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menced publishing about the year 1 S 50 . One of these , the history , construction and application of the microscope , has run through ten large editions , and is still looked upon as a standard work . The IllustratedLondo ?? Almanac has been edited by the Doctor ever since its commencement forty-five years ago . After his secession from his medical studies , during which

his pen was busy for the daily press , the desire to qualify for his medical profession again overpowered his literary pursuits ) and after completing his studies at Charing Cross Hospital he obtained the diploma of the Royal College of Surgeons , and decided to devote his future to the treatment of diseases of the eye . This led him to the clinical assistantship to the eminent

eye surgeon the late Dr . Guthrie , and he was in 1 S 5 5 unanimously chosen to be assistant surgeon to the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital . Shortly after he became chief surgeon , and for upwards of a quarter of a century Dr . Hogg has given his unremitting attention to the duties of his position .

Dr . Hogg has during the last twenty-five years contributed largely to the medical press , and has published innumerable works upon ophthalmic surgery , and has been a constant contributor to all the eminent societies of which lie is a member . A chum in his early days of the immortal Charles Dickens and Albert Smith , Dr . Hogg can take us back to a school of literary and scientific genius of which he himself is a brilliant light .

THE EARL OF SUFFIELD . THE RIGHT HON . THE EARL OF SUFFIELD , K . C . B . of Suffield , Norfolk , Hon . Colonel 1 st Battalion Norfolk Rifle Volunteers , and 2 nd Brigade Eastern Division Royal Artillery , was born on January 2 nd , 1830 , succeeded his brother in the

barony when he was twenty-three years of age , and was married the following year to Cecilia Annetta , daughter of the late Henry Baring , brother of the first Lord Ashburton . Lady Suffield is Lady of the Bedchamber to the Princess of Wales and the Earl holds a distinguished position in the household of

H . R . H . His lordship was initiated into the Craft at an early age , and after passing through many honourable degrees was installed P . G . M . of Norfolk in 1876 .

THE DUKE OF CLARENCE . H . R . H . PRINCE ALBERT VICTOR CHRISTIAN EDWARD , DUKE OF CLARENCE AND AVONDALE , eldest son of the Prince and Princess of Wales , was born on the 8 th of January , 1 S 64 . On attaining the age of thirteen

H . R . H . became a cadet on the Britannia training ship at Dartmouth , where he spent two years under the care of Captain Henry Fairfax , R . N ., C . B . In July , 1 S 79 , the young prince went to the West Indies in the Bacchante , and in the following year , when the Bacchante formed part of a flying squadron

under Rear-Admiral Earl CfanwiNiam , in company with his younger brother , Prince George , started on a voyage which lasted a couple of years . Among the places visited were Vigo , Madeira , St . Vincent , Bahia , Montevideo , and the Falkland Islands ; thence they sailed to the Cape of Good Hope , and from

there to Australia , spending some time at both . On leaving Australia in the Bacchante , the princes visited the Fiji Islands , Japan , China , Singapore , Colombo , and Suez , and returned to England in the summer of 1883 , by the way of Egypt , the Holy Land and Athens . A diary was kept by the Princes during

their travels , and it was afterwards edited by their tutor , the Rev . J . N . Dalton , and published . In October , 1 S 8 3 , Prince Albert Victor became an undergraduate at Trinity College , Cambridge , and during the long vacations visited Heidelberg . On leaving the University the prince went through a course of

military science at Aldershot , and was eventually drafted to the nth Hussars , of which he is now a Major . H . R . H . was initiated into the Craft by his august father , H . R . H . the Grand Master , and was appointed a Senior Grand Warden in 1887 ,

and on Monday , the 15 th of the present month , was installed at Reading with unusual pomp and ceremony as Provincial Grand Master of Berkshire ,

THE RT . HON . THE EARL OF LATHOM . THE RIGHT HONOURABLE EDWARD

BOOTLEWILBRAHAM BARON SKELMERSDALE , EARL OF LATHOM , was initiated whilst a minor in the Apollo University Lodge at Oxford , and was appointed Provincial Grand Steward for Oxfordshire the following year , when he was but twenty years of age . Lord Lathom had amongst his contemporaries

Bros . C . F . Martyn , Sir Michael Hicks-Beach , and Sir Edward Malet ( the present ambassador at Berlin ) . On leaving Oxford , his lordship joined the Lodge of Harmony at Ormskirk , where one of his country seats , Lathom House , is situated . He was about this time appointed Provincial Senior Grand Deacon

of West Lancashire , and in 1861-2-3 he filled the position of Senior Grand Warden of the Province . In the latter year he received his first grand honours from the hands of the Earl of Zetland , who appointed him Senior Grand Warden . Four years later he became deputy to Sir Thomas Hesketh , Bart .,

Provincial Grand Master of West Lancashire ; and in 1 S 72 he succeeded that Baronet in the Provincial Grand Mastership , his installation , which was most magnificently managed , taking place on January 27 th , 1873 ; and on 5 th April following he was installed Grand Superintendent . Previous to this he was

the founder and first W . M . of the Skelmersdale Lodge , Liverpool . In 1 S 75 ^ 1 ° Earl of Lathom was appointed by the Prince of Wales , on his Royal Highncss ' s succession to the Grand Mastership , Deputy Grand Master in Craft Masonry and Grand H . in Royal Arch Chapter , positions which he still occupies . In the following year—1876 — he succeeded Mr . Romaine

Callender Provincial Grand Mark Master of Lancashire , and , at the same time , was appointed Deputy Grand Master of Mark Grand Lodge . In 1878 Lord Lathom succeeded the Earl of Limerick as M . W . G . M . of the Grand Lodge of Mark Master Masons , being followed , at the end of his three years' term , by Lord Henniker . Lord Lathom is a Grand Prior of England ,

and a Knight Grand Cross in the Order of the Temple , and a Past Grand Viceroy , and a Chief Intendant-General of Rome and the Grand Cross of Constantine , and a Past Captain of the Guards of the Patriarchal Council of K . H . S . of St . John the Evangelist ; whilst for many years he has been M . P . Sovereign Grand Commander of the Supreme Council 33 of the Ancient

and Accepted Rite , and an honorary member of the Studholme Chapter , Rose Croix . It was in 1 S 76 that Lord Lathom installed the late Prince Leopold Provincial Grand Master of Oxfordshire . His lordship has also filled the position of Chairman at an anniversary festival of each of the Masonic

Institutions , and was President of the Board of Stewards at the centenary festival of the Royal Masonic Institution for Girls , which was held at the Albert Hall in June , two

years ago , when the Prince of Wales , the Chairman on the occasion , brought as his guest His Majesty the King of Sweden , the head of the Craft in his country . The province over which Lord Lathom rules is the largest in the English Constitution , and the West Lancashire Educational Institution now boasts an invested capital of nearly , £ 25 , 000 . His lordship is also

Vice-President of the three Institutions of the Craft , and has for some years held the post of Trustee to the Girls' and Benevolent Institutions . The Earl of Lathom has been for many years a high official at Court—first as a Lord-in-Waiting , then as Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard , and during the

two Administrations of the Marquis of Salisbury he has held the important position of Lord Chamberlain . Lord Lathom possesses a beard which is the envy of all the bearded pards of the House of Lords . His acquaintance with all sorts and conditions of men and women , functions and faculties , has

made him one of the kindest and most courteous members of the English aristocracy . Lord Lathom married , in 1 S 60 , a daughter of the late Earl of Clarendon , and Lord Skelmersdale , his eldest son , is an officer in the Horse Guards .