Studied at St Thomas’s and Guy’s Hospitals, and after qualifying practised in Cambridge. He opened a discussion in 1860, at the Cambridge Branch of the British Medical Association, upon the treatment of acute inflammatory diseases. Antiphlogistic measures were considered undesirable; some would use them to a slight degree, some abolish them altogether. Dr Todd, recently dead, had gone to the opposite extreme of employing stimulants, alcohol in particular. He invited members to give the results of their experience. Carter became well known from his devotion to the study of geology and palaeontology, and he was the local secretary of the Palæontological Society. He became an authority upon fossil decapod crustacea, and left in manuscript a monograph upon the subject. Further he published many papers in the *Geological Magazine* and the *Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society*, of which he was a Fellow. He presented a collection to the Woodwardian Museum. He lived at 30 Petty Cury, Cambridge, where he died on Aug 30th, 1895. Publications:– In addition to the papers mentioned above, Carter also wrote:– “On the Newly Proposed Treatment of Acute Inflammatory Disease.” – *Brit. Med. Jour.*, 1860, 647.