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hexameters (vide MSS. in Jenyns’ library) written on the occasion 
of the first Arctic Voyage of this century under Capt. Ross ; 
Lieut. Parry being the commander of one of the ships which took 
part in this North Polar expedition. Amongst some of the 
pleasant acquaintances made during his school days and continued 
in after life, was that of George Howard afterwards Earl of 
Carlisle and Lord-Lieut. of Ireland. The two Puseys were also 
amongst his schoolfellows, the younger of the two not very much 
above him in the school, not promising in features and general 
appearance (“an insignificant looking boy” he might be called) 
and not distinguished for his learning, grew up to be the 
celebrated Dr. Pusey of after years. 
In the year (1817) before going to Cambridge, we hear of him 
being taken to one of the Sunday evening conversaziones of the 
President of the Royal Society, at that time Sir Joseph Banks. 
All the living celebrities of science here met. His introduction 
to the aged President as “the Eton boy who lit his room with 
gas,” was characteristic. 
Such are a few of the earlier incidents of this great man’s life ; 
we now follow him to Cambridge. 
Entering at St. John’s College in 1818 his weak health (the 
sick headaches he alludes'to) prevented him from the study of 
mathematics, so that he only took an ordinary degree. His 
becoming acquainted with Henslow, four years his senior, who 
had taken his degree that same year and who subsequently married 
his sister in 1823, had a great effect upon his after life and was 
the beginning of a close and never dying friendship. After his 
friend’s appointment to the Botanical Chair Jenyns added Botany 
to his other pursuits, and those two remained “ arcades ambo” in 
all Natural History studies, entomology, conchology and botany 
till the Professor’s death in 1861 (vide Jenyns’ ‘‘life ot Henslow.” 
The result of their combined researches formed the nucleus 
of what may now be seen in more than forty large folio volumes of 
phanerogamus plants, besides several smaller volumes of mosses, 
