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THE meeting held last Saturday to establish a memorial to the late Prof. Balfour was very largely attended by all grades in the University, and among non-residents by Professors Huxley, H. J. S. Smith, A. W. Williamson, W. K. Parker, Ray Lankester, H. N. Moseley, and A. M. Marshall and Mr. George Griffith, of Harrow. The president of the Royal Society would have been present but for his recent accident. The speakers, including most of those mentioned above, and Professors Paget, Humphry, Newton, and Westcott, bore unanimous testimony to the high regard and affection in which the lamented professor was held, to the original work he had accomplished, and the high promise of his life, and to the energy and success of his teaching. Dr. Paget referred to Balfour's having abandoned his favourite pastime of deer-stalking in order not to inflict unnecessary suffering upon harmless animals, and his having taken up instead that of Alpine climbing, in which he met his death. Any memorial to him would, he hoped, do something to perpetuate the spirit in which his scientific achievements had been accomplished, which placed him beside such men as Miller, Sedgwick, and Clerk Maxwell. Mr. A. Sedgwick, late demonstrator with Balfour, spoke of the growth of the class in seven years from ten to ninety students, and of the crushing nature of his loss to the school he had attracted around him, for his personal intercourse and counsel was of the extremest value.
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The Late Professor Balfour . Nature 26, 631–632 (1882). https://doi.org/10.1038/026631a0
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