IN MEMORIAM 
PROFESSOR NOCARD 
'"pHE workers in the Thompson Yates and Johnston Laboratories have 
bitterly felt the loss or Professor Nocard. Early in May of this 
year he was with us taking an active part in the inauguration of 
the new Research Laboratories of Bio-Chemistry, Cancer Research, Tropical 
Medicine, and Comparative Pathology. In that short time he won the 
friendship and esteem of not only all those in the Laboratories, but of a 
very large group of citizens, including scientific and medical men, and the 
leaders of commerce in this great Port. Very remarkable was the power 
which he possessed of attracting men and making them appreciate the 
claims of science. Upon the two occasions on which he addressed us in 
public he spoke in French, and his words were so simple and flowed so 
clearly and without hesitation that never were speeches in a foreign tongue 
so readily grasped and received with such unmistakable enthusiasm. 
During the few days he was in Liverpool he accomplished much. 
What seemed most to strike him was the co-operation of the merchant 
with the science man. The leading citizens were at all the gatherings ; it 
was they who had showed their confidence in the future of science by 
erecting and liberally endowing these magnificent laboratories. The 
Chairman at each Banquet at which he spoke was a citizen who had given 
both of his wealth and of his time to further education. Nocard seized 
upon the occasion and utilized it. He pointed out how, in this respect, we 
appeared to be in advance of his country. He pointed out the immense 
gain of such a union to national prosperity, and he took the success of the 
foundation of the Tropical School of research as one of the most striking 
illustrations of this. He showed how progress in a great part of our vast 
colonial empire was impeded through disease, and he repeated the words 
of Livingstone, that the tsetse fly was the greatest obstacle to civilization 
in Africa. He demonstrated that the power to curtail and eradicate these 
diseases lay within our grasp, and that already medical research had 
abundantly proved this. One of the greatest proofs was now the loyal and 
unstinted support of the citizens, but he emphasized that still greater efforts 
were necessary, and that the givers had nothing to fear but much to gain 
from a scientific alliance. He gave us an illustration of this, and in doing 
