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were frustrated for Avant of space : at the Royal Gardens, Kew, 

 he has been more successful, and the museums there owe much of 

 their admirable method of mounting, illustrating, and ticketing, 

 together with many valuable objects, to his unequalled talents for 

 such work. His practice throughout life was to give the best of every- 

 thing to public museums, and to retainduplicatea only for himself. 



" The Great Exhibition of 1851 deeply interested him, and there 

 were few departments of it with the contents of which he was not 

 perfectly familiar. To the succeeding Exhibition at Paris he 

 communicated a most beautiful series of Carpologieal illustrations, 

 which excited the enthusiasm of the Paris botanists, and of which a 

 duplicate set is now in the SouthKensington Museum ; where also 

 are sold his admirable botanical diagrams for schools, with a little 

 guide to their use, and his method of teaching botany in schools. 



" For a considerable period of his life he worked with zeal at 

 British antiquities, in which he became learned and expert, himself 

 opening several tumuli, the contents of which he described in two 

 tracts with illustrations. The fragments of glass, pottery, and 

 Samian ware from these and other quarters, some of very large 

 size, were all neatly and accurately restored by his own hands, 

 and the best presented to the museum of Colchester. 



" Every room of his large rectory, from hall to attic, presented a 

 marvellous assemblage of instructive objects of interest, beautifully 

 mounted with descriptive labels, to attempt conveying any idea of 

 which would be utterly hopeless ; besides botanical and zoological 

 specimens, economic, physiological and structural, without end, 

 there were series illustrating many important arts and manufac- 

 tures of savages and civilised beings, ancient and modern : linen, 

 cotton, shoes, hats, candles, glass, pottery, silk, &c., all beautifully 

 packed in boxes, and ready for use when needed. Eossils, anti- 

 quities, models of ships and machines, orreries, microscopes, wea- 

 pons, crystallographical series, and philosophical apparatus of all 

 kinds ; besides diagrams, drawings, and classified woodcuts, of 

 which he had literally thousands, mounted and instructively ar- 

 ranged in classes ; and all independent of his library and excellent 

 British entomological, conchological, and tertiary fossil collections. 

 Let it not be supposed that these were the miscellaneous hoard- 

 ings of a mere collector ; there was not one specimen that had not 

 attached to it its history, nor that was not obtained and mounted 

 for a purpose, and that was not in use at one or other of his fre- 

 quent lectures, or placed at the service of his scientific friends. 



"Tertiary geology and the recent changes of the earth's surface 



