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Notes on Portrait-plates 
The writer would cite the following nine sources of information, having 
consulted all but one (No. 5) for the purpose of this notice. 1. (1866), Photo¬ 
graphs of Eminent Medical Men of all Countries with brief Analytical Notes 
of their Works , edited by W. T. Robertson (London: Churchill), n. 77-81; 
this contains a brief biography, a list of publications up to 1865, and a photo¬ 
graph of that date. 2. Anonymous author (vi. 1881), The Biograph and Review, 
London, v. 578-581. 3. Anonymous author (1. iii. 1884), Midland Medical 
Miscellany (Provincial Medical Journal ); contains a short sketch and litho¬ 
graphed portrait. 4. Duckworth (iii. 1886), The Lancet, i. 616. 5. (1886), The 
Veterinarian, xxxn. 297. 6. Proc. Roy. Soc. xlvii. p. iv. 7. (1887), Contem¬ 
porary Medical Men, edited by Leyland, 4°, Leicester, with lithographed por¬ 
trait and bibliography; contains a good biography amplified from that cited 
under No. 3; Reprint 11 pp. The best appreciation of Cobbold’s scientific 
work is that of Brumpt (1900), Arch, de Parasitol. in. 163-176; with biblio¬ 
graphy; portrait and facsimile signature reproduced from source No. 3 above 
quoted. 9. Stiles and Hassall (1903), Index Catal. of Med. and Veter. Zool. 
pp. 266 - 281 . 
Our portrait is reproduced from a photograph, taken in 1884, for which his 
son and daughters have expressed a preference. 
In conclusion, I have much pleasure in acknowledging the kind help I have 
received from the late Prof. Cobbold’s son and daughters, namely Dr C. Spencer 
Cobbold of Bath and the Misses Cobbold of Worthing, who have generously 
presented to our Parasitological Library in Cambridge three bound volumes of 
Cobbold’s printed papers and mss (gift of Dr Cobbold), original drawings, 
copies of most of the biographies above cited, and prints of the three portraits 
to which reference has been made under sources of information Nos. 1-9 
(gift of the Misses Cobbold). The bound volumes were Cobbold’s private copies 
and they contain notes by him. These mementoes of the great helminthologist 
have found a fitting place in the library of the first Institute of Parasitology 
to be established in England, and nowhere could they be more appreciated. 
