336 LIFE OF SIR JOHN LUBBOCK 



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become more extended, more precise, and had 

 resulted, in the hands of Ferrier, Worsley, M'Ewan, 

 and others, in those great achievements of brain 

 surgery which had already proved so successful. 

 He wished to impress upon them very strongly 

 the importance of cultivating habits of business. 

 Sir J. Paget had given some very interesting 

 statistics which showed that out of 1000 medical 

 students whose career he had followed, rather 

 more than 200 left the profession or died early, 

 more than 600 attained fair, some of them con- 

 siderable success, but of the whole number only 

 56 entirely failed. Of these 56, 15 never passed 

 the examination, 10 failed through ill-health or 

 accident, and 10 through dissipation or intem- 

 perance. They might rest assured that if they 

 had done their best they would have the happiness 

 of feeling when old age came that they had led 

 useful lives, that they had brought comfort and 

 consolation into many a home ; had not only 

 relieved the ailments of the body, but the still 

 keener sufferings of the mind, and had enabled 

 many, if not to realise, at any rate somewhat 

 more to appreciate the inestimable gift of life 

 and the interest and beauty of the world in which 

 they lived." 



In the autumn, shortly after Mrs. Buxton's 

 death, he went to North Devon with Lady 

 Lubbock and their daughter Ursula. Minehead 

 was their headquarters. He writes that on 

 Sunday they went for a " beautiful walk along 

 the shore Westward, and back over the hill. In 

 one place found well-marked ripple marks on the 

 sandstones, which are highly inclined." On the 



