B y the death of John Stephenson the world is deprived of a zoologist of high distinction, and his loss will nowhere he deplored more deeply than in India where so many fruitful years of his life were spent. He was horn in 1871 at Padiham in Lancashire, and received his early education a t Burnley Grammar School. He entered Owens College, Manchester, in 1887. His academic career was one of unusual brilliance ; a t the University of Manchester he was awarded the English Essay Prize and in every

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... xamination taken in the course of his medical training he secured a high position. He studied zoology under Milnes Marshall and obtained the B.Sc. degree (London) with honours in zoology in 1890. In 1893 he took the M.B., Ch.B. (Manchester) with first-class honours, and in 1894 M.B. (London), ranking seventh in the first-class in medicine. He had previously won medals in both anatomy and physiology and an exhibition in the former subject. During the years 1893-94 Stephenson acted as House Physician a t the Manchester Royal Infirmary and a t the Royal Hospital for Diseases of the Chest in London; in 1895 he obtained a commission in the Indian Medical Service, gaining first place in the examination, and in the same year he married Gertrude, daughter of T. Bayne, of St. Annes-on-the-Sea, a lady who by her understanding and genial hospitality did much to further the success of his work in later years in Lahore. In India he was for some years engaged in military duties; he saw field service with the Tirah Expeditionary Force in 1897-98, for which he was awarded the medal and clasp, and for a time he was placed on plague duty. In 1898 he was appointed Medical Officer to the 2nd (later 22nd) Punjab Cavalry and from 1900 to 1906 he held civil surgeoncies at Peshawar, Ambala and other stations in north-west India.