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While I think of it. I heard one of the best bulls 

 yesterday. An Irishwoman giving evidence about her 

 husband, strongly in his favour, was at last asked, " Is 

 he a faithful husband ? " and answered, " Bedad, then 

 for that I couldn't say, sor, for my last child was not 

 his at all." Ponder this. — A. N. 



To the end of his life Newton always protested that 

 lecturing was quite out of his line, and when he was 

 dying he insisted on his nephew Charles burning 

 bundle after bundle of lecture notes, lest they should 

 fall into the hands of some misguided person, who 

 might, perhaps, publish them under his name. 



But the necessary course of professional lectures 

 took very far from a first place in his activities. His 

 friend and former colleague at the Museum, Mr. J. W. 

 Clark, wrote of him : — 



From the first day of his election Newton took a 

 keen interest in the Museum, using this word in its 

 widest sense. He was absolutely catholic in his views. 

 Ornithology was his pet child ; but all the other 

 members of the Museum family were treated by him 

 with afiectionate regard, even down to the preparations 

 of organs in spirit — which he never really liked, but 

 submitted to as necessities. He made his friends and 

 wide circle of acquaintances help him in the acquisition 

 of specimens from all quarters of the world ; and the 

 rapid development of our collections is largely due to 

 his energy. Without him we should never have had 

 the skeleton of the Extinct Manatee (Rhytina), the 

 White Rhinoceros, the Extinct Ox {Bos primigenius), 

 and many other rarities.* 



The skeleton of the Bos primigenius mentioned by 

 Mr. J. W. Clark came from Burwell Fen, between 

 Cambridge and Ely. 



* Cambridge Review, June 13, 1907. 



