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 agitans, was subject to iusomnia, and was slightly deaf. These infirmities rendered his attendance at public meetings somewhat irregular, but when questions of urgency arose he was always at his post at the Senate of the London University, the Council of King's College, and the meetings of the College of Physicians. During the last three or four years, however, his health had improved, aud he was able during his summer holidays to resume his shooting in Scotland, a sport of which he was extremely fond. Only last summer he related with pride how he had brought down a stag at the distance of so many yards. His house in Saville Row coutained many trophies of the chase. His sudden end on Wednesday, June 3, 1896, therefore came as a surprise and shock to all his friends. The cause of death was apoplexy. The morning of Monday, June 1, he was in his usual health, and he employed it in writing a paper which was published in the 'Lancet' of June 13, undor the appropriate title, "A Last Word on Cholera." This was a brief criticism on Dr. Ken- neth Macleod's articlo on "Cholera," in Dr. Clifford Allbutt's System of Medicine.' In the afternoon he went out for his usual dive, and it was on his return that he was seized with hemiplegia Though he regained sufficient consciousness to recognise those about him, he never rallied, and died within forty-eight honrs of the attack.

The funeral took place on June 8, after a preliminary service at St. James's, Piccadilly, conducted by Dr. Wace, Principal of King's College, and attended by a large number of his friends and admirers, Sir Joseph Lister representing the Royal Society; the remains were laid to rest by the side of those of his wife at St. Mary's, Addington The medical and scientific world has lost a distinguished ornament, an earnest and steady worker, a deep thinker, a vigorous writer, and a lovable and tender-hearted friend.

The foregoing enumeration of the principal incidents in his life shows how full it was of active service, but cannot paint the man as he was to those who knew him. The readers of his works wil see in him the trenchant writer, and the uncompromising but always fair defender of his views. remember the well ordered, logical, and clear exposition of his thoughts; here he never allowed his strong but contentious ideas to appear in undue relief when he was teaching his stndents. His opponents will know him as a hard hitter, but one who was always ready to acknowledge his own mistakes, and who never carried his words into the region of personal attack. It is, however, only those who sat with him by his fireside who can properly realise the gener- ous friend, the lovable disposition, the keen interest he always took in questions of science, and the enthusiasm with which ho followed up his theories. It was especially the younger men with whom he