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Dr. Norman was never much interested in the grades of 

 life above the Invertebrates, and cared little for the general 

 problems of physiology, heredity, evolution and the like. He 

 was content to end his work as he began it, in a careful and 

 painstaking study of specific characters and the inter- 

 relationship of these in founding genera and famihes, with 

 the result that the nation is richer by the acquisition of many 

 important specimens and in the knowledge of the wealth of 

 the Invertebrate Fauna aroinid our islands. But, as has 

 already been apparent his work has been the means of greatly 

 enlarging our knowledge as to the distribution of the animals 

 of the North Atlantic. He drew attention to the many 

 examples from different groups which were found from 

 Madeira and the Mediterranean to Norway, while others only 

 reached as far as the Channel and our south and west 

 coasts ; and he pointed to many forms which had a wide 

 range of depth. But the best testimony to his extensive 

 knowledge is the fact that there is scarcely a naturalist of a 

 younger generation who, in working at a marine group, has 

 not asked for his advice and help. They received the help 

 and advice together with encouragement, and a manifestation 

 of interest which showed how keenly he followed the labours 

 of others even when his active participation in the work had 

 come to an end. All who came in contact with him found 

 him a genial, sincere, earnest, and good-hearted man, loveable 

 and endearing. Professor Brady writes of him to me as " our 

 dear old friend Norman," and this he was to many of us. 



I have written altogether in this notice of his work as a 

 naturalist, but I may be allowed to add in conclusion, that in 

 his work as a minister, especially at Burnmoor where he was 

 Rector for nearly thirty years, his services were much 

 appreciated, and he was highly esteemed by the pitfolk who 

 constituted the greater part of his congregation. 



