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"bodies," and became acquainted shortly afterwards with the late 

 Sir Armand Ruffer, who was working at the same subject. At 

 Buffer's sujxgestion they went to work together at the laboratories 

 of the Royal College of Surgeons. They worked together there 

 and later at the British Institute of Preventive Medicine; whither 

 they had gone on its establishment in 1893, until illness compelled 

 Ruffer to resign. He became Pathologist to the Cancer Hospital 

 in 1894, where he further studied the various cell inclusions. He 

 was appointed Bacteriologist and Lecturer on Bacteriology at St. 

 Mary's Hospital in 1895, and succeeded Silcock, through whose 

 efforts the appointment was mainly made, as PathoLjgist and 

 Lecturer on Pathologv in 1899. His mother, to whom he was 

 devotedly attached, and by whose side he was afterwards himself 

 buried, died in 1896. In memory of her he founded the Eliza 

 Kerslake prize at St. Mary's Hospital. After his mother's death 

 he moved from Sydenham to St. John's Wood. 



In 1902 Sir John, then Doctor, Rose Bradford asked him to 

 take charge of the cancer laboratories at the Lister Institute which 

 had just been started. He resigned his post at St. Mary's Hospital, 

 and later he resigned his post as Director of the Pathological 

 Department at the Cancer Hospital in order to have njore time for 

 this work. 



From 1898 he had been working attrypanosomes partly alone 

 and partly with Bradford, and in 1906 he undertook the research 

 work on the subject of trypanosomiasis, which was organized and 

 directed by the Tropical Diseases Committee of the Royal Society, 

 and the same time he was made a member of that committee. 



He became Pathologist to the Zoological Society in 1907, a 

 post from which he resigned in 1917. 



His contributions to science were at last recognized in 1910, 

 when he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. It was the 

 only honour he ever desired, and its attainment left him quite free 

 of desires in that direction. In July, 1913, he was elected a 

 member of the Royal Society Club, of which he was a Treasurer 

 for the years 1914-1917. He was offered and accepted the Pro- 

 fessorship of Comparative Pathology at the Imperial College of 

 Science and Technology in 1915, was elected a member of the War 

 Oflfice Tetanus Committee in 1916, and later of the Trench Fever 

 Committee. He was actively engaged with the work of his Pro- 

 fessorship and with the work of the War Office Committees until 

 a few weeks before his death, being largely concerned in the recent 

 discoveries relating to trench fever. During part of this time he 

 was suffering from that illness of which eventually he died. His 

 death took place on June 22, 1918, at Coombe Bank, Sevenoaks, the 

 residence of his friend, Robert Mond, J. P. Robert Mond, and 

 more especially Mrs. Mond, his mother, were amongst his most 

 intimate friends, and Plimmer would have been the first to eulogize 



