4 ADVERTISING FOR ''THE DOCTOR:' As I could not hear privately of any one willing to accompany our party, who seemed suitable, I considered the best thing to do was to advertise in the principal medical journals ; I also put an advertisement in the Times" and "Athenaeum." The result was, I was inundated with replies. Some of these were most amusing.

The evident difficulties some of my correspondents found in describing their personal qualifications may be best illustrated by the following extracts from some of their letters, which I here subjoin. One, after stating that his age was fortythree, and that he had never had a day's illness, went on to say that he possessed " a disinfectant, unknown to the profession, for the prevention of fevers ; also, the means of curing the same without medicine." He had had more experience in the treatment of fever than most medical men in England.

His concluding sentence we all thought delicious, and felt he was quite the man to rough it in Central Africa. I again quote from his letter : " I like a cigar after my dinner and supper, with a glass of mild ale, and meals at regular Jionrs ; so that I call myself an abstemious man, and one to be depended upon day or night." Another applicant kindly observed, "If the expedition is of a scientific character, I should not object to take professional charge, provided that I am allowed to obtain a sufficient stock of Jaborandi (?), Warburg's tincture, and other prophylactics against marsh-fever, without which it would be unsafe to venture into that country, or to permit others to do so. Furnished with these, I would, using proper precautions as regards sanitation, food, and clothing, face the Terai or the Gold Coast without fear or hesitation. I have an excellent constitution, delight in tropical climate (barring swamp), am never sea-sick, and accustomed to rough travel, and to carry my life in my hand. Like all old Westminster