100 DR. EDWARD SCHUNCK. MEMOIR 



LL.D. was conferred on him by the University of Glasgow, 

 a distinction which, coming from his alma mater, the seat 

 of learning in his native town, he valued highly. The 

 same degree was awarded to him by the University of 

 Edinburgh in 1882. 



Dr. Smith's health had evidently been declining for 

 some years. Not endowed with a very robust constitution, 

 and unable, as it appeared to some, to take the amount of 

 sustenance required for so active an existence as his, the 

 great labours which were partly imposed on him, and 

 partly undertaken voluntarily, began in time to tell on his 

 health. To the entreaties of his friends to allow himself 

 some rest, he did not reply by a direct refusal, but con- 

 tinued to work on with unabated zeal, as if the stock of 

 vigour he had to draw on were inexhaustible. 



Various changes of scene were tried, but without effect, 

 and he gradually sank, the bodily strength declining, but 

 the mind remaining clear to the last. He died at Colwyn 

 Bay, in N. Wales, on the 12th May, 1884. His remains 

 were interred in the churchyard of St. Paul's, Kersal. 



This notice would not be complete without some refer- 

 ence to Smith's moral characteristics. To those who knew 

 him these were familiar, but those who come after us 

 should know that in his case an intellect of high order 

 was united to a character of the purest and noblest type. 

 The most marked trait in his character, it always seemed 

 to me, was a wide, to some it might seem an almost incon- 

 ceivably wide benevolence, a benevolence which seemed 

 capable of embracing all except the unworthy within its 

 folds. It was this that led him to associate with men of 

 the most diverse character and aims, extracting from each 

 specimen of humanity a something with which he could 

 sympathize, putting on one side or excusing what was 

 uncongenial to his nature in each, and establishing bonds. 



