x BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE, 
evinced itself so strongly in his after life. Those who knew him 
at that time date the commencement of his scientific enthusiasm, 
which was always afterwards very marked, from the first term 
of his attendance at Prof. Sharpey’s lectures, and he himself 
always spoke of that teacher with affectionate and admiring 
regard. i 
In 1864 Garrod matriculated at the University of London, 
passing in the first class. In the autumn of the same year he 
began his career at King’s College, London, having gained one of 
the Warneford entrance scholarships there, notwithstanding the 
fact that a considerable knowledge of classics was required for that 
competition. In the summer of 1865, whilst still a student at 
King’s, Garrod succeeded in obtaining the first medal in Prof. 
Oliver’s course of botany, at University College, a success of which 
he was always afterwards very proud; for it probably proved to 
him that, conscious as he must have been for some time of original 
power and grasp, he also possessed that capacity for steady applica- 
tion without which the former gifts are so often useless. Still 
working with indefatigable energy, he succeeded in obtaining the 
first, second, and third year’s scholarships for medical students at 
King’s, the highest success he could attain there. He remained 
working at King’s College Hospital till 1868, in which year he 
obtained his Licentiateship of the Apothecaries’ Society. It was 
during this period that his interest in the subject of the circulation 
of the blood, to which he subsequently devoted so much time and 
work, commenced. In the summer of 1868, in company with a 
younger brother, he made a trip to Marseilles by steamer, touching 
_en route at. Vigo, Lisbon, and Gibraltar, and returning by the same 
way, after a ctuise of about eight weeks. This trip Garrod enjoyed 
greatly, especially his visit to Vigo and Lisbon, about both of which 
places he was enthusiastic afterwards. While on board ship he 
devoted a good deal of his leisure to working at questions connected 
with the temperature of the body. Three years afterwards he 
again visited Spain, going to Cadiz, Seville, and Gibraltar, in com- 
pany with a college friend, but these two Spanish trips, and a 
flying visit to Switzerland in 1869, were almost all his experiences 
of foreign travel, for which indeed he often expressed a positive 
dislike in after years, - 
In 1868 Garrod went to Cambridge. Though he had put his 
name on the books of Caius College, and indeed appears in the 
University calendar for that year as a member of the College, he 
