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far from well, and he got leave of absence from Cambridge in the 

 Easter Term of 1909 for a prolonged tour round Continental centres 

 of zoology. Then he was persuaded to accept the Chair of Zoology 

 at the Imperial College of Science and Technology. He thought it a 

 duty to his science and to the Empire, but it was a bitter wrench to 

 him to leave his friends and take up life afresh. 



The task of creating a department concerned with the economic 

 developments of zoology was not really one after Sedgwick's own 

 heart. He clearly recognized that only the highest possible scientific 

 training, combined with considerably more than average intelligencei 

 is likely to produce capable economic zoologists. He desired to pro- 

 vide advanced economic courses of instruction, which might be used 

 by the graduates of all universities, but he found himself compelled 

 to provide the preliminary adequate scientific training also, thus 

 arousing considerable opposition. He found an admirable coadjutor 

 in his former demonstrator, E. W. MacBride, who gave up his Chair 

 at Montreal to serve under his old master. C. C. Dobell accompanied 

 him from Trinity College as Lecturer on Protozoology, while addi- 

 tional special courses were instituted in Embryology under E. 

 Assheton, Fisheries under Dr. Allen, and Entomology. The last 

 resulted, in 1912, in the foundation of a Professorship of Entomology, 

 the second in the Empire, to which H. M. Lefroy was appointed. 

 Sedgwick whole-heartedly gave the last years of his life to the 

 Imperial College, a foundation to be judged some day by its results. 

 The writer believes that Sedgwick's work in this connection will 

 endure to the advantage of the nation, of the science he loved, and 

 also of kindred institutions. 



As a lecturer, Sedgwick was handicapped by a somewhat halting 

 delivery, in strong contrast to the simple vigour and directness of his 

 subject-matter, which was easily understood and appreciated. He 

 showed a delightful sympathy and absence of constraint when dealing 

 with his students ; in relation to his staff, he was in theory an 

 autocrat, but in practice a socialist. He believed that a department 

 should be staffed by men, each one of whom should be researching 

 on a different branch of the science. He was curiously averse to the 

 encroachment of the devotees of one biological science on another, 

 but he always recognized that a time would come when all biology 

 would have to be considered as one science — when the debateable 

 border-lines between zoology, physiology, and biochemistry would 

 become the most happy hunting grounds for the combination of 

 researchers from each. Meantime, possibly his very loyalty to the 



