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often rendered him completely oblivious to the ordinary interests of 

 other men. This sometimes led to little peculiarities occasionally 

 bordering on eccentricity, but always of the most amiable kind. 

 His servants and sailors were devoted to him, and the few scientific 

 friends who had the pleasure of knowing him intimately could not 

 sufficiently admire the transparent simplicity and extreme love- 

 ableness of his character. Honours justly flowed to him from every 

 quarter, but left him modest and undistracted from the research to 

 which, in his youth, he determined to devote his life, and to which, 

 in his old a°:e, he remained so constant.* 



John W. Judd. 



[For the loan of the portrait we are indebted to the courtesy of the editor of 

 the " Geological Magazine," Dr. Henry Woodward, LL.D. F.R.S. F.G.S. F.Z.S. 

 F.R.M.S.— Ed.] 



Charles Stewart, 1840-1907. 



Charles Stewart was bom in 1840 at Plymouth, where his 

 father and grandfather had been in practice. He received his 

 medical education at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, taking the 

 M.E.C.S. in 1862. In 1866 he obtained the post of Curator 

 of the Museum at St. Thomas's Hospital, and was subsequently 

 Lecturer on Comparative Anatomy and joint Lecturer on Physiology 

 at that institution. In 1884 his connection with St. Thomas's 

 Hospital ceased, owing to his appointment as Conservator of the 

 Museum of the Eoyal College of Surgeons, a post he held till his 

 death on September 27, 1907. 



From 1866 Stewart was a Fellow of the Linnean Society, and 

 from 1890 to 1894 held the office of President. He became a 

 Fellow of the Eoyal Microscopical Society in 1867, and was joint 

 Secretary with H. J. Slack from 1873 to 1878, and from 1878 to 

 1883 with Sir Frank Crisp. In 1896 he was elected to the 

 Fellowship of the Eoyal Society, and three years later the 

 University of Aberdeen conferred on him the degree of LL.D. 

 (honoris causa). 



Stewart was a great lecturer ; his words came easily and 

 eagerly, and he was able to communicate his ideas and facts not 



* Interesting autobiographical reminiscences of Sorby will be found |in his 

 " Unencumbered Research : A Personal Experience," published in the " Essays 

 on the Endowment of Research," 1876, and in a lecture before the Sheffield 

 Literary and Philosophical Society in 1879, entitled " Fifty Years of Scientific 

 Research." A list of his numerous papers is given in " The Naturalist " for 1906. 



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