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  Obituary 
  Notices 
  of 
  Fellows 
  deceased. 
  

  

  questions, 
  especially, 
  those 
  of 
  female 
  suffrage 
  and 
  temperance, 
  of 
  which 
  he 
  

   became 
  the 
  great 
  protagonist. 
  Had 
  he 
  lived 
  he 
  would 
  have 
  seen 
  many 
  

   of 
  the 
  reforms 
  he 
  was 
  pressing 
  already 
  adopted. 
  This 
  only 
  shows 
  how 
  

   inestimable 
  a 
  benefit 
  to 
  others 
  it 
  is 
  that 
  some 
  men 
  should 
  think 
  differently 
  

   and 
  act 
  differently 
  to 
  accepted 
  customs 
  and 
  traditions. 
  

  

  In 
  1909 
  Sir 
  Victor 
  delivered 
  the 
  Linacre 
  Lecture 
  upon 
  " 
  The 
  Function 
  

   of 
  the 
  so-called 
  Motor 
  Area 
  of 
  the 
  Brain." 
  This 
  is 
  generally 
  considered 
  

   the 
  most 
  philosophical 
  of 
  all 
  Horsley's 
  writings, 
  because 
  it 
  is 
  enriched 
  by 
  

   twenty-three 
  years' 
  unrivalled 
  experience 
  of 
  a 
  physiologist, 
  pathologist, 
  and 
  

   surgeon, 
  and 
  by 
  the 
  description 
  of 
  a 
  case 
  upon 
  which 
  he 
  had 
  operated 
  and 
  

   was 
  able 
  to 
  show, 
  as 
  a 
  result 
  of 
  the 
  operation, 
  that 
  the 
  Gyrus 
  pre-centralis 
  

   in 
  man 
  is 
  the 
  seat 
  of 
  representation 
  of 
  : 
  (1) 
  slight 
  tactility, 
  (2) 
  topognosis, 
  

   (3) 
  muscular 
  sense, 
  (4) 
  arthric 
  sense, 
  (5) 
  stereognosis, 
  (6) 
  pain, 
  and 
  (7) 
  

   movement. 
  

  

  Some 
  of 
  the 
  scientific 
  honours 
  bestowed 
  upon 
  Sir 
  Victor 
  Horsley 
  were 
  : 
  — 
  

   The 
  Eoyal 
  Medal, 
  1894 
  ; 
  M. 
  D. 
  Halle, 
  1894; 
  Foreign 
  Associate 
  of 
  the 
  French 
  

   Academy 
  of 
  Medicine, 
  1910 
  ; 
  Member 
  of 
  the 
  Eoyal 
  Prussian 
  Academy 
  of 
  

   Medicine, 
  1910 
  ; 
  the 
  Lannelongue 
  Prize 
  and 
  Gold 
  Medal, 
  1911 
  ; 
  Member 
  

   of 
  Eoyal 
  Society 
  of 
  Upsala, 
  in 
  succession 
  to 
  Lord 
  Lister, 
  1912. 
  

  

  His 
  publications, 
  individual 
  and 
  combined, 
  number 
  129, 
  of 
  which 
  quite 
  

   30 
  are 
  of 
  outstanding 
  importance 
  to 
  science. 
  

  

  Sir 
  Victor's 
  intention 
  was 
  to 
  enter 
  Parliament 
  where, 
  owing 
  to 
  his 
  courage, 
  

   indomitable 
  energy, 
  and 
  medical 
  knowledge 
  and 
  experience 
  in 
  its 
  widest 
  

   sense, 
  he 
  would 
  have 
  been 
  of 
  immense 
  help 
  to 
  the 
  Ministry 
  of 
  Health. 
  But 
  

   it 
  was 
  ordained 
  otherwise 
  — 
  he 
  went 
  on 
  another 
  crusade, 
  as 
  surgeon 
  in 
  the 
  

   B.A.M.C., 
  first 
  in 
  Egypt 
  then 
  in 
  Mesopotamia 
  — 
  the 
  stirring 
  work 
  he 
  did 
  

   in 
  the 
  army 
  is 
  well 
  recorded 
  in 
  his 
  letters 
  home, 
  and 
  his 
  death 
  from 
  heat- 
  

   stroke 
  at 
  the 
  age 
  of 
  59 
  (July, 
  1916), 
  unfortunately 
  ended 
  the 
  career 
  of 
  one 
  

   of 
  the 
  greatest 
  surgeons 
  and 
  scientists 
  England 
  has 
  produced 
  — 
  his 
  loss 
  

   irreparable 
  to 
  those 
  who, 
  like 
  myself, 
  had 
  the 
  privilege 
  of 
  a 
  long 
  and 
  

   unbroken 
  friendship 
  — 
  and 
  we 
  hope 
  that 
  now 
  his 
  numerous 
  friends 
  and 
  

   admirers 
  will 
  help 
  us 
  in 
  the 
  founding 
  of 
  a 
  memorial 
  lectureship 
  bearing 
  

   his 
  name. 
  

  

  F. 
  W. 
  M. 
  

  

  