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partakes of the guilt of that crime to undermine his health by courses 
of intemperance and folly. He may not have self destruction in view, 
but it as surely follows in the end as if he had at once put a pistol to 
his head.” 
On one occasion when I hinted at the inconvenience which 
must arise from his change of name and dropping out that of 
“‘Jenyns” by which he was so well known in the Scientific 
world ; he said that he had taken counsel’s opinion on the point, 
and that if he retained the property which devolved upon him in 
1871 he must of necessity take the name of Blomefield and drop 
that of “Jenyns” entirely. 
His literary style was simple, lucid, and explanatory, by the use 
of the latter word I mean that he was able to express what he 
wished and thought exactly and accurately. The words in “ The 
Times” of Oct. 2nd, 1893, descriptive of the late Professor 
Jowett’s accuracy may well be applied to him. 
“He had an instinctive abhorrence of anything like confusion of 
thought, and always expressed himself with the utmost lucidity and 
precision.” 
His early scientific habits conduced of course to this facility of 
writing just what he meant, and in such a way that his readers 
could see his meaning at once. Though feeling his deficiency as 
a lecturer, coming far short in this respect of his old friend 
Professor Henslow, yet his addresses and communications were 
always listened to with interest and attention. The nervousness 
which attended him through) life was plainly noticeable in his 
preliminary arrangements; and one could see how his efforts 
latterly caused much physical exhaustion. There was something 
about his diction and the way in which he threw his whole soul 
into the subject before him which arrested the attention of his 
hearers and imprinted his words on their memory nihil tetigit quod 
non ornavit. 
The following remarks from a botanist express very justly 
his views on this subject. 
