The Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast

his scientific activities came to an end with his public duties. He had not been merely Professor of Pathology, but he had been responsible in the University for the teaching of bacteriology and medical jurisprudence. He had been pathol6gist to the Royal Victoria Hospital and to the Mater Infirmorum Hospital. He was for many years pathologist and bacteriologist to the City of Belfast. He had performed innumerable post-mortems, and he was often called upon in criminal cases as a witness for the prosecution,. where his precise and accurate evidence and his imperturbability under crossexamination made him an admired witness. All these activifies came to an end simultaneously, and there is little doubt that the sudden transition from a life full of varied and interesting activities to one of almost complete inactivity seriously affected his physical health. But it did not affect the natural acuteness of his mind, his remarkable memory, or his general intellectual interests. The poetry of Virgil, the most refined and humane of poets, had strong attraction for the humanity and refinement which were the chief notes of his own character, and he spent much time in careful study of the Aeneid. There were few works of importance in modern philosophical speculation which escaped his attention, and he read eagerly everything which he could find to help him to understand Plato. He was modest in expressing his own views upon such high questions, but he had pondered them long and earnestly, and seemed to have reached some inner certainty which gave to him the strength, the courage, and the serenity of mind that enabled him to bear the slow failure of his bodily powers and the increasing and almost constant pain which during his later years he had to endure. He married, in 1902, Miss Marion Latimer Macredie, whose constant and devoted care enabled him to bear the trials of his later years, and to her and their three daughters and son we offer our deepest sympathy.