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FEW customs are gaining greater ground at the present day than that of making the death of any man who, by his energy or talents, has raised his name a little above that of the unknown crowd, a reason for opening a subscription and calling upon all his friends and admirers to tax themselves to found a memorial commemorative of his career. It is first decided that there shall be a memorial, and then the question usually arises as to the form that it shall take. It very often happens that some person or some institution has a need at hand. The prosperity of a school, and indirectly of all connected with it, will be promoted if it has scholarships attached to it which will attract needy students. A window is wanted to complete the ornamentation of a church. Those interested in the church or school eagerly seize upon the opportunity which the hand of death has afforded, and suggest a fitting method of bearing testimony to the memory of the departed. Such memorials generally, after a few years, retain wonderfully little personal connection with him they are supposed originally to honour. The name remains, but the person is forgotten, unless preserved in remembrance for other and more cogent reasons.
In Memoriam.
The Collected Scientific Papers of the late Alfred Henry Garrod. (London: R. H. Porter, 1881.)
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In Memoriam . Nature 24, 579 (1881). https://doi.org/10.1038/024579a0
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