y or ill; and he
was absolutely faithful and generous in his love.

After his mother came to live in Cambridge I believe he hardly ever
missed a day in going to see her, even though he might only be able to
stay a few minutes. She lived at some distance off, and he was often
both busy and tired. This constancy was very characteristic. It was
shown once more in his many visits to Jim Harradine, the marker at the
tennis court, on what proved to be his death-bed.

His energy and his kindness of heart were shown in many cases of
distress. For instance, a guard on the Great Northern Railway was robbed
of his savings by an absconding solicitor, and George succeeded in
collecting some 300 pounds for him. In later years, when his friend the
guard became bedridden, George often went to see him. Another man whom
he befriended was a one-legged man at Balsham, whom he happened to notice
in bicycling past. He took the trouble to see the village authorities,
and succeeded in sending the man to London to be fitted with an
artificial leg.

In these and similar cases there was always the touch of personal
sympathy. For instance, he pensioned the widow of his gardener, and he
often made the payment of her weekly allowance the excuse for a visit.

In another sort of charity he was equally kindhearted, viz., in answering
the people who wrote foolish letters to him on scientific subjects--and
here as in many points he resembled his father.

His sister, Mrs. Litchfield, has truly said {190} of George, that he
inherited his father's power of work and much of his "cordiality and
warmth of nature, with a characteristic power of helping others." He
resembled his father in another quality, that of modesty. His friend and
pupil, Professor E. W. Brown, writes:

He was always modest about the importance of his researches. He
would often wonder whether the results were worth the labour they had
cost him, and whether he would have been better employed in some
other way.

His nephew Bernard, speaking of George's way of taking pains to be
friendly and forthcoming to anyone with whom he came in contact, says:

He was ready to take other people's pleasantness and politeness at
its apparent value and not to discount it. If they seemed glad to
see him, he believed that they _were_ glad. If he liked somebody, he
believed that the somebody liked him, and did not worry himself by
wondering whether t