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to men of science. I do not know which to admire more, the 

 fertility of idea which Sir Edwin showed, or the generosity with 

 which he placed funds at our disposal for the purpose of such 

 researches ; and I certainly think that a short note on the 

 subject should be placed upon record. About ten years ago 

 Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence seems to have become acquainted 

 with the late Sir Rubert Boyce, Professor of Pathology at the 

 University of Liverpool. Boyce was an Irishman of the very 

 best type, with all the vigour and enthusiasm of his race, and 

 directed these qualities especially to the promotion of medical 

 investigation . I do not know exactly what passed between them 

 then, but at that time Boyce was Dean of the Liverpool School of 

 Tropical Medicine (of which I was Professor), and he was always 

 keenly interested in yellow fever. Now Sir Edwin had long 

 considered a hypothesis, which seems first to have seen the 

 light in America, that yellow fever can be easily cured in the 

 presence of cold, and Sir Edwin at this time appears to have 

 offered, through Sir Rubert Boyce, a very considerable sum of 

 money to the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, for the 

 purpose of carrying out investigations on this subject. Un- 

 fortunately such investigations would have been extremely 

 difficult, as they would have necessitated the construction 

 of special freezing chambers in some very unhealthy part of 

 America, and it was always doubtful whether any results would 

 accrue. Apparently therefore, after due consideration, the 

 School found itself unable to conduct the proposed researches. 

 In the year 1909, however, when I was Professor of Tropical 

 Medicine at the University of Liverpool, we received a con- 

 siderable sum of money from the Colonial Office for researches ; 

 and determined to employ this money, together with other 

 funds which I might be able to raise, in prosecuting a very de- 

 tailed investigation of certain parasitic maladies in England. 

 Remembering Sir Edwin's generous offer, I wrote to him again, 

 and asked him whether he would pay for a freezing chamber 

 at the University of Liverpool, and also for a special research 

 assistant to carry out investigations . He immediately responded 

 with the sum of a thousand pounds, with promise of further 

 sums when needed. My idea was that Sir Edwin's original 

 conception would work in well with the detailed researches 

 which I was now contemplating, and I proposed to employ his 

 freezing chamber, not for the study of yellow fever, which of 



