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wanted some pieces of apparatus, of about the value of ;£^ioo, 

 I should very much like to be allowed to pay for it. Will 

 you be so kind as to keep this in mind, and if any want 

 should occur to you, I would send you a cheque at any time." 



I find from my father's accounts that ;^ioo was presented 

 to the Naples Station, 



He received also several tokens of respect and sympathy 

 of a more private character from various sources. With re- 

 gard to such incidents and to the estimation of the public 

 generally, his attitude may be illustrated by a passage from a 

 letter to Mr. Romanes : — * 



"You have indeed passed a most magnificent eulogium 

 upon me, and I wonder that you were not afraid of hearing 

 'oh ! oh ! ' or some other sign of disapprobation. Many per- 

 sons think that what I have done in science has been much 

 overrated, and I very often think so myself ; but my comfort 

 is that I have never consciously done anything to gain ap- 

 plause. Enough and too much about my dear self." 



Among such expressions of regard he valued very highly 

 the two photographic albums received from Germany and 

 Holland on his birthday, 1877. Herr Emil Rade of Miinster, 

 originated the idea of the German birthday gift, and under- 

 took the necessary arrangements. To him my father wrote 

 (February 16, 1877) : — 



" I hope that you will inform the one hundred and fifty- 

 four men of science, including some of the most highly hon- 

 oured names in the world, how grateful I am for their kind- 

 ness and generous sympathy in having sent me their photo- 

 graphs on my birthday." 



To Professor Haeckel he wrote (February 16, 1S77) : — 



*' The album has just arrived quite safe. It is most su- 

 perb. f It is by far the greatest honour which I have ever re- 



* The lecture referred to was given at the Dublin meeting of the Brit- 

 ish Association. 



f The album is magnificently bound and decorated with a beautifully- 

 illuminated title page, the work of an artist, Herr A. Fitger of Bremen, 

 who also contributed the dedicatory poem. 



