TRIBUTEs. To HIS MEMORY. 301 One of his death-bed sayings was “you will probably meet in Senate and speak of my having died full of years and full of honours; but what does it signify? I should liko to see that ideal realised by my fellowmen for which I have lived and striven.' If the memorial that we can raisc in his honour be anywhere approaching the ideal and inspiring it, that alone would satisfy. It will be for the generations that come after us to take up the story of his life, and the greater story, I say deliberately, of his death inspired with the underlying thoughts that would go forth to the world, and the stories will be invaluable as national assets as few storics of life and death have boon. Yet in the conventional world in which wo live, honour to his memory requires not merely idealistic memorial like this but some that we can raise in plaster, stone, or with the aid of paint, or with the aid of scholarships or medals or prizes, poor substitutes as they may be. From that point of view, it is my melancholy privilege to propose that suitable steps be taken for raising such a memorial as will commend itself to those who will be charged with exccution of the work. Mr. Findlay Shirras has referred to his great services in connection with the formation of the scheme of agricultural and industrial studics. Hindu of Hindus as he was, and a Brahmin of Brahmins, one devoted lifelong to the classical side of cducation and to the purely scientific side also, he saw late in life that along with that which the University so long stood for, the question with which he came to identify himself in connection with agricultural and industrial studies must take its proper place. Whatever memorial
