Prof. Lionel Smith Beale, F.R.S.

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PROF. LIONEL SMITH BEALE, F.R.S., whose death occurred on March 28 at the age of seventy-eight years, was the son of Mr. Lionel John Beale, and was educated at King's College School and King's College, London. A year after taking his degree in medicine he established a private laboratory in Carey Street, Lincoln's Inn, for pathological, microscopical, and chemical research and teaching; and in 1853, at the early age of twenty-five, was appointed professor of physiology and general and morbid anatomy at King's College. He afterwards held the chair of pathology, and finally that of the principles and practice of medicine at King's College, resigning the latter in 1896. For forty years Prof. Beale was physician to King's College Hospital, and among other honours and appointments received by him during his active career may be mentioned the Baly medal in 1871 for researches in physiology; Croonian lecturer to the Royal Society, 1865; Lumleian lecturer, Royal College of Physicians, London, 1875; president of the Royal Microscopical Society, 1879; and Government medical referee for England, 1891–1904.