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Avere made to our collections by purchase, and treasures were 

 poured into it almost daily by zealous members of the University 

 and by other friends. But he was never confined to the mere 

 drudgery of arrangement. Not merely with my consent, but with 

 my encouragement, he devoted himself to elaborate studies of 

 those parts of palaeontology to which he had not previously 

 attended. 



" He was, I believe, the first discoverer of the bones of birds in 

 the Upper G-reensand of Cambridge. He added many new species, 

 especially to the fossil reptiles of the same formation. He proved, 

 in a published paper, that the atlas and axis of the Plesiosaurtis 

 are sometimes anchylosed and sometimes free — a point previously 

 in dispute. He made out, with much skill, the leading peculiarities 

 in the skeleton of the Pterodactyle ; and he drew up an excellent 

 geological map of the county near Cambridge. But I must for- 

 bear ; I cannot here describe, I can only allude to, the labours of 

 our lamented young friend in the Cambridge Museum. I never 

 attempted to thwart so bright and skilful a workman. I encour- 

 aged him to follow the bent of his own genius ; and our Museum 

 greatly profited by this liberty. 



" He earnestly longed to conduct a series of deep dredgings in 

 some Arctic sea out of the disturbing influence of any warm 

 current from the south ; and fixed on the Danish settlements in 

 Baffin's Bay, and the western coast of Greenland, as the proper 

 places from which to commence a new set of experiments. 



" Such a voyage implied a long absence from Cambridge ; but I 

 did not object to it ; on the contrary, I gave such help as was 

 within my power to this spirited undertaking. He embarked for 

 Copenhagen in May 1856, hoping to have a passage in the first 

 trader that started on the summer voyage to the settlements in 

 Baffin's Bay. By a providential accident, which detained him 

 some days at Copenhagen, he missed a passage in the first vessel, 

 and it foundered at sea without leaving any trace behind it. But 

 he went in the next trader, and reached the west coast of Green- 

 land in safety. 



"Again there were unforeseen difficulties in his way: there was 

 was not one European willing to lend him a helping hand, and the 

 Esquimaux men were all engaged in seal-hunting; but by the 

 temptation of sugar and coffee he procured the willing services of 

 eight expert women of that Arctic tribe. "With great courage and 

 skill they merrily conducted his boat during two months through 

 the floating ice and brekaers of the coast, and enabled him 



