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every department, whether in zoology, geography or geology, has been marked 

 by thoroughness and accuracy." 



But if Blanford's death has been a loss to science, it has been even greater 

 to his home circle and his many friends. Sound in judgment, free from 

 prejudices or any angularities, with a gentle courtesy of manner and a desire 

 to conciliate, nothing could make him depart from his own high standard of 

 honour or the path which his conscience approved. He was, in short, a man 

 emphatically to be trusted, for he exhibited in the daily work of life the calm 

 courage which had carried him through the difficulties, and sometimes the 

 dangers, of his earlier career, and while the last to seek his own advantage or 

 magnify his own work, he was the first to recognise merit in that of others 

 and ever ready to do them a service. 



T. G. B. 



THOMAS GEORGE BOND HOWES, 1853—1905. 



Thomas Geoege Bond Howes, more commonly known as George Bond Howes, 

 was brought up in his boyhood at a private school. His education proper 

 he would no doubt himself have attributed to Huxley, with whom he was 

 for many arduous years associated at the Normal School of Science and Royal 

 School of Mines as successively pupil, assistant demonstrator, and deputy 

 professor. To Huxley's person and memory he was ever devotedly attached, 

 and in 1895 he succeeded his celebrated master in the professorship of 

 zoology, the duties of which he had been in fact performing for the preceding 

 ten years. 



While still Demonstrator of Biology at the Normal School, and at the same 

 time Lecturer on Comparative Anatomy at the Medical School of St. George's 

 Hospital, Howes published, in 1885, 'An Atlas of Practical Elementary 

 Biology, with a Preface by Professor Huxley, P.R.S.' In this introductory 

 notice Huxley explains that in 1872 one of his first cares had been the 

 creation of a teaching collection for the use of his students, to contain, " in the 

 first place, a series of preparations and dissections illustrative of every 

 important fact in the structure of the animals and plants selected for study ; 

 and, in the second place, a corresponding series of drawings of the dissections, 

 of large size and executed in such a manner as to facilitate the comprehension 

 of the structures represented." In carrying out this important scheme, he 

 candidly adds, " the whole burden of the work has fallen upon my former 

 demonstrator, Mr. T. J. Parker (now Professor of Biology at Otago) and 

 Mr. George Howes, who succeeded Mr. Parker, and now holds the office." He 

 points out that, ' A Course of Practical Instruction in Elementary Biology,' 



