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They counted on seeing his genial presence among them 

 after a short interval. 



When he left the city, he looked forward with eager- 

 ness to taking up his abode in the great Metropolis, not 

 only on account of the surgical aid he counted on, but 

 also by reason of the numerous general advantages 

 which the culture, art and science of the world's capital 

 afforded. Among others residing therein whose society 

 he specially valued was the friend and companion of his 

 youth, Dr. Crozier, formerly of Gait, Ontario, the emi- 

 nent philosophic-litterateur, and then his quondam 

 colleague and distinguished friend, Sir William Osier, of 

 Oxford, was within easy reach of London. In close in- 

 tercourse with these and other men of learning, of artistic 

 and of scientific eminence, he expected to spend many 

 happy days ; but it was not to be : he was cut off on the 

 15th day of February, 1915, within a week of the com- 

 pletion of his 68th year. 



On March 6th, 1915, the Faculty of Medicine of Mc- 

 Gill University, adopted the following resolution on the 

 death of Prof. T. Wesley Mills : 



' ' That the members of the Faculty of Medicine desire 

 to place on record an expression of their sincere regret 

 at the death of their former colleague, Professor J. Wes- 

 ley Mills. 



"Prof. Mills had been associated with the teaching 

 staff of the Medical Faculty of McGill University for 

 more than thirty years, first as Demonstrator in 1882, 

 then as Lecturer, and from 1886 to 1910 as Professor of 

 Physiology. From the time of his resignation he has 

 "been Professor Emeritus. 



"He had taken part in the extraordinary develop- 

 ment of the Faculty in all its branches and at a time 

 when none of its members were active writers he had 

 brought credit to the Faculty by his textbooks upon 

 Animal Physiology and Comparative Physiology. 



' ' It was hoped that with his liberation from the bur- 



