If we are asked for what we are most to honour Simpson, we answer, not so much for the discoveries he made, not for the instruments he invented, not for his exposure of numerous evils, not for the introduction of reforms, not for any particular contribution to science, literature, or archaeology; but rather for the inspiring life of the man looked at both in outline and in detail. He was guided by high ideals, and a joyous unhesitating belief that all good things were possible--that right must prevail. He was stimulated by a genius which, as has been pointed out, gave him the energy to fight for his ends with herculean strength. The fact that chloroform was by his efforts alone accepted as _the_ anaesthetic, and ether, which from the first was generally thought to be safer in ordinary hands, was deliberately put on one side practically all over the world, testified to his forcible and convincing method, and to his power of making others see as he saw. As a man of science alone, as a philanthropist alone, as a worker alone, as a reformer alone, he was great. But although to the popular mind he is known chiefly because of his introduction of chloroform, medical history will record him as greater because of his reforming genius, and will point to the fight for anaesthesia, and his crusade against hospitalism as the best of all that he accomplished or initiated. And he who, while making allowances for the weaknesses of human nature which were Simpson's, studies the life which was brought all too soon to a close, will recognise the great spirit which breathed through all his life. THE END. APPENDIX I. The following is a list of Sir James Simpson's contributions to _Archaeology_. His professional writings, in the form of contributions to the medical journals, or of papers read to various societies or meetings, number close upon two hundred. 1. "Antiquarian Notices of Leprosy and Leper Hospitals in Scotland and England." (Three papers read before the Medico-Chirurgical Society, March 3, 1841.) _Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal_, October, 1841, and January and April, 1842. 2. "Notice of Roman Practitioner's Medicine Stamp found near Tranent." Royal Society of Edinburgh; Dec. 16, 1850. 3. "Ancient Roman Medical Stamps." _Edinburgh Journal of Medical Science_, Jan., March, April, 1851. 4. "Was the Roman Army provided with any Medical Officers?" Edinburgh, 1851, private circulation. 5. "Notes on some Ancient Greek Medical Vases for containing Lykion; and on the modern use of the same in India." Edinburgh, 1856. 6. "Notice of the appearance of Syphilis in Scotland in the last years of the fifteenth century." 1860. 7. "Note on a Pictish Inscription in the Churchyard of St. Vigeans." Royal Society, April 6, 1863. 8. "Notes on some Scottish Magical Charm-Stones or Curing Stones." _Proceedings of Antiquarian Society of Scotland_, vol iv., 1868.