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an inner harmonizing activity between them, of which they 

 are so to speak the expressions, and in which they are 

 included '. In such a faith he finds a common justification 

 for the laborious investigations of the man of science and for 

 the speculative efforts of the philosopher. Herein, too, for 

 both of them, lies the secret of happiness if they be content 

 to ' strive and hold cheap the strain ; learn, nor account the 

 pang ; dare, never grudge the throe '. So Jenkinson himself 

 strove and iearnt and dared, and no one who knew him can 

 doubt that he lived and died happy. 



The time at length came when, his course of the humanities 

 accomplished, he must qualify for that scientific career on 

 which he had set his heart. The omens were by no means 

 propitious. As a schoolboy at Bradfield he had botanized 

 with zeal, some of his finds being recorded in Druce's Flora 

 of Berkshire. At Oxford, again, though as Scholar of Exeter 

 he had taken the usual classical schools, he was allowed, as 

 has been mentioned, to attend a few biological classes by way 

 of an intellectual luxury. Such being his entire record as 

 a student of science, he must evidently start from the very 

 bottom of the ladder as regards the special instruction in 

 biology which he now required. Nor can it be said that Oxford 

 makes adequate provision in the way of endowments for 

 those who, having obtained an education in general culture, 

 seek after graduation a technical training in some particular 

 branch of learning or research. 



Jenkinson, however, was the last man to be turned aside 

 from an ideal aim by material considerations. Working hard 

 and spending little, he studied zoology for some time at 

 University College, London, under the late Professor Weldon. 

 In the latter he found a kindred spirit a man whose whole 

 nature found its satisfaction in the pursuit of knowledge. 

 And so he continued, immersed in research, and, as his letters 

 to his friends at Oxford showed, perfectly happy in his 

 chosen vocation, until at length he was appointed to the 



