to fetch the body from the place of execution, which was not always an enviable duty. The actual lecture and demonstration was given by a fifth officer, a “reader” specially chosen, who was generally a physician. The masters of anatomy had to make due provision for the comfort of the “Dr.,” and they were specially charged to provide a “matte about the harthe in the hall,” in order that he might not suffer from cold feet. They also had to provide two fine white rods for demonstrating, a wax candle to look into the body, necessary instruments, and clean white sleeves and aprons for each day for themselves as well as for the reader. A fine of 40s. was imposed for inattention to these necessary details. The greatest formality was observed. The notices of the forthcoming demonstration were issued according to a regulated formula, which differed according to the rank in the Company of the person bidden, and, after assembling in the parlour, a procession to the theatre was marshalled by the clerk in due form. There were two demonstrations daily, at noon and at five, and between the morning and afternoon lecture the court and officials were “plentifully regaled,” the doctor or reader “pulling off his own robes and putting on the clerk’s, which has always been usual for him to dine in.” These demonstrations went on for three consecutive days, and at their close the clerk “attends the doctor in the cloathing room, where he presents him, folded up in a piece of paper, the sum of ten pounds, and where afterwards he waits on the masters of anatomy and presents each of them in the like manner with the sum of three pounds.” After each public demonstration the lecturer was allowed to give a private demonstration to his own pupils for three days, after which the body was decently interred, and the expenses incurred by the masters of anatomy (£3 7s. 6d.) were reimbursed. Seats were provided in the theatre, and the body was surrounded by a curtain until the demonstration actually began. Among the curiosities in Barbers’ Hall is a portrait of Sir Charles Scarborough, the physician to Charles II., in the act of giving an anatomical lecture with a “subject” before him, and Alderman Arris at his side assisting him. Scarborough, who was a good anatomist and distinguished mathematician, is represented as seated, dressed in full robes of scarlet and ermine, wearing a velvet hat with jewelled band and with lace cuffs, and Alderman Arris is scarcely less gorgeous. Alderman Arris, together with Dr. Gale, endowed those lectures, which are still given at the College of Surgeons, and which are known as the Arris and Gale Lectures. This Dr. Gale is not to be confounded with Thomas Gale, sergeant-surgeon to Queen Elizabeth, one of the earliest English writers on surgery.