624 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1921. 



The Royal Society of Medicine planned a funeral service at St. 

 Paul's, but the British Government determined upon a State funeral. 

 On the morning of July 9 the British Government paid its tribute Lo 

 the man. The honors paid him in death were worthy of the great 

 benefits he had bestowed upon the world, and of the life he had lived. 



With many, " the good is oft interred with their bones." A few 

 men are for their works blessed by their contemporaries ; others are 

 remembered by posterity. Seldom does that man live whose works 

 are blessed by his contemporaries and whose memory will be held 

 in reverence by future generations. General Gorgas was such a man. 

 A great man has gone ; there is no one upon whom his mantle can fall. 



