GEORGE HAROLD DREW. 



(1881-1913-) 



George Harold Drew, only son of George Drew, of Devonshire, England, 

 was born on October 23, 1881, and died suddenly on January 29, 1913. 



From early boyhood chemistry and microscopy fascinated him, and 

 while yet a child he studied in a disused stable on his father's place, which 

 was made to serve as a rough laboratory. 



Until the age of ten he was taught by his mother, and then he was sent 

 to New College, Eastbourne, Sussex. Being deeply interested in the scien- 

 tific side of medicine, he entered Cambridge University, where he became a 

 scholar of Christ's College, and gained the distinctions of Exhibitioner, 

 Foundation Scholar, and Prizeman, afterwards becoming Schreiner Uni- 

 versity Scholar, and a student at Exeter Hospital. During his five years 

 at Cambridge he took the entire medical course, but afterwards decided 

 to devote his life to research, inclination leading him to choose the scientific 

 side of his profession rather than to engage in its active practice. 



After leaving Cambridge, he served for a year as University Scholar of 

 St. Mary's Hospital, London, and subsequently, after working for a short 

 time at the Port Erin Marine Laboratory, he went to Plymouth and associ- 

 ated himself with the Marine Biological Laboratory, wherein most of his 

 scientific work was accomplished. He was one of those chosen by Captain 

 Scott to serve upon the scientific staff of the British Antarctic Expedition, 

 but he declined the honor, preferring not to break the continuity of his 

 studies at Plymouth. 



From 1910 until 1912 he held a Beit Memorial Fellowship for Medical 

 Research in cancer; in the summer of 191 2 he was appointed John Lucas 

 Walker research student in the University of Cambridge, and on January 

 I, 1913, he became a Research Associate of the Department of Marine 

 Biology of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. 



His connection with the Carnegie Institution of Washington began in 

 191 1, when he accompanied the expedition to Jamaica, afterwards studying 

 at the Tortugas, and upon a second visit to America in 1912 he spent a 

 month at the temporary laborator>' established at Golding Cay, Andros 

 Island, Bahamas. 



He was to have been a member of the projected expedition to Torres 

 Straits, Australia, in 191 3, and his preparations were being matured at the 

 time of his sudden death. 



The saddest losses that the world sustains are often those it heeds the 

 least, and all who knew him realize that this young man, with his keen 



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