g inspiration to the friends of the next generation,
especially to the pupils and teaching lieutenants who worked in
close touch with him. His younger disciples always felt that in acute
criticism and vast learning nobody surpassed him; but what they yet
more admired than his learning was his wisdom. It was a delight to
read an essay fresh from his pen, but an ever so much higher delight
to hear him talk for five minutes. "His," says Professor Hubrecht,
"was the most beautiful and the most manly intellect I ever knew
of." The personal affection as well as admiration he inspired may be
gathered from Sir E. Ray Lankester's words: "There has been no man or
woman whom I have met in my journey through life whom I have loved
and regarded as I have him, and I feel that the world has shrunk
and become a poor thing now that his splendid spirit and delightful
presence are gone from it." And Professor Jeffery Parker concludes his
Recollections of his old chief with these words:--

Whether a professor is usually a hero to his demonstrator I
cannot say; I only know that, looking back across an interval
of many years and a distance of half the circumference of the
globe, I have never ceased to be impressed with the manliness
and sincerity of his character, his complete honesty of
purpose, his high moral standard, his scorn of everything mean
or shifty, his firm determination to speak what he held to be
truth at whatever cost of popularity. And for these things
"I loved the man, and do honour to his memory, on this side
idolatry, as much as any."

Indeed, his relations with his demonstrators were typical of his
judgment of men, his distinction between the essential and the
unessential, which made him a successful administrator.

To a new subordinate "The General," as he was always called,
was rather stern and exacting; but when once he was convinced
that his man was to be trusted, he practically let him
take his own course; never interfered in matters of detail,
accepted suggestions with the greatest courtesy and good
humour, and was always ready with a kindly and humorous word
of encouragement in times of difficulty. I was once grumbling
to him about how hard it was to carry on the work of the
laboratory through a long series of November fogs, "when
neither sun nor stars in many days appeared." "Never mind,
Parker," he said, instantly capping my q