Tributes 



in the paper in the Philosophical Transactions on the Peru expedition, 

 referring to the mental effects of high altitudes. He remarks : ' Meakins 

 had a feeling akin to what he thought would be produced in him by 

 excess of alcohol.' You can see it all revolving in J. B.'s mind. What 

 Meakins had really said (in J. B.'s words) was that it made him feel 

 squifTy ; but J. B. did not like to infer that Meakins had any personal 

 experience of that condition. Of his quick and friendly wit, no better 

 example perhaps can be given than his acknowledgment of a few bottles 

 of cider I sent him in the winter of 1935. 



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In a personal record of J. B. those who knew and loved him would 

 not wish to recall him — indeed they could not — without also recalling 

 Lady Barcroft. As I wrote in the Lancet fifteen months ago, the laughter 

 which like a nosegay decorated their joint lives made them the most 

 perfect partners and the most perfect hosts. They realized that the 

 most serious things can often be better said and done gaily and they 

 said and did them so. Lady Barcroft is joint creditor with J. B. in our 

 bankruptcy. I think he would like us, and I know she would like us, 

 in all seriousness, to remember him not only with love but with gaiety. 



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