[ 599 ] 



George Harold Drew. 



The sudden death of Mr. Drew, at Plymouth, on January -jOth, 1918, 

 at the age of thirty, came as a great shock both to his fellow-workers 

 at the Laboratory and U) his many friends elsewhere. Since leaving 

 Cambridge as an undergraduate he had spent most of his. time in 

 Plymouth, and the originality and successful character of his work had 

 marked him out as one of the most promising of the younger English 

 biologists. His experimental work on tissue growth, which he under- 

 took in connection with the study of cancer, yielded results which are 

 bound to have much influence on future researches on this subject. In 

 addition to his pathological investigations, Mr. Drew made a special 

 study of marine bacteria and of the general problems of the meta- 

 bolism of the sea. In connection with this work he made expeditions 

 to the West Indies in 1911 and 1912, and some results of his observa- 

 tions are published in the paper which appears in the present number 

 of this journal, the final proofs of which he had corrected shortly 

 before his death. He was a man of much originality of mind and 

 independence of character, and possessed a charm of personality which 

 made his friendship peculiarly attractive. 



E. J. A. 



