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and in the keen ardour of the scientific chase the proper precautions 

 for the bodily rest and refreshment seem to have been often over- 

 looked and forgotten. When we recollect the disheartening and 



prostrating effect of these repeated attacks of illness the 



remarkable scientific successes he achieved during the last ten years, 

 and the vast amount of intellectual labour he must have accom- 

 plished, appear little short of miraculous." 



And again 



*" In such a region no one could hope for success but he who 

 possessed an eye trained to recognise the most minute distinctions 

 in petrological and palseontological characters in the field, a memory 

 gifted to retain them, a power of generalisation sufficient to group 

 them at once in their natural relationships, a faith in his own judg- 

 ment enough to follow the conclusions they indicated to their 

 widest issues, and above all an intense delight in the labour itself. 

 Linnarsson, pre-eminent among his contemporaries, seems to have 

 possessed all these qualifications, and his success was proportionately 

 great." 



If in these sentences we substitute the name of the writer for 

 the subject, Lapworth for Linnarsson, we have such a picture of 

 the man as few could have written and fewer still could have had 

 the right or authority to pen. Quoting once more from Professor 

 Marr's " appreciation " f" We claim Lapworth as one of the 



foremost geologists of all time We have lost a great geologist 



and withal a man of very beautiful character." 



[The writer desires to express his gratitude to Sir Jethro Teall, 

 Professor J. E. Marr, Dame Ethel Shakespear, Professor Fearnsides, 

 and Mr. Lamplugh, who have most kindly looked over his 

 manuscript, and made valuable suggestions ; and to that old 

 student who has so vivid a memory of a certain Silurian lecture.] 



* 27, p. 5. f Geol. Mag., vol. Ivii, 1920, p. 197. 



