xx BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE. 
Almost to the last he continued to work, and only a few weeks 
before his death busied himself in correcting the proofs of his 
paper “ On the Brain and other parts of the Hippopotamus,” 
which had been read at the concluding meeting of the Zoological 
Society in the preceding June, but this, his last scientific paper, he 
was not himself destined to see published. During the later phases 
of his illness, which he had throughout borne with exemplary 
patience and courage, laryngitis, causing a nearly total loss of voice 
and great difficulty in swallowing, had developed itself, together 
with a severe cough. Under this complication of disease, he at 
last succumbed, in the perfect possession of all his faculties, though 
physically fearfully weakened, surrounded by his family, and re- 
eretted by all who had ever known him, on October 17th, 1879, 
aged 33. 
Of the worth of Garrod’s scientific work, the papers contained 
in the present volume must be the criterion, and the full value of 
some of them, as he himself was the foremost to believe, will only 
in all probability be properly appreciated in the future. This is 
not the place or the occasion to attempt to form a final conclusion 
on that score. His own confidence in his physiological work re- 
mained unshaken, and the partial confirmation of some of his 
ideas that he lived to see was, as we have already said, a cause of 
the most lively pleasure to him on his death-bed. 
Whatever may be the verdict of posterity on Garrod’s physio- 
logical work, no doubt can exist as to the value of his zoological 
labours. The facts alone recorded in his various papers on this 
subject must always remain as a great and incontrovertible addition 
to our knowledge of the highest Vertebrata. His published papers 
only represent a portion of the work he had done in zoology, for 
he had accumulated in notes and drawings; as well as in his 
memory, an immense amount of information on the structure of 
both Mammals and Birds, parts only of which had been utilised in 
his various papers. These notes and drawings fill several volumes 
of note-books, and have fortunately been preserved intact. Of his 
work on the “ Anatomy of Birds,” which was originally to have 
been published in three fasciculi, the MS. of the two portions com- 
menced has heen also fortunately preserved. As originally planned, 
the first fasciculus of this book was to contain a detailed account 
of the anatomy of the common fowl, as a type of birds in general. 
The second fasciculus was to be devoted to a comparative account: 
of the “ soft parts” of the different families of birds in systematic 
