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the University, but his opinion was not shared by the majority of 
his colleagues, and, as he had not prepared any very definite scheme 
as to the functions of and qualifications for the new Professorship, 
his proposition fell through. In December, 1878, Garrod paid 
his last visit to Cambridge, when he came down to examine for 
the final part of the Natural Science Tripos. His friends there 
were all alarmed at the marked change in his looks and health now 
manifest. Yielding at last to the pressure put upon him by his 
family and friends, Garrod was induced to leave London and try 
the more genial climate of the Riviera for the winter. Accordingly 
he left England about the middle: of December, and went, accom- 
panied by one of his brothers, to Mentone, where he stayed till 
the end of January. During this period he was for some time 
confined to his bed, and the change, partly because the season was 
wet and dull there, did but little good. 
Returning to London, he still continued, whenever strong - 
enough, to work, visiting the Gardens when the weather was fine 
enough to allow him to do so, and directing from his home, as far 
as possible, his work there. But his health was gradually failing, 
and he grew almost daily weaker and weaker, as the phthisis and 
its accompanying maladies increased. Unfortunately for himself, 
he was far too well aware of his own danger, and indeed from the 
first seizure, or shortly afterwards, he considered his own case as 
practically hopeless. Nevertheless, he never ceased for an instant 
from his zoological studies. The subject of the conformation of 
the trachea in the different groups of birds was in particular at this 
time attracting his attention. At these windpipes, being con- 
veniently-sized objects, he constantly worked, whenever able to be 
up, at his own home, and one part of his observations, dealing with 
the trachea of the Gallinz (infra, p. 477), he sufficiently completed 
to be enabled to publish it. This was his last published contribution 
to that anatomy of birds which he had advanced so greatly and loved 
so well. : 
In the summer of 1879 there was for some time an apparent 
change for the better in Garrod’s condition. He seemed stronger 
and more sanguine than he had been for some time past, and was 
enabled to go again to his rooms at the Gardens with some regu- 
larity. But it was only temporary. The last time, so far as the 
writer is aware, when Garrod visited the Gardens, was about the 
middle of August. Shortly afterwards, about the commencement 
of September, he became again worse, and rapidly began to sink. 
