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life and commercial prosperity in tropical communities. These books found 

 an immediate sale. Of the former there have been three, of the latter two 

 editions. In January of the present year he published a third volume, 

 ' Yellow Fever and its Prevention ' ; this he dedicated to the late Sir Alfred 

 Jones, " whose vivid imagination and great grasp of affairs stimulated the 

 author to travel." Through these books and his other work Boyce's name, 

 it is not too much to say, has become familiar to every European in the 

 Tropics. The last completed of his projects was the formation, at Liverpool, 

 of the Bureau of Yellow Fever. He finished the first number of its 

 ' Bulletin,' and sent it to press only an hour before his final seizure. 



On May 2 of the present year, while on his way to attend a meeting in 

 London of the African Advisory Board, he was attacked with motor 

 aphasia and slight paralysis of the right side. He returned to Liverpool, 

 and, in the course of a few weeks, made considerable recovery. So soon 

 as he felt better, no arguments could induce him to rest or forego his 

 public calls. On June 7 he attended a banquet of the Tropical School 

 held to welcome back his old friend Prof. Todd of Montreal and the other 

 members of the Gambia Expedition, and to wish good-bye to Prof. Newstead, 

 then starting for Uganda. Boyce responded to the toast of " Tropical Medicine 

 and Commerce." A week later he had an apoplectic seizure ; he lost and 

 never regained consciousness ; on the 16th he died. 



He had married in 1901 Kate Ethel Johnston, a daughter of Mr. William 

 Johnston, shipowner, of Liverpool, a munificent benefactor to the University. 

 The Tropical School is housed in laboratories given by Mr. Johnston and 

 bearing his name. Boyce lost his wife a few days after the birth of their 

 only child, a daughter. 



The foregoing sketch will have indicated how much Sir Bubert Boyce 

 accomplished in the brief span permitted him. In 1906 he was created a 

 Knight Bachelor for his services to tropical medicine. In figure he was 

 small, fair, light, and active. He took a lively interest in arts of decoration 

 and design. His house contained interesting pieces of old furniture and a 

 large collection of fine Persian tiles. He entertained with wide hospitality 

 friends and visitors from all parts of the world. 



Strenuous, impetuous, sometimes intolerant of opposition, he had tact, 

 humour, and good nature as well as decision and shrewdness. His views were 

 bold and imaginative. Constantly obliged to work through committees, he 

 always remained somewhat rebellant against the delays inherent to that 

 system and procedure. Many of his most valuable and farthest reaching 

 steps on behalf of his University and the Tropical School were taken and 

 their business almost completed before his Committee had become formally 

 aware that he had moved. His methods frequently came as electric shocks to 

 those accustomed to ways more sedate. Financial obstacles seemed to present 

 no difficulty to him where he felt an aim desirable. His activity not rarely 

 exposed him to keen antagonism. He met this with various moods, but it 

 never troubled him much. He won with curious facility the sympathy and 



