Dr. Norman Chevers

born at Greenhithe, on the Thames, in 1818. He passed his boyhood there, and at Southsea and Portsmouth. His father?the late Dr. Forbes Mackbean Clievers?was a surgeon in the British Navy. Norman Clievers studied medicine at Guy's Hospital ; and he was always pleased aud proud to speak on the subject of his early associations at Guy's. He may be said to have been, even then, a man of mark. In his latest work he incidentally mentions the fact, that the first twelve years of his own professional life were spent chiefly in Maze Pond, Pimlico, and Upper Stamford Street?" all original paludal localities." His first commission in the Bengal Army dated from 1848, and he retired from India in 1876, with the rank of Deputy Surgeon-General. The first few years of his service were passed at the stations of Purulia in Maunbhoom, Chittagong iu Eastern Bengal, and Howrah. From 1855 till 1861, he was Secretary to the Medical Board, which then administered the Bengal Medical Department. His duties iu this appointment were very varied and laborious, extending, as they did, over the period of the Indian Mutiny and the years immediately following it. His devotion and indefatigable application to duty at that time