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were frustrated for want 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 
suchwork. His practice throughout life wastogive the best of every- 
thing to public museums, and to retain duplicates 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 Carpological 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. 
“ Eyery 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. Fossils, 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 
