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selves out of the misery which has hitherto been the lot of the majority 

 of them. Posthumous fame is not particularly attractive to me, but, if 

 I am to be remembered at all, I would rather it should be as 'a man who 

 did his best to help the people' than by any other title." 



It is not only because we, many of us, loved him as a friend, not only 

 because we all of us recognize him as a great naturalist, but also because 

 he was a great example to us all, a man who did his best to benefit the 

 people, that we are here to do honor to his memory to-day. 



