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Cornwall, the marine fauna and the fisheries of each were carefully 
contrasted with those of St Andrews, and many interesting observa- 
tions made. 
The city in which his generous gift was made was not slow to 
recognise his high purposes and liberality, for it conferred, in 1896, 
its freedom on him along with Lord Bute and General Robert Low 
of Clatto, the former the talented Rector of the University, the 
latter the distinguished Indian soldier, as indeed his father like- 
wise was. Dr Gatty also received the degree of LL.D. from the 
University for his lifelong labours in promoting science, and his 
special interest in Zoology. 
For some years his failing health prevented him journeying 
northward, but he attended the meetings of various societies in 
London, and kept himself abreast of all that was doing in Zoology. 
He also took great interest in Meteorology, especially towards the 
close of his life, when his eyes failed for microscopic work. Every 
morning he took the readings of his thermometers in the garden, 
registered the rainfall, read his barometers, and entered all 
methodically in a weather-chart, which was kept with the greatest 
accuracy and neatness ; indeed, his caligraphy was at all times a 
model of exactness. 
Lately the affection of the heart under which he laboured gave 
his friends some anxiety, and the end came somewhat suddenly 
on the 12th December 1903. The University Court, on receipt 
of the intelligence, entered the following resolution, prepared by 
Principal Donaldson, in their minutes of date 6th February 1904 : — 
u The University Court record their great regret at the decease of 
Dr Gatty, their sense of the great loss the University has sustained 
thereby, and their high appreciation of Dr Gatty’s acquaintance 
with and interest in Science, and of the great contribution which 
he munificently made to the study of it by the establishment of 
the Gatty Marine Laboratory in this University. The Court desire 
also to assure his executors that his name will ever be held in 
affectionate remembrance in St Andrews.” 
Personally, Dr Gatty was one of the most kindly and considerate 
men, courteous and self-possessed, ever ready to anticipate the 
wants of others, and though of a retiring and modest disposition, 
yet tenacious in his purposes of well-doing. Quiet, studious, and 
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