The gold-headed cane . NEW YORK PAULBHOEBER1915 . Copyright, 1915By PAUL B. HOEBER Published April, 1916 Printed in the U. S. A. INTRODUCTION. It is very fitting that a new edition of theGold Headed Cane should appear just at thistime, as a memorial of the life and labours ofits first owner, Dr. John Radcliffe. Here inOxford, where his name is writ large in stone,we had hoped to have ceremonies appropriateto the 200th anniversary of his death, but atpresent the University has other things to thinkof. The Radcliffe Trustees have, however, ar-ranged with Dr. Nias and the Clarendon Pressto issue
The gold-headed cane . NEW YORK PAULBHOEBER1915 . Copyright, 1915By PAUL B. HOEBER Published April, 1916 Printed in the U. S. A. INTRODUCTION. It is very fitting that a new edition of theGold Headed Cane should appear just at thistime, as a memorial of the life and labours ofits first owner, Dr. John Radcliffe. Here inOxford, where his name is writ large in stone,we had hoped to have ceremonies appropriateto the 200th anniversary of his death, but atpresent the University has other things to thinkof. The Radcliffe Trustees have, however, ar-ranged with Dr. Nias and the Clarendon Pressto issue a brief life and an account of- the Trav-elling Fellows, with whom his name is associ-ated. When and where he got the celebratedcane is unknown. To the story of his life sowell told here by Dr. Macmichael nothing needbe added. There is probably no name in ourprofession with which are associated so manybenefactions. The Radcliffe Infirmary, orig-inally erected by his Trustees out of theirfunds, has become one of the mos
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