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the south of Spain and the north of Germany, to islands in 

 the Baltic and to Texel. 



After thirty-five years of hard work he resigned his master- 

 ship in July 1914, when he hoped to realize the long deferred 

 project of a lifetime, a tour of observation to the Soudan 

 and other parts of the world, but it was not so to be. With 

 the outbreak of war he at once volunteered his services and 

 returned to Haileybury, resuming his work with the energy 

 of a man of half his 3'ears. Throughout the war he had no 

 holida5's. His spare moments in term-time were given to 

 work on the allotments of soldiers who were at the front, 

 while his holidays were spent at a Y.M.C.A. hut, but even 

 under these conditions he managed to finish the natural 

 history part of The Country Round Haileybury, a book now 

 ready for publication. There can be no doubt that he over- 

 taxed his strength, and it is no wonder, that when he left 

 Haileybury last July he felt war- weary. Writing to me in 

 August, he said : "I feel very tired and I am advised to 

 take a complete rest, but the best rest cure I can think of is 

 a month at Bardsey Lighthouse, watching migration." This 

 was the last time I heard from him, though a friend, with 

 whom he was staying just before he started for Bardsey, told 

 me he looked wretchedly ill ; but he was so tough and vigorous 

 that it came as a terrible shock when I heard that, after an 

 operation for some internal trouble, he had passed painlessly 

 away. 



In Headley were happily combined striking gifts of body, 

 mind and character, and he always used those gifts for the 

 good of others. He was the personification of energy, un- 

 selfishness and devotion to duty. Of no man can it be more 

 truly said that he " being dead yet speaketh " ; and we cannot 

 doubt that when he passed over the trumpet sounded for 

 him on the other side. — M. V. 



