BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE. 
Any account of the life of the author of the papers contained in 
the present volume must be brief. Not only was his career cut off 
at a time when most men are but just entering on life, but it was also, 
in some senses of the word, uneventful. Born and educated under 
circumstances which obviate any of those struggles which have 
made the lives of many naturalists interesting, his subsequent life 
was one series of unbroken successes. Nor was it marked by any 
of those episodes of foreign travel which have fallen to the lot of 
many other scientific men, before they have settled down to a life 
of work at home. 
Alfred Henry Garrod was the eldest child of- Dr. A. B. Garrod, 
F.R.S. He was born in London, on May 18th, 1846, at No. 9, Charter- 
house Square, where his father had commenced to practise as a phy- 
sician a few years before. From 1856 to 1860, his father having mean- 
while removed to Harley Street, he was being educated in general 
subjects at All Souls’ Grammar School, Regent’s Park, and after 
the latter date entered University College School, Gower Street. 
At both these schools the classical authors of Greece and Rome 
were at that time the chief subjects of study. For them Garrod 
never developed any special taste, though in mathematics and 
drawing he took a greater interest, gaining a prize for perspective 
drawing at University College School. 
Garrod’s life, however, in so far as it can be of any interest to 
those who were not members of his family and private circle, com- 
menced with his entry at University College about October, 
1862. Here he first began his acquaintance with the Natural 
Sciences, by attending the lectures, amongst others, of Prof. Sharpey, 
on physiology, and of Prof. Oliver, on botany, as well as those of 
Prof. De Morgan, on mathematics. From the latter, no doubt, 
and from his earlier education in the same subject, was derived 
that predilection for mathematical and mechanical studies which 
