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it is contingent, it originates, it is modified, through circumstances, 

 aided by time, and through ages helped by scarcely-perceptible acci- 

 dents. In its turn, it insensibly leads the organs to become perfect in 

 the direction conformed to the use made of them by the animal. Re- 

 garded in this way, connected in the last analysis with other first prop- 

 erties from which it results, instinct, instead of baffling investigation 

 by the human mind, as they do, becomes a possible and proper object 

 of research by experimental science. It is a new horizon opening be- 

 fore the physiologist for the discovery of the laws of life. Revue des 

 Deux Mondes. 



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Professor Henslow. 



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JOHN STEPHENS HENSLOW is described as having been a 

 beautiful boy with brown curling hair, a fine straight nose, a 

 brilliant complexion, soft eyes, and a smile that reached everybody's 



1 The subject of the present sketch, who became an eminent clergyman, botanical pro- 

 fessor, and scientific philanthropist, was born in Kent, England, in 1796. For the prin- 

 cipal facts of the present article we are indebted to his biography by Rev. Leonard 

 Jenyns, Henslow's brother-in-law, published by Van Voorst, of LondoD, and we hare 

 made free use of his statements. Ed. 



