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He lived during middle life at 71, Seymour Street, W., and at 

 Wilmshurst, near Fletching, in Sussex, and afterwards at Chilworth, in 

 Surrey. Leaving there in 1894, he led a roaming life for a few years 

 both at home and abroad, imagining himself a malade, until he finally 

 settled in London, at 77, Inverness Terrace, Bayswater, where, after a 

 series of heart attacks, which for the time being prostrated him, but 

 which he threw off with magnificent vitality, he died suddenly on 

 April 1, 1900, vigorous till the end. 



Mivart was of imposing physique, dignified and stately in manner, 

 and of a most charming temperament. As a host, he was ideal ; 

 courteous, chivalrous, and considerate to a degree. A brilliant 

 conversationalist, a fluent French scholar, he was quick to perceive 

 and ready of repartee, and he had the power of making the most of 

 every information which came in his way and of the aid of others in 

 his scientific work. He loved history, hated poetry, and as a writer 

 was always worth reading when at his best, as, for example, in his two 

 volumes of collected reprints entitled (1892) ' Essays and Criticisms/ 



Apart from the Lectureship already alluded to, he was in 1874 

 appointed to the Professorship of Biology in the newly-established but 

 very short-lived Catholic College at Kensington ; and during the years 

 18901893 'he was Professor of "The Philosophy of Natural 

 History" at the University of Louvain. This post he filled at the 

 urgent request of the University authorities, who desired modern 

 philosophic and scientific teaching for certain of their clerical students. 

 Mivart's teaching, however, was too " tough " for clerical digestion, and 

 as he was asked to accept the Professorship so was he asked to resign 

 it. He delivered at Louvain two or three courses of lectures, which 

 he gave in French. 



From Louvain he received in 1884 the M.D. ? and from Rome in 

 1876 the Ph.D. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 

 1869, and was a Fellow of the Linnean, Zoological, and other scientific 

 societies, on whose Councils he frequently served. He was several 

 times a Vice-President of the Zoological and Linnean, and was for six 

 years Zoological Secretary to the latter. He was also a Corresponding 

 Member of the Philadelphia Academy of Sciences. 



G. B. H. 



