DEATH OF PEOFESSOR ROLLESTON.

Evening Post, Volume XXII, Issue 48, 26 August 1881, Page 3

DEATH OF PEOFESSOR ROLLESTON.

• We regret to learn of the death of Professor Kolleston, brother of the Hon. the Native Minister. The deoeased gentleman was one of the moat eminent scientific men of tho day, and his death i 8 reforred to by the Speotator of 28rd June, in the following terms :— " The death, on Thursday week, of Dr. George Bolleston. Linaore Professor of Physiology at Oxford, in his fifty-second year, was a shock to the University, and a great grief to a large circle of warmly attached friends. Dr. Rolleston took a firstolass in classics in 1850 ; it was only later that he devoted himself to the study of medicine and biology. Trained at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, he went to Smyrna during tho Crimean war as assistantphysician to the British Civil Hospital, returning in 1857 to Oxford, where he filled successively various high offices in the University and was one of tbe ablest of tho members of the University Council. He was not only learned in biology and palaeontology, bnt was a speaker of great force and no little fire, and possessed much of the general fascination of trne genius. To hi 3 other great gifts, Dr. Bolleston added a warm humanity, which made hi 3 ovidence given before the Boyal Commission on Vivisection some of the most impresßive testimony given as to the dangerous moral tendencies involved in the growing cravings of scientific curiosity. The vividness of his conversation and the largeness and depth of his moral nature, make the moral blank which his early death ha=i caused as painful as the intellectual gap will be difficult to fill. Truly did the Pub io Orator describe him on Wednesday, at Commemorat on, as, ' Virum^ excnltiasimi in genii, integritatis incorruptiasimffl, veritatis amioum, et propugnatorem aoerbum.' He was as stern a champion as he was an ardent devotee of truth." We further learn from " Men of the Time " that tho late Professor was born 30th July, 1829, at Maltby, Yorkshire, and was consequently abont 52 ears of aero at the time of his death. He was elected a Fellow of the Boyal Society in 1862, and was the author of " Report on Smyrna," 1865 ; " Forms of Animal life," 1870; and the Harveian Oration, 1873.