It is no easy task to re-create the zest and
enthusiasm, the joyous plenitude, the scientific .acumen, and the quiet con- centration which go to the making of a personality at once so spirited and poised as Dr. Adami's. Mrs. Adami, with loving detachment and elimination of unessentials, has given us at once a portrait and a record in J. George Adami (Constable, 10s. 6d.). After a distinguished career at Cambridge, Adami was appointed in 1892 Professor of Pathology at the McGill University. In twenty-two years he built up a famous school, secured funds, founded the library, reorganized the medical museum, and published his epoch-making text-book on Pathology. The offer of the Chair of Pathology at Cambridge marked him as a leading pathologist. For the sake of his family he refused it, but in 1915 with characteristic zeal he plunged into the War, drilled, became Colonel, and as Director of the Canadian Medical Service did invaluable work for his country. Later he was responsible for the Canadian Medical History of the War. In 1919 he accepted the Vice-chancellor- ship of Liverpool University. Two and a half years before his death he knew he was dying of an incurable disease, and he faced the inevitable end as he had faced life, with gay and gallant courage. Such lives of civic and scientific usefulness often pass unremarked, for, by their very efficiency and success, they rule out all comment and self-advertisement.
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