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Society/' whose common aim is marine research. 

 He liked to feel he was helping forward research 

 and bringing kindred interests together by enter- 

 taining us at one of his London Clubs, before the 

 scientific Papers were presented, the reading of 

 which was at times a little delayed by his abun- 

 dant cheer. 



He never spared himself, and when he was 

 approaching his seventieth birthday he embarked 

 on the " Michael Sars," a steamer no bigger than 

 an ordinary fishing trawler, with a gross tonnage 

 of 226 and with but 300 h.p. engines, to cross the 

 Atlantic on a scientific expedition the profoundly 

 important results of which he published in col- 

 laboration with Dr. Johan Hjort in the well- 

 known book, " The Depths of the Ocean." He 

 was very capable of getting on terms with the 

 sailor-men, and had a thorough knowledge of the 

 sailor's mode of life and the sailor's point of view, 

 and, it may perhaps be mentioned, of the sailor's 

 vocabulary. Although he became seventy-three 

 a few days before the final tragedy, he seemed, 

 and was in fact, a much younger man, " good 

 for at least, another ten years" as a leading 

 physician, who knew him well, remarked to me 

 some weeks ago. 



