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4 accident, while bathing, which left him paralysed below the waist, with no hope of recovery.

It was in these circumstances that he determined to devote what time and energy remained to him to the cause of Science, and for the rest of his life he worked with indomitable courage and brilliant success at intricate biological and biochemical problems, taking special interest in Mendelian research. The success was the more astonishing inasmuch as many of his investigations called for exceptional manual skill, which he acquired by dint of almost incredible perseverance, in spite of the fact that his hands and arms were still partially paralysed. In the summer of 1921 a list of his published scientific works was submitted to the Council of the Royal Society, in order that he might stand for election as a Fellow, but he died before attaining that distinction, on June 27th, 1922, leaving an example of high courage to which it would be hard to find a parallel.