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his

request performed by To W. . Harland, and I have in conuequence

nominated that. Gentleman to

continue to

perform

these duties

until the pleasure of your

be Kumwa.

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Fr Starland is a Medical officer well known here, he is on Doctor of Muchicine (1844) of the Edinburgh University, and e Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (December 1845). He also possenes an Strunary Certificate from University College London, and a Gold Medal (clase of Midwifery) from the University of Bdinburgh. He is now employed

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by the principal Mercantile Firms, and it would gratify myself and the Public generally, should your Inace be enabled to appoint him permanently to the office of Surgeon, for which his long residence in China and perfect acquaintance with the diseases incidental to the

Colonial

climate fully qualify him.

In Despatch "Separate" from this Office, dated 27th December 1848, I proposed that whenever a vacancy

occurred in the

Office of Colonial

Surgeon, it should, with

to

reference economy, be filled by one of the Staff Assistant Surgeons attached to the Garrison :_ when that Despatch.