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The methods which Marcet employed, and the principal facts which 

 they had yielded, were for the most part demonstrated at the meetings 

 of the Physiological Society, of which he was one of the first and always 

 remained one of the most active members. His genial presence will 

 long be missed by his fellow-members. 



Marcet was in all things enthusiastic and optimistic ; he threw 

 himself into everything which he undertook with unexampled energy, 

 whether it were the pursuit of science, the practice of medicine, yacht- 

 racing, or climbing. His conversation and manners were animated, 

 and, while delighting to discuss scientific problems, he was always 

 careful to avoid saying or writing anything which could wound an 

 opponent. His friends were all who knew him: he made no enemies. 

 Although his general health was good, he was for a long time subject 

 to severe attacks of asthma, which would often be followed by 

 prolonged periods of relative ill-health, but his optimistic disposition 

 soon enabled him to recover his spirits and to throw himself just as 

 enthusiastically as ever into work or play. Towards the end of his 

 life, however, more serious symptoms affecting the heart and kidneys 

 became apparent, so that he was compelled to relinquish all work, and 

 to voyage for the sake of health. It was on such a journey up the 

 Nile that he was seized with the attack from which, on March 4, 

 1900, at Luxor, in Upper Egypt, he died in the 72nd year of his age. 



E. A. S. 



SIR HENRY WENTWORTH ACLAND, BART. 18151900. 



Sir Henry Wentworth Acland, Bart., was born August 15, 1815, 

 at Killerton, in Devonshire. He died at Oxford, October 16, 1900. 

 He was educated at Harrow, and Christ Church, Oxford. He graduated 

 in Arts (M.A.) in 1840, and in Medicine (D.M.) in 1848. He was 

 appointed Reader in Anatomy at Christ Church in 1845, and became 

 a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1847. In 1851 he was appointed 

 Radcliffe Librarian, and in 1858 Regius Professor of Medicine. In 

 1874 he was elected President of the General Medical Council. 



Acland's scientific career may be said to have begun in 1843, when, 

 having attended the lectures of Professor Owen during the time that 

 he was pursuing his ordinary medical studies at St. George's Hospital, 

 and having thereby acquired an interest in Comparative Anatomy, he 

 repaired to Edinburgh in order to profit by the greater advantages 

 which the northern University then afforded. As a student of 

 anatomy he came under the inspiring influence of John Goodsir, who 



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