The Retiring Director-General

were carried out New anatomical block, new chemical block, new mortuary, new pathological and physiological block, new military pupils' quarters. In connection with the hospital a new out-patient department was erected, and [ several other improvements carried outthe modernisation of the hospital begun in his time was brilliantly completed by his successor? the present Director-General?while much was also done to improve the tuition of the students, the supervision of their work, and the nursing arrangements of tlie hospital. In 1903 Sir Gerald served on the Mulkowal Plague Commission, and in 1904 officiated for several months as Inspector-General of Civil Hospitals in the Punjab. His eldest son joined the Indian Civil Service, and was posted to the United Provinces in 1906, and a nephew entered the I. M. S. at the last examination Like Sir Gerald himself, and like Sir Alfred Keogh, his contemporary as-Director-General of the Royal Army Medical Corps, his successor Surgeon-General Lukis, steps up into the Director-Generalship from the rank of LieutenantColonel, passing over the grade of Colonel ; and also, like Sir Gerald, he last held the appointment of Principal of the Calcutta Medical College. We have traced in outline Surgeon-General Sir Gerald Bomford's career in India, but we feel it would be a pity to pass over the retirement of one so well known and one held in such high esteem without reference to his strong personality, and the straightforwardness and uprightness^ of character that gained for him the respect and confidence of the Government he served and the profession over which he ruled.