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library of Charles Darwin, which is carefully pre- 

 served at Cambridge, there is a copy of Jameson's 

 Manual of Mineralogy, published in 1821, which 

 was evidently used by the young student in his class- 

 work at Edinburgh. In this a quizzical fellow-student 

 has written 'Charles Darwin Esq., M.D., F.R.S.' 

 mischievously adding ' A.S.S.' ! Even for geology, 

 the science to which in all his after life he became so 

 deeply devoted, young Darwin conceived the most 

 violent aversion ; and as he listened to Jameson's 

 Wernerian outpourings at Salisbury Crags, he 

 ' determined never to attend to geology,' registering 

 the terrible vow ' never as long as I lived to read a 

 book on Geology, or in any way to study the science 96 .' 

 As it became evident that Charles Darwin would 

 never make a doctor, his father, after two years' trial, 

 sent him to Cambridge with the object of his 

 qualifying for a clergyman. But at Christ's College, 

 in that University, he again took his own line which 

 was not that of divinity riding, shooting and beetle- 

 hunting being his chief delights. Nevertheless, at 

 Cambridge as at Edinburgh, he seems to have shown 

 an appreciation for good and instructive society, and 

 in Henslow, the judicious and amiable Professor of 

 Botany, the young fellow found such sympathy and 

 kindly help that he came to be distinguished as ' the 

 man who walks with Henslow 97 / 



After achieving a 'pass degree/ Darwin went 

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