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order, whilst the third was, we believe, to have been devoted to 
the osteology, and a general réswmé of the results arrived at as 
regards classification. Of these fasciculi, the MSS. of the first and 
second were well advanced at the time of Garrod’s death ; the first 
part indeed is nearly completed, whilst the second is about half 
done, and it is hoped that at no very distant date these may be 
completed and published by his successor in the Prosectorship. 
Besides these MSS. one or two incomplete papers have been 
left, though hardly any sufficiently finished for publication, except 
the one herein contained, and now published for the first time, on 
the anatomy of the Diving Petrel (Pelecanoides). 
There are in addition a very large number of detached notes 
and drawings, many of the latter, depicting the conformation of 
the trachea in different groups of birds, being the more interesting 
_ as having been made during his lingering illness when not too weak 
for such occupation. Of his zoological papers indeed, the orni- 
thological ones must probably, on account of their more novel 
character, and as affording entirely new data for the solution of 
the various problems connected with the classification of Birds, 
which he revolutionised, be considered of the greater importance. 
No future worker in that group can neglect the facts or ideas con- 
cerning it that we owe to Garrod, and they alone suffice to put his 
name in the very first rank of those who have ever studied these 
creatures, and to stamp his work on Birds as truly “ Epoch- 
machende.”* 
A final word may be said on Garrod’s character as a man. The 
universal regret which his premature death has caused amongst all 
who knew him, whether intimately or casually, naturalists or not, 
is the surest sign of the esteem in which he was held. Unselfish 
and generous, he was always ready to help anyone as far as possible, 
with advice or material. Always cheerful, and with a wide range of 
information and interest, he was a companion of whose society one 
never wearied. A man of strong character, with great energy and 
pronounced views on many subjects, he yet did not make enemies. 
Those who knew him best loved him most, and feel deeply how 
little is the chance of their meeting with his like again. 
* A more detailed review of Garrod’s ornithological work, by the editor of the 
present volume, will be found in the “Ibis” for 1881, pp. 1-32. 
