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Obituary Notices of Felloivs deceased. 



celebration in Freiburg. " It is a perversion of the theory of evolution to 

 maintain, as many have done, that what is merely animal and brutal must 

 gain the victory. The contrary seems to me to be true, for in man it is the 

 spirit that rules and not the body." 



Note. — The material from which this brief account of Weismann's life has been written 

 has been almost entirely drawn from the four publications quoted below. I have tried 

 to express in my own words, and only rarely by a translation — and then with extreme 

 freedom — what I believe were "Weismann's thoughts about himself and his career. 

 I could not have attempted the work but for the kind help of my friends Prof, and 

 Mrs. "W. N. Parker and Mr. E. A. Elliott. 



The Obituary Notice in the 'Proceedings of the Linnean Society,' Session 127, 1914-15, 

 pp. 33-37, by Professor and Mrs. W. N. Parker. 



The Obituary Notice in 'Nature,' vol. 94, pp. 342-343, November 26, 1914, by 

 E. B. Poulton. 



' Akademisches Vademecum fur die Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat, Freiburg i. Br.,' 

 Herausgegeben von Hans Speyer. Freiburg i. Br., 1904. 



' Bericht iiber die Feier des 70 Geburtstages von August Weismann, am 17 Januar 1904, 

 in Freiburg i. Breisgau.' Jena, 1904. 



E. B. P. 



Sir WILLIAM TUKNER, K.C.B. (1832-1916). 



The death of Principal Turner has removed from the roll of the Society the 

 name of one who occupied for more than half-a-century a very prominent 

 place among anatomical teachers and medical legislators. 



Although so long associated with Edinburgh University, he was English 

 by birth, having been born in Lancaster in 1832. His father was in business 

 in that town, and died when his son was five years old. His mother (who was 

 a Scotswoman, maiden name Aldren) sent the boy to a private school in 

 Lancaster kept by Mr. Howard, and, when he was 16, apprenticed him to a 

 local surgeon, Christopher Johnson. From him he learned a little chemistry, 

 a subject in which he retained his interest all through his life. 



Two years later he began his more serious medical training at 

 St. Bartholomew's, where he obtained a scholarship. He attracted the 

 notice of Sir James Paget, then assistant surgeon, by his intelligence and 

 his interest in the study of pathology. Through him Turner made his first 

 public appearance, as in 1853 Paget communicated for him to the Eoyal 

 Society a paper on " The Examination of Cerebrospinal Fluid," which 

 showed a very considerable knowledge of chemistry. This was published 

 in 'Proceedings,' vol. 7, p. 89. In the same year he took honours 



