RICHARD TANNBB HEWLETT, a well-known and highly respected figure in British bacteriology for some forty-five years, died on September 10 at the age of seventy-five. Educated at King's College School and trained for his professional career at the Kind's College School of Medicine, Hewlett graduated M.B. Lond. in 1890 and for three years acted as demonstrator in bacteriology, eventually in 1901 succeeding to the chair of bacteriology vacated by his chief, Prof. Edgar Crookshank. In the interval he had served (1894-1901) on the bacteriological staff of the British Institute of Preventive Medicine under its then director, Dr. Allan Macfadyen. During his career he also acted as director of pathology and later as consulting pathologist at the Seamen's Hospital, and for many years he lectured on bacteriology at the London School of Tropical Medicine.
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