24 McGEE MEMORIAL MEETING 



so high a point of personal detachment. Instances of his physical 

 bravery are the common property of all his friends, while every man 

 who knows the circumstances of the last months of his life recog- 

 nizes in him the expression of moral courage of the highest and rarest 

 kind. The certainty that his days were numbered, that they would 

 probably end in prolonged agony, unrelieved by the companionship 

 of his wife and children, left him cheerful, clear-eyed, wholly without 

 self-pity, calm and sane in his determination to use what powers 

 remained to him for the completion of his work. What is more re- 

 markable still, while consciousness remained he was as keenly and 

 unselfishly interested in the affairs of his friends and as little prone 

 to concentrate upon himself as in the days of his greatest vigor. 



Beneath McGee's scientific attainments and mental power lay the 

 nature of one of the most kindly and genial of men, a lover of his 

 neighbor as himself, full of that finest courtesy which is never out 

 of fashion. His invincible serenity of soul made him the most de- 

 lightful of companions, and gave him perfect courage to speak the 

 truth as he found it. He was a great gentleman. 



