312 Ohitiiary Notice* of FeUoius deceased. 



gait, and of the dark Bavarian type, with the powerful head and strong 

 neck upon broad shoulders, steady searching brown eyes, his was an 

 imposing appearance. Absolutely straightforward and reliable, stern, 

 terse and direct of speech, matter-of-fact and somewhat choleric in 

 temperament, he was difficult of approach. Attempts to interview 

 him for the mere sake of self-gratification invariably led to most dis- 

 concerting results. As he hardly uttered a sentence unless it was 

 pregnant with criticism or advice, he at least expected absolute con- 

 centration, plain statement, and logical concatenation of facts. The 

 slightest slip in thought or expression was pulled up with a sharpness 

 often distressing. His intuitive power of reading the character of his 

 pupils either made their existence a burden or life worth living. Every 

 day he paid a visit to those who were engaged in private research. 

 The greater the difficulty, the kinder and more encouraging he became, 

 and the resulting discussions, by which he opened up new vistas, 

 criticising the methods and results of other workers, were perhaps the 

 most precious occasions for those who had come to the master for the 

 sake of learning how to research. " I approve of your problem, but 

 don't imagine that I am going to help you. When you have got into 

 it, we shall have something to talk about." Nor did he trouble about 

 the technique. 



His influence as a teacher was great because of his clearness and his 

 power of treating the theme of his lecture in the shortest compass. As 

 a speaker, he was not brilliant ; on the contrary, his delivery was often 

 laboured, hesitating for the right word, but then that particular sentence 

 was complete and formed an integral part of the whole, and this carried 

 conviction. 



No wonder that all, Germans and foreigners alike, who succeeded 

 in seeing more of the man, felt his magic influence and learnt to admire 

 him, while those who had the privilege of more personal intercourse 

 with their master came to look up to him with a gratitude and reverence 

 bordering on veneration. Of course, he also made enemies, chiefly 

 through his merciless criticism, and they have not been slow in blaming 

 his followers for being too prone to accept his theories as so many cases 

 of avros e<a. No doubt he too has erred. Nevertheless, Gegenbaur 

 is not only the founder of modern comparative anatomy, but he has 

 raised the building to a great extent by his own hands, supported by a 

 school of disciples, steadily increasing through his stimulating and 

 correcting influence. The man is gone, his works remain, and through 

 them his method, 



H. F. G. 



