532 ANNUAL KEPOET SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1915. 



the meetings of the association in Canada in 1897, and in South 

 Africa in 1905, and took the opportunity of seeing a good deal of 

 these countries. He was present also at one or two of the earlier 

 triennial meetings of the International Congress of Physiologists. 



He did not take much interest in the ordinary business of the 

 university, but he served on the university council (1907-1910), and 

 if any broad question came before the senate he was fairly certain 

 to be found on the Placet side. When there was real need of his 

 services he did not grudge them. He served on the Royal Commis- 

 sion on Vivisection, which was appointed in 1906, and the final re- 

 port of which was not issued until 1912; and he was a member 

 of the Mosely Commission on Education in America. 



As an undergraduate he rowed in the May races, played cricket 

 and racquets, and frequented the bathing sheds. Later on he en- 

 joyed an occasional set of lawn tennis, but, in general, active exer- 

 cise did not greatly attract him. In recreation, as, indeed, in work, 

 he took throughout life a somewhat leisurely course. He liked both 

 work and play, but not to the stage of exhaustion. For some years 

 he spent part of the long vacation 5^achting and fishing with his 

 brother. His hobby was gardening. He converted a large part of 

 his 15 acres of sloping hillside at Shelford into a charming terraced 

 garden, the early summer display of which was the occasion of an 

 annual reception to Cambridge residents. He was always glad to 

 receive physiologists visiting Cambridge, and his bluff, hearty greet- 

 ing left no doubt of their welcome. In the evening he liked a game 

 of whist or bridge, and after college feasts he was among the first 

 to settle down to a rubber. 



In the year preceding his death he was a little troubled about his 

 health, but his customary course of life was hardly affected. He 

 was writing a small volume on the " Involuntary Nervous System," 

 and on September 3 revised the last sheets. Early on the following 

 morning he had a cerebral hemorrhage, and died on September 7 

 without recovering consciousness. 



