Dr. Edward George Levinge, Medical Superintendent of the Sunnyside Asylum, is a native of West Meath, Ireland, where he was born in 1852. He studied at Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated A.B. in 1873, and in the same year took his degree as M.B., and L.R.C.S.I., and in 1879 that of L.M. Dr. Levinge had some experience in connection with British Asylums, first at the West Riding Asylum in Yorkshire, where he was under Dr. (afterwards Sir) J. Crichton Browne, as clinical assistant. This asylum was, at that time, the great school of lunacy in England, and there Dr. Levinge gained a knowledge medical was not then taught at the ordinary medical schools. He was afterwards assistant medical officer for about eighteen months at Newcastle-on-Tyne, and latterly at Hants County Asylum in a similar capacity. Subsequently, he was for two years and a-half at the Bristol Borough Asylum as assistant medical officer and deputy medical superintendent. Dr. Levinge came to Wellington in 1884 as surgeon on the s.s. “Dorie.” Soon after his arrival he was appointed Medical superintendent of Mount View Asylum. Wellington, and after rather more than three years' service was appointed in 1887 to the position he now holds. Sunnyside Asylum has been considerably enlarged since Dr. Levinge took charge, and about 200 additional patients are accommodated.