Henry George Plimmer. 



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placed his services at the disposal of the country, and was actively engaged 

 in various medical and scientific enquiries arising out oi the new conditions 

 imposed by the war. He was a member of the Tetanus and of the Trench 

 Fever Committees, and was strenuously engaged on researches connected 

 with the latter when he was stricken with mortal illness. He held on to his 

 work as long as it was humanly possible for him to do so, and it was a 

 source of great grief to him during his last days that he should not have 

 been spared to bring hiS investigations to the end, which seemed already in 

 sight. 



In 1887 Plimmer married Helena, widow of Alfred Aders, of Manchester. 

 He owed much to the stimulating devotion of his wife, who ever displayed 

 an active interest in all the many-sided activities of his life, for he was not 

 a scientific man only, but possessed an unusually extensive knowledge of 

 art, literature, and especially of music. As a musician, indeed, he was in 

 the very front rank in respect of his powers both of interpretation and 

 execution. But his intimate friends, whether scientific or otherwise, perhaps 

 will think of him most of all as a loyal and dear friend never to be forgotten, 

 and one of whom it may truly be said, in the words of the poet whom he loved 

 so well : — 



Non omnis moriar, imdtaqtie pars mei 

 Vitabit Lihitinam. . , . 



J. B. F. 



