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sea-weeds and fresh water algz, deposited in the ‘“ Jenyns’ 
library” in 1888—a monument of most laborious and painstaking 
work ! 
Besides his botanical pursuits he attended Professorial Lectures 
on Chemistry, Mineralogy and Geology. The course on the latter 
subject was being given by Adam Sedgwick recently (1818) 
appointed Professor, and was probably the first he had delivered. 
Illustrious names adorn the roll of his acquaintances. Whewell, 
Julius Hare (thought by Bunsen to be “ the most learned man of 
his age”) Thirlwall, Adam Sedgwick, Charles Darwin, Philip 
Duncan ;* who would not be proud of the acquaintance of such 
distinguished men? Of Thirlwall, who visited him in after life 
at Swaffham Bulbeck, he relates an anecdote of his jumping over 
a sunk fence separating the garden from the meadow. “I never 
thought at that time (he writes) of the jumper rising to be Bishop 
of St. David’s, and less of his ending his days in Bath.” This 
acquaintance seems not to have been renewed, for on the very 
morning that these two college friends were to meet each other 
at luncheon the Bishop had a stroke that deprived him of his 
eyesight and which he survived only a few weeks. 
The following remarks on Bishop Thirlwall occur amongst 
his MS. “ Thoughts and Notes.” 
‘“T have been reading with pleasure and profit Bishop Thirlwall’s 
letters. After being for some years Fellow and Tutor of Trinity 
College, Cambridge, he was appointed to a living in Yorkshire before 
his elevation to the Bench. It does not appear that he neglected his 
people, but his heart was evidently among his books with which his 
library—almost his whole house—was filled to overflowing. It was 
in the retirement of a country village he wrote his “History of 
Greece,” and his studious habits: were very remarkable. It was 
arranged that he should furnish a volume every six months which it 
seems he had hard labour to effect. He speaks of his whole life as a 
* Philip Duncan, one of his most esteemed acquaintances in Bath, 
died at the age of 93. 
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