, on April 16th, 1691, he (Evelyn) “went to see Dr. Sloane’s curiosities, being an universal collection of the natural productions of Jamaica,” &c. He lived in the reign of Charles II., James II., Anne, William III., George I., and George II., and died five years after the birth of Jeremy Bentham, who was so active in the foundation of University College. THE CRUSADE AGAINST QUACKERY.