Abstract
HENRY BROUGHAM GUPPY, who died at Martinique on April 23 on the voyage home from Tahiti, began work at a time when a medical training was the usual method of approach to a scientific career. Like other eminent naturalists, he started that career as a surgeon in Her Majesty's Navy. But the inspiration of the islands of the great oceans remained throughout his life as the directing force of his painstaking investigations of the problems relating especially to geographical distribution which they suggested.
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