Stotfss. HONORS TO MEDICAL MEN.

On the occasion of the Queen's birthday the Honour of Companion of the Star of India was conferred on Surgeon-Major-General Rice, Sur-

geon-General with Surgeon-Major

and

the Government of India, R. Robertson, Agency Sur-

Gilgit.

geon,

GOOD SERVICE PENSION. service pension is conferred on Surgeon-Colonel A. Hilson in lieu of Colonel MacLean, C.B., suceeeded to Colonel's allowance.

A

GOOD

Surgeon-General W. F. De Fabeck, SurgeonGeneral with the Government of Madras, haa been recommended for a good service pension.

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INDIAN MEDICAL GAZETTE. APPOINTMENTS.

Surgeon-Major W. B. Browning is appointed Medical Officer to Lord "Wenlock in

place of Surgeon-Lieutenant-Colonel P. R. Gabbett, who has been in ill-health for some time past, and became very much worse during his tour with the Governor.

Dr.

Owen, Medical

Officer on Lord Roberts' Civil Surgeon at

Staff, has been appointed

Ajmir.

Colonel Durand will be absent from Gilgit about three months, during which time SurgeonMajor G. E. Robertson will act as Political

Agent Surgeon

RETIREMENT.

Captain

Herbert William

George McLeod, Bengal Medical Establishment, has retired.

SEA-PASSAGES, The Government of India have ruled that, as officers of the Indian Medical Service of less than three years' full pay service have now the rank of subaltern only, they are entitled to a free passage by sea when proceeding to Englaud on leave 011 medical certificate.

("July 1892.