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summer, and had had no adequate rest. He returned to 
Edinburgh in October to prepare for his winter course, which 
started on November Ist. But after a week’s lecturing he 
broke down completely from weakness and an attack of fever, 
which soon showed symptoms of kidney trouble, and became 
rapidly worse, leading to his death a few days later. His 
old friend, Professor Hughes Bennett, who was with him to 
the last, in an obituary notice, states :—‘‘ A chronic disease 
contracted when in the Hast, re-excited and rendered violent 
by a severe cold caught last autumn, and which burst out 
with uncontrollable fury about ten days ago, was the immediate 
cause of his premature death.” 
In judging of the man it is important to bear in mind 
the dominating influence of his personality and conversation, 
quite apart from his publications. Few can now be alive 
who have held converse with him, but from remarks in the 
writings of his contemporaries we gain the impression of a 
genial and lively genius, with a free and independent spirit 
that roamed over a wide range in quest of knowledge and 
occupation. 
Although an ardent student, he was far from being the 
recluse or the typical absent-minded “ philosopher,” as the 
man of science was called in those days. Accomplished, and 
with high social gifts, he appreciated versatility and sportsman- 
like qualities in others, and he once stated (in an article on 
Sir Humphrey Davy’s “ Salmonia ’’) that he “ would undertake, 
without travelling far, to furnish philosophers, of various 
scientific callings, who could ride a race, hunt a fox, shoot 
a snipe, cast a fly, pull an oar, sing a song, or mix a bowl, 
against any man with unexercised brains, or even with none 
at all, in the United Kingdom.” Mixing of bowls has gone 
out of fashion in scientific circles, but with that exception, 
and with such additions as may have resulted from the develop- 
ments of sport and locomotion, the boast might be repeated 
of the “ philosophers”’ of the present generation. 
