Professor J. W. Judd, O.B. 393 



•first to introduce into the academic curriculum systematic practical 

 instruction in the subject, and of the many excellent courses in 

 geology now open to students in various parts of the world, not 

 a few are based, wholly or in part, upon the methods originated 

 by him and carried out so ably and for so many years in the Royal 

 ■College of Science. 



" Throughout his career as a teacher of science Professor Judd has 

 been an enthusiastic advocate of the system employed in the Royal 

 College of Science of enabling the student to concentrate his whole 

 attention upon one subject at a time, instead of requiring him to study 

 several different and not necessarily cognate subjects simultaneously. 

 He has also strongly upheld the principle of making practical 

 teaching in the laboratoi'y strictly sequential to, and directly illus- 

 ti-ative of, the lectures. In his own department, whenever possible, 

 the laboratory work has been arranged as an immediate extension 

 of the lectures, in which the student has had an opportunity of 

 examining systematically and illustrating experimentally such data 

 and principles of the subject as are capable of exemplification in this 

 manner ; and it is doubtless to this excellent system of simultaneous 

 theoretical and practical woi'k that the very real knowledge of their 

 subject which has characterized such a large proportion of his pupils 

 has been mainly due. Another feature which has determined the 

 success of Prof. Judd's teaching is his freedom from conservativism : 

 if the advances made in his subject or in any branch of it have 

 pointed to the desirability of changes in the method of its presentation 

 to the student, he has never shrunk from the abandonment of 

 methods already adopted or fi'om such wholesale reconstruction of 

 his courses as may have seemed necessary to bring them into touch 

 with the most recent views. 



" The relations between Professor Judd and his students have always 

 been of the pleasantest and most cordial kind. He has invariably 

 taken a keen personal interest in all who have come under his 

 charge, and has always been ready to help and advise them, not 

 •only in their geological studies, but also in all matters connected 

 with their college life and their future career. He was constantly 

 invited to act as an officer of the many clubs and societies of the 

 college, and in such a capacity always set an excellent example to 

 those associated with him by the very conscientious manner in which 

 he performed the duties which his acceptance of office entailed, 

 notwithstanding his very heavy duties as Professor and Dean. These 

 and many other traits endeared him to the students, among whom he 

 was very popular, and by whom he was regarded with great respect 

 and esteem. It must be a constant source of pleasure to him to feel 

 that the many hundreds of students who have passed through his 

 hands, and who are now distributed all over the world, will always 

 entertain the pleasantest recollections of their association with him; 

 they will learn with regret that he has relinquished the post which 

 he has filled so long and honourably." 



