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to the Hyacinths named after him was unbounded and we 

 cannot but be deeply moved by the little drawing of Galtonia 

 candicans which concludes his autobiography. 



Perhaps the most beneficent symptom of Galton's perennial 

 youth was the sympathy which he felt and delighted to express 

 with those who were beginning. There are, to our own personal 

 knowledge, many men who have not yet attained to half the age 

 at which Galton died and who have done and will do work of 

 the highest scientific value (in the most literal sense of the word 

 scientific), whose greatest and in some cases only encourage- 

 ment has been a kind word or line from the great man whose 

 death has deprived them of a true friend and science of a 

 noble servant. 



A. D. D. 



