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Thomas Lauder Brunton. 



and his assistants by the cross-circulation experiment devised by Dr. G-askell 

 and performed by Dr. Shore ; a demonstration in which the present writer 

 took a subordinate part. Nevertheless, if the results in some respects 

 were doubtful, and in others needed re-interpretation, the whole problem 

 was raised to the plane of its eminent importance. 



It appears that, for some years past, from his intimate knowledge of the 

 German people, Brunton had foreseen their propensity, sooner or later, to 

 force a war upon this country. He feared, however, that we should never 

 submit to conscription, unless possibly in a crisis such as the present. Tor 

 this reason, and in furtherance of his scientific work on hygiene and 

 dietetics, he founded the National League for Physical Education and 

 Improvement, an organisation devoted to the nurture, from infancy upwards, 

 of a healthy, vigorous, and high-spirited people. The League, it is to be 

 hoped, is now so far established in the public favour and interest as to 

 survive the loss of its leader. The fulfilment of its purpose would be his 

 most signal memorial. 



By academic and official decorations Lauder Brunton was richly dis- 

 tinguished — he was knighted in 1900 and received a baronetcy in 1909 ; but 

 perhaps, in his loyal and patriotic heart, the honour of none of these was to 

 be compared with that of the devotion of his younger son, a promising 

 Cambridge medical graduate, who last year gave his life on the field of 

 battle for his country ; his " dearest pride," as he sought to make it, but 

 also a bereavement which, falling but a brief five years after Lady Brunton's 

 death, deepened the shadows of his latter days. Happily his elder son, also 

 on military service, and his devoted daughters were still spared to him. 



Brunton was happy both in his life and in his death, comforted in his 

 passing away by the respect and affection of all who knew him. Indeed, 

 no one could speak with him without being affected by his sweet, persuasive 

 enthusiasm, his keen intelligence, his gentle acceptance of all differences of 

 opinion, his frank, affectionate courtesy, and that faith in his art and in 

 mankind, which engendered a like faith and hope in those who only too 

 often sorely needed these consolations. 



C. A. 



