spell of last November he was seized with influenza it left him with a heart so affected that there was from the first little hope that he would regain full health and activity. In 1895 he married Alice Mary, only daughter of the late C. W. Bunting, of Toronto. The widow, a son, and a daughter survive him. Lieutenant-Colonel J. G. Adami, F. R. S., of the Office of the Director of Medical Service, Canadian Expeditionary Force, writes: 11 The death of Harry Yates comes as a big blow to many far

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... tside of medical circles, for he was a man of many friends. To the majority of medical men who knew him it is only the war that has brought a revelation of his sterling qualities over and above the social gifts with which he was eminently endowed. Belonging to a well-to-do family, and enjoying to the full a boyhood at Charterhouse, followed by pleasant years at Jesus, Cambridge, when that good old College was supreme on the river and in every order of sport, he never made a pretence of scholarship, and seemed to have turned to medicine purely from the desire to have some more serious object in life. My late colleague, Wyatt Johnston, and I encouraged him to take up bacteriology largely because of our personal liking for him, and because in the earlynineties demonstrators who demanded no stipend and were likely to remain attached to the department were few and far between. When appointed he showed himself an excellent laboratory teacher, and, what is more, a splendid organiser of practical classes. Thus, despite the criticisms of those who knew him only as a leader of the social world in Montreal, he remained attached to my department for many years.