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more of him. It is a real pleasure to me to know men, 

 especially young men, of this kind. I know by my 

 own feelings what benefit I should have got, if in my 

 undergraduate days I could have been acquainted with 

 anybody a good deal older than myself who would be 

 willing to help me. It will be his fault if he does not 

 avail himself of the chance.* 



The ugly rooms, the hard chairs, bitter coffee and 

 blazing gas do not make an attractive picture, it would 

 hardly be expected that men would go there again and 

 again, whenever they had the opportunity. It is the 

 fact, however, that the many people who have assisted 

 the present writer in his work have been unanimous in 

 bidding him not to forget " Newton's Sunday evenings," 

 and some of them have even said that they remembered 

 them with more pleasure than anything else in their 

 time at Cambridge. It is difficult, often impossible, 

 for most people in after years to remember who was 

 the person, if person there was, or what was the 

 occasion, that pointed out for them their line of life ; 

 but it may surely be said that many a career of 

 adventure or research could trace its origin to the Old 

 Lodge at Magdalene. 



It will not be considered unfitting to record here 

 the account written by a distinguished traveller and 

 naturalist, Dr. F. H. H. Guillemard of Gonville and 

 Caius College, of his friendship with the Professor, 

 which began when he was an undergraduate and 

 continued during nearly forty years. 



. . . When I returned to Cambridge from Lapland in 

 October, 1872, 1 attended Newton's lectures for the first 

 time. The manner of them has more than^ once been 

 described. They were, I think, on the anatomy of the 



* Letter to T. Southwell, February 27, 1891 



