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assured ; nothing could shake his belief in him, never would he 

 go back on him in thought or word. It is only fitting, in this 

 connection, to mention his lifelong friendship for Professor 

 Ray Lankester ; a friendship begun in early undergraduate days 

 at Oxford, and lasting for life, with as much loyalty on the one 

 side as on the other. Nobody could be more appreciative of 

 a colleague than was Moseley, and the absence of all jealousy 

 is remarkable, as the two were rivals from the first — rivals in 

 the Schools, rivals for Scholarships and Fellowships, and rivals 

 for place and honour in the height of their careers. 



Space does not allow me to dwell on pleasant recollections 

 of hospitality at Moseley's house in St. Giles', Oxford. On 

 such occasions his good humour and geniality were delightful. 

 He was a capital talker, and thoroughly enjoyed a good- 

 humoured passage of arms, in which he rarely failed to come 

 out victorious with some happy and caustic remark, which re- 

 presented his opponent's arguments in a most ridiculous light. 



He had also a wonderful power of interesting and extracting 

 information out of people whose tastes and opinions differed 

 widely from his own. He was an admirable cicerone in the 

 Oxford museum, and excited the enthusiasm of the most 

 unpromising parties of visitors as he explained the zoological 

 and anthropological treasures under his care. By the same 

 faculty he was a most successful popular lecturer, having an 

 admirable power of giving a vivid description of his subject in 

 unconventional popular language. You could not help feeling 

 that he thoroughly knew and thoroughly believed in everything 

 that he described, and he gave an importance and definition to 

 details which left a lasting impression in the memory. 



The loss of one so highly and variously gifted leaves a gap 

 not easily filled up. 



It is the destiny of leaders that as they expose themselves 

 the most, they are the first to suffer. But the work of the 

 leaders of thought is not altogether vanity. Moseley's brilliant 

 and always original contributions to Science live after him, 

 as also his influence on his pupils and on scientific progress 

 during his life at Oxford, — the pity of it that it was so short. 



G. C. B. 



