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Bennett and Hueppe ; but he was not unmindful of the spirit he 

 inculcated on others in the preface to his collected writings in 1861: 



"No doubt science cannot admit of compromises, and can only 

 bring out the complete truth. Hence there must be controversy, and 

 the strife may be, and sometimes must be, sharp. But must it even 

 then be personal ? Does it help science to attack the man as well as 

 the statement 1 On the contrary, has not science the noble privilege 

 of carrying on its controversies without personal quarrels 1 " 



Virchow's place as a pathologist is in the line of Morgagni, Bichat, 

 Cruveillier and Rokitansky, of Hodgkin, Goodsir, Redfern and Paget. 

 Like many pioneers, he reached a period when he ceased to welcome 

 new discoveries. He never quite accepted, or perhaps appreciated, 

 Darwin's great work, and he scarcely realised the advance of pathology 

 in its bacteriological and experimental departments. But the extent, 

 originality and fruitfulness of his labours place him among the most 

 distinguished men of science in the nineteenth century. 



P. H. P. S. 



JAMES WIMSHURST. 18321903. 



James Wimshurst, son of Henry Wimshurst, who designed and built 

 the first two screw-propelled ships, was born in London, April 13, 

 1832. He was apprenticed to shipbuilding and engineering at the 

 works of Mr. James Mare, now the Thames Iron Works. After some 

 years spent on the staff of Lloyds, he was made chief of the staff of 

 the Liverpool Underwriters' Registry, and ten years later he joined 

 the Board of Trade as Chief Shipwright Surveyor in the Consultative 

 Department at Whitehall, a post from which he retired in 1899 on 

 reaching the age limit. All his life he devoted most of his leisure 

 time to experimental work, and fitted up for himself at his house large 

 workshops equipped with engineering appliances, driven by power. In 

 his workshop at Clapham he built his own electric lighting machinery. 

 About the year 1881 he became interested in influence machines, and 

 built for himself several of the then current types, including machines 

 of the Holtz and Carre" patterns. Into the former he introduced 



