Born in Paris, and educated at University College, London, being at one time House Surgeon at the Hospital. He was Surgeon to the Farringdon Dispensary, and afterwards to the Hospital for Paralysis and Epilepsy, to the St Marylebone Dispensary, and to the Surrey Ophthalmic Hospital; and was Ophthalmic Surgeon to St Bartholomew's Hospital, Rochester. He practised at 30 Devonshire Street, Portland Place, W, and died after a lingering illness of sixteen months at his residence, St Peter's Square, Hammersmith, on July 18th, 1870. Publications: *The Diagnosis of Surgical Cancer*. Liston Prize Essay, University College, 1854, 8vo, 2 plates, London, 1855; 2nd ed, 8vo, 4 plates. *Illustrations of the Pathology of Cancer*, 8vo, London, 1856. "The Influence of the Variation of the Size of the Pupil on the Accommodating Power of the Eye." - 8vo, Glasgow, 1860; reprinted from the *Glasgow Med Jour*, 1860-1, viii, 268. *Some Observations on the Sensibility of the Eye to Colour*, 8vo, Glasgow, 1861. "On the Short Sight (?) of Squinters," 8vo, Glasgow, 1860; reprinted from *Glasgow Med Jour*, 1860-1, viii, 39. *The Progress of Ophthalmic Surgery, from the Invention of the Ophthalmoscope in 1851 up to the Present Time*. An Oration, 8vo, London, 1863. "On the Treatment of Inflammation of the Eye by Morphia." - *Edin Med Jour*, 1862-3, viii, 492. "The Utrecht School of Ophthalmic Surgery." - *Med Times and Gaz*, 1860, ii, 449, 579; 1861, i, 85. *Handbook of Ophthalmic Surgery* (with ROBERT C Moon), 8vo, Philadelphia, 1856. *The Optical Defects of the Eye and their Consequences, Asthenopia and Strabismus*, 8vo, London, 1865; German translation by A KARST, 8vo, Kreuznach, 1867.