Sir Hubert Boyce. 



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confidence of men of business and affairs. He made the pursuit of science 

 intelligible to them in the same way as it was to himself. In council with 

 actual men of science he was less effective. His gifts appealed to them 

 less ; his little weaknesses were of a kind particularly evident to them. In 

 his earlier years he gave much promise as an investigator in scientific 

 pathology. In 1902 the Eoyal Society elected him a Fellow. But he was 

 already then too engrossed in organisation and administration to contribute 

 much further to original research. His work for the expansion of his 

 University and its School of Tropical Medicine absorbed him more and more. 

 They precluded concentration of his mind on other problems. Embarked 

 upon propagandism the temperament attaching to that shifted his mental key 

 unsuitably for the prosecution of exact research. His own interests often 

 suffered from his devotion to public business. His name should be remem- 

 bered as an apostle preaching the importance of applied science successfully 

 to the laity of his time. It will assuredly remain honoured in the 

 University he so devotedly helped to raise ; so also in that School of 

 Tropical Medicine which grew from his inspiration. That School's success 

 was the great aim and reward of all his later life. When the history of the 

 university movement in England at close of last century and beginning of 

 this comes to be written his should be a name of prominence in more than 

 one of its pages. In any history of the development of tropical medicine his 

 place as an organiser and a leader must be among the foremost in an epoch- 

 making time. C. S. S. (September, 1911). 



