Xvili BIUGRAPHICAL NOTICE. 
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these Prof. Garrod was entrusted on the return of the expedition, 
and the specimens so obtained were the more valuable to him, 
‘because they helped to supply him with what had hitherto been a 
great desideratum. 
Not content with his own labours, Garrod was always anxious 
to induce others to work at his favourite studies. His rooms at 
the Zoological Gardens became gradually a centre for many other 
young men, who either aided him in his own work, or carried out 
further researches under his directions, or at his instigation. Those 
whom he thus helped were not all zoologists, for many artists could 
also testify to their indebtedness to him for the help in material, 
or the instructions in questions of anatomy, which he always freely 
gave when in his power. The society of artists, indeed, had par- 
ticular attractions for Garrod, and until his death he was a member 
of the Arts Club in Tenterden Street. 
These multiple and various occupations, added to an almost 
feverish activity of temperament, and an entire forgetfulness of 
self, proved, alas! before long too much for Garrod’s physical 
strength. Perpetually occupied in his scientific work, with new 
ideas opening out as every day brought fresh material and know- 
ledge, taking little or no holiday, and with the Italian Opera during 
the season as almost his sole relaxation, his health at last gave way. 
With hardly a premonitory symptom, Garrod was seized, in the early 
part of June, 1878, with a severe attack of pulmonary hemorrhage, 
which completely prostrated him for some time, and to those who 
knew caused apprehension of the gravest kind for the future. 
However, after some time he rallied somewhat, and became again 
capable of carrying on his prosectorial work. Although urged to 
leave England and try the remedial effects of a better climate, his 
love of London and work induced him to remain, heedless of 
the representations of his friends, and through the rest of the 
summer and autumn he continued to work in his usual enthu- 
siastic manner, though his health was obviously failing him. In 
the October of that year he delivered, without a note, the intro- 
ductory address at the commencement of the winter session of the 
King’s College Medical School, and in the course of the next 
month he paid a visit to Cambridge, to take part in a meeting of 
the Fellows of his College to decide on the new Professorships, 
which it was proposed that institution should endow. Garrod 
himself was strongly in favour of founding a Professorship of 
General Biology—a chair, as he insisted justly, greatly wanted in 
