Adam Sedgwick. 



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was Sedgwick, and to all who knew him and loved him his death is an 

 irreparable loss. His very weaknesses endeared him to his pupils when they 

 came to be regarded as symbols of his personality. He had a hasty temper 

 which used to relieve itself in somewhat violent language with a plentiful 

 admixture of expletives — but the storm was over almost as soon as it arose, 

 and the expletives left no sting behind ; indeed, they were gleefully repeated 

 and with embellishments served as the basis of a number of Cambridge 

 legends. 



Nothing caused more secret gnawing apprehension to his closest friends 

 than the disappearance of these ebullitions ; they felt as if the old Sedgwick 

 were slipping away from them, and this proved only too true. 



Sedgwick's memory will live for ever in the zoological school at Cambridge, 

 which, though founded by the genius of Balfour, was built up to its leading 

 position by Sedgwick's efforts. Whether the school he founded in the 

 Imperial College will be equally successful remains to be seen, but his 

 memory and example will serve as an inspiration to all those who were 

 brought into contact with him there. 



E. W. M. 



