iv Obituary Notices of Fellows deceased. 



Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons, and in the following year the degree of 

 M.B. of the University of London. He never proceeded to the full doctorate. 

 He was not one who attached much weight to formal examination results. 

 Moreover, in later years he would go out of his way to tell friends that the 

 University system in force in the metropolis in his day had never given him 

 an alma mater. 



After obtaining his degree he became an assistant in the Pathological 

 Laboratory under Professor Victor Horsley, at University College. There 

 his energy and ability soon showed. In 1892 he was appointed Assistant- 

 Professor of Pathology. He contributed conspicuously to the large output of 

 research from the laboratory, and he issued a text-book of Morbid Histology, 

 a volume of 400 pages. The book was never very popular with students. It 

 was probably too original for them. Its preface stated that in it " little stress 

 was laid upon the ordinary methods of classification " ; it was also full of 

 excellent microphotographs, a class of illustration then novel of adoption for 

 such a purpose. 



In 1894 Boyce was appointed to the newly-endowed Chair of Pathology in 

 the young University College of Liverpool. He threw himself at once into 

 the task of organising a laboratory of scientific Pathology on modern lines. 

 His laboratory quickly became a centre for workers attracted by and sharing 

 his enthusiasm. Much valuable research issued from it. Greatly though his 

 laboratory absorbed him and flourished, problems concerning the University 

 College as a whole began to occupy him even as much or more. On the 

 College Senate he became a force urging towards development and expansion. 

 His activity in this direction soon passed beyond the immediate circle of the 

 Senate and its routine business. He embraced every opportunity, public or 

 private, to make his voice heard as a preacher of ampler University activity. 

 It was soon evident that he could make others, even those engaged in 

 pursuits seemingly alien and remote from his own, listen; he won their 

 sympathy and support. An early success he achieved may be cited as 

 illustrating his character and policy. In his view the College was de facto a 

 University ; he also realised that an immensely increased sphere for public 

 preventive medicine was at hand. He urged it as the duty of, and oppor- 

 tunity for, the College to take up vigorously forthwith the teaching of 

 hygiene, technically, practically, and yet scientifically, to all in the community 

 entering on its practice, even in its humbler aspects — sanitary inspectors, 

 meat inspectors, builders, and plumbers. To the academic body this did not 

 greatly appeal ; its apathy chilled Boyce little. Unsupported, he went out- 

 side to laymen ; to them he presented a scheme with convincing capacity 

 and persuasiveness. Almost at once he obtained the gift of two houses 

 adjoining the University College, their remodelling and equipment as a 

 laboratory and museum, and a subvention for their maintenance as such. 

 The Lord Mayor opened the School of Hygiene formally, and the University 

 College itself looked on with surprise at its own enrichment and the expansion 

 of its scope. This, Boyce's first appearance as a local public force, was 



