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almost forthwith as personal friends, and he attached them to him by 

 many ties of kindness and respect. In regard to their work he was 

 always interested, always sympathetic, equally so in failure and 

 success, and always ready to throw all his knowledge and resource, 

 and on many occasions hours upon hours of work, into overcoming 

 the difficulties their experiments encountered. 



Professor Roy was of middle height, strongly built, and naturally 

 very resistant to fatigue. He was of ruddy complexion. He became 

 quite prematurely grey. A feature of his character was physical 

 courage amounting to enjoyment of personal danger. Among his 

 pastimes were boating and riding. The flight of birds, the possibility 

 of aerial flight by man, and the construction of flying machines formed 

 a favourite theme of conversation with him ; and he had made some 

 experiments upon the subject. 



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SIR JAMES PAGET, BART. 18141900. 



The career of Sir James Paget, which was closed by his death in 

 January, 1900, had been one of the utmost advantage to medicine. 

 Not only had he by innumerable observations on disease enriched 

 with new and valuable possessions the special department of clinical 

 surgery, but by his unwearied devotion to science in general, and to 

 the cause of education, he had earned the gratitude not alone of all 

 classes of the profession to which he belonged, but of the nation into 

 which his' lot was cast. He died full of years and of honours. Although 

 he had for some time been more or less disabled by illness, he had 

 continued his labours for the public good up to the last sitting of 

 the Koyal Commission on Vaccination. He signed the Report of 

 this Commission, and it was probably the last of the more important 

 acts of his life. A form of aggressive muscular paralysis was at 

 that time threatening him, and its steady progress not long after- 

 wards deprived him of the use of his limbs. His intellect was 

 unclouded to the last; nor, excepting that it incapitated him 

 from most of the enjoyments of life, was his illness attended by pain. 

 He was within a few days of his 86th year when he passed peace- 

 fully away, free, as one of his sons has written, " from even the least 

 pain or trouble of mind or body." 



Sir James was of Norfolk family and was born at Great Yarmouth, 

 in 1814, being one of a large family. His only education was that of 

 a school in his native town, but as such it was good, and it was 

 supplemented by the influence of highly intelligent parents. Having 



