Sir Hubert Boyce. 



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No notice of Sydney Einger would be complete without reference to the 

 personal qualities which characterised him. His upright carriage, open, 

 frank countenance, and animated movements found their counterparts in 

 mental characteristics which were equally typical. In disposition he was the 

 most modest of men, and it was with difficulty that he was induced to allow 

 his name to be proposed for the Fellowship of the Eoyal Society, although 

 his friends were well aware that his selection would follow as a matter 

 of course. 



Although holding decided views on social and religious questions, he never 

 allowed them to be obtrusive. The generosity of his nature and the kindliness 

 of his disposition were exemplified in many ways, and in numerous instances 

 the persons whom he assisted never knew the name of their benefactor. 



He is laid to rest in the churchyard of Lastingham, at the edge of the 

 Yorkshire moors, by the side of his beloved wife and of a daughter, early lost 

 to them, in remembrance of whom her parents restored the beautiful old 

 village church. His memory is cherished by his friends and honoured by 

 physiologists throughout the world. 



E. A. S. 



SIE EUBEET BOYCE (1863—1911). 



The death of Sir Eubert Boyce in June last at the age of forty-eight 

 came as a shock to many. He was born on April 22, 1863, in London, 

 and London was his early home, but his parentage was Irish. His father, 

 Eobert Henry Boyce, of Carlow, was an engineer, at one time Principal 

 Surveyor of H.M. Diplomatic and Consular Buildings in China. His mother 

 was a daughter of Dr. Xeligan, a medical practitioner of eminence, in Athlone. 

 Boyce's trend toward natural science began early. Sent to a preparatory 

 school at Eugby, he there acquired a practical knowledge of botany, amplified 

 during his holidays in London by microscopic work with his parents' friend 

 Mr. Hurst, a member of the Quekett Microscopical Club and author of a 

 handbook on surveying. Later he was at school at Paris, where his aunt, 

 Miss Henrietta Boyce, was then resident. It seems that during his boyhood 

 he picked up knowledge of several handicrafts — carpentry, mason's work, 

 plumber's and glazier's fitting. To these latter he would turn on occasion in 

 after years as the nearest things to recreation not ennuyant to him. 



He entered on the study of medicine, his place of studentship being 

 University College, London. In 1888 he obtained the diplomas of the Eoyal 



