LIFE OF DR. ROLLESTON. lxv 



position with reference to the very serious issues of which you 

 write.' Nothing could show more clearly that in these last 

 weeks of his life his mind lay in a cheerful calm. He was of 

 those, to be accounted happy in death, who do not in their last 

 hours painfully shift the moorings they have made fast to in 

 time of health and strength. The temporary revival to which 

 this letter belongs was not to last. On his way back to 

 England increased illness prostrated him, and it was with 

 difficulty that his friends Dr. Child and Mr. Chapman, who 

 went to meet him in Paris, were able to bring him home to 

 Oxford, where his bodily distress, borne with a gentleness and 

 patience which impressed the physicians who watched him, came 

 to its end on June 16, 1881, in his 52nd year. 



Dr. Kolleston's face and bearing are well recalled by the 

 portrait in this volume. His picture by Miller hangs in the 

 Common Koom of Pembroke College, with an inscription below 

 by his friend Professor Goldwin Smith: — 



' Sic indefessum facie spirante vigorem 



Veri enitebar mente aperire viam 

 Cum vitm et vultds nimio lux victa labors est 

 et vestry abrepta est gloria magna domo.' 



A yet more striking memorial is the bust of him by Pinker, 

 presented to the University Museum by Mr. Henry Willett of 

 Brighton, and now placed in the spot which was the centre of 

 his working life, and where for time to come new students will 

 become familiar with the lines of a countenance never to be 

 mistaken for any other man's. 



