Excerpt from Saint Thomas's Hospital Reports, Vol. 19

Canterbury, whence he proceeded to Pembroke College, Oxford. Inheriting his father's love Of science and Speci ally of biology, be selected the latter subject for his degree examination, and became a pupil and admirer Of the late Professor Rolleston. In 1873 he graduated in the 1st class in the Natural Science School, and was soon after appointed Demonstrator to Professor Rolleston, who had previously Shown the high Opinion he had of Gulliver's character and ability by obtaining for him the post of Assistant Naturalist to the Transit of Venus Expedition. In this capacity Gulliver spent some months at Rodriguez, and on his return contributed to the 'philosophical Transactions a Report on the Zoology of the Island of Rodriguez, for which he received the thanks of the Royal Society.

He entered St. Thomas's Hospital as a student in 1875, and in 1879 he took the degrees of m.a. And M.D. In the University of Oxford, and the Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons. Directly after Obtaining these medical qualifications, he served as Clinical Assistant to the Hospital for Consumption at Brompton, and to the City of London Hospital for Diseases of the Chest. During his student's career he had made his mark as a man of considerable ability and promise, and in 1880 was elected to the Office of Resident Assistant Physician at St. Thomas's; he held this post, together with that of Medical Registrar, for two years. He then took the and a vacancy in 1882 occurring on the Medical Staff of the Hospital, he was appointed Assistant Physician. In 1883, when the cholera was rife in Egypt, be was sent out by the Foreign Office, and attached to the Ibrahim Pacha Hospital at Cairo; but later, at his own request, he was transferred to Assouan to carry out whatever sanitary measures he might think meces sary. While there, his dragoman was attacked with cholera, and Gulliver, who was the only European on the spot, nursed him successfully through his illness, Sleeping in the same room with him. When the epidemic subsided he returned to London, and read a valuable paper on the Etiology and Pathology of Cholera before the Epidemio logical Society.

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