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devoted much attention to the standardization of diphtheria anti- 
toxin ; and in 1897 he was awarded the Steward Prize of the 
British Medical Association. 
Tuberculosis was a subject which claimed much of his interest 
and attention, and his work in connection with the two Royal 
Commissions has already been referred to. Colonies for the 
tuberculous also intrigued him, and he was joint author with 
P. C. Jones Yarrier of “Village Settlements for the Tuberculous.” 
His activities were as varied as they were numerous. He was 
for many years President of both the British Medical Temperance 
Association and the British Temperance League, and, although a 
strong supporter of the temperance movement, was as broad-minded 
and tolerant in his outlook on the liquor question as he was on 
every other controversial subject. 
He was an Honorary LL.D. of Birmingham and Toronto 
Universities ; F.R.S. Edin. ; Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge ; 
Honorary Fellow of the Henry Phipps’ Institute, Philadelphia, of 
the Institute of Sanitary Engineers, and of the Institute of 
Hygiene ; Member of the Executive Committee of the Imperial 
Cancer Research Fund, an original and subsequently Honorary 
Member of Medical Research Club ; and Member of the Scottish 
Universities Committee. 
Professor Woodhead’s association with the Royal Microscopical 
Society dates from his election as a Fellow in 1911. He joined its 
Council in 1912, and became its President in 1913. In normal 
times he would have retired from the Presidential Chair at the 
beginning of 1915, but as the country was then in a state of war 
he consented to act for a third year, and there is no doubt that the 
Society benefited enormously by his comprehensive outlook and 
sound common sense during these trying early years of the war. 
His military duties, however, became so exacting that he w T as 
compelled to withdraw from any active participation in the Society 
for some years, but he rejoined the Council after the armistice, 
and was a Vice-President in 1920; but again the Society v r as 
deprived of his valuable services — this time, unhappily, on account 
of his ill-health. 
Whilst the energy and keenness brought to bear upon every 
aspect of his professional work by Sir German Sims Woodhead 
compelled admiration, his personal charm attracted all with whom 
he came into touch. Sympathetic and inspiring, none appealed to 
him in vain for help or advice, whether upon scientific or purely 
personal difficulties, and it is difficult to estimate which is the 
heavier loss to the community at large — that of the keen scientist 
or of the intensely human man. 
Sir German Sims Woodhead married, in 1881, Harriet 
Elizabeth St. Claire Irskine, second daughter of James Yates of 
Edinburgh, who survives him. 
