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rare intervals. As the list of his contributions to learned periodicals 
shows, he continued to work strenuously at his subject, seeking in this 
way to gain relief, first from the grievous personal loss that had befallen 
him, and afterwards from a painful neuritic affection which laid hold of 
him in 1909, and slowly but inexorably tightened its grasp until the end. 
The evening of # his life w T as brightened by an interest that sprang 
directly from his own liberality. In 1910 he handed over to the University 
Court of the University of Edinburgh a substantial capital sum for the 
endowment of a permanent lectureship in anthropology and prehistoric 
archaeology. By a happy inspiration the Court invited the donor himself 
to be the first lecturer under the new foundation, and the vigour and 
freshness of the inaugural course which he delivered in 1912 are still vividly 
remembered by many. During the next year or two he watched with all 
a parent’s solicitude the development of the experiment he had initiated. 
It was a matter of peculiar satisfaction to him that his friend Professor 
Geikie should have been appointed his immediate successor. Similarly, he 
journeyed to Edinburgh in the early months of 1914 to welcome and 
entertain Mr D. G. Hogarth, the third Munro Lecturer. Then came the 
war, an incidental result of which was to postpone for six years the series 
which the Abbe Breuil had promised to deliver. The postponement was 
a great disappointment to Munro, who had been looking forward keenly 
to the visit of the distinguished French scholar, of whose work he had a 
high appreciation. 
And, when the Abbe did come to Scotland in 1921, the founder of the 
Lectureship was no longer alive to receive him. As early as 1916 his 
strength had been so seriously undermined that he took the gloomiest view 
of the future. But, despite much suffering, his splendid constitution and 
his determined will enabled him to hold out for four years more, and even to 
write, to lecture, and to publish in the interval. He died on 18th July 1920. 
when he was within three days of attaining the age of eighty-five. The 
last piece of work to which he set his hand was a short sketch of his 
own life, which was composed for the information of his closest friends, 
and which has since been printed for private circulation. From it not a 
little of the material for the foregoing notice has been drawn. It is a 
plain record of a strenuous and useful career, of real distinction achieved 
through native ability and steadfast concentration of purpose. Those who 
knew Munro can readily fill in the outline for themselves and colour it by 
their recollection of his frank sincerity, his genuine kindliness, his love of 
all good fellowship. 
