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some one else may be found to use it efficiently. I think 

 a nice book could be made out of each batch. 



As to myself I trust I am sufficiently thankful, for 

 I have had a life to be thankful for. I have known 

 some of the best of men whom I could know, and what 

 is more have been on the best terms of friendship with 

 them, and it has certainly pleased God to bless me in 

 countless ways and particularly in my Natural History 

 acquaintances, both at home and abroad. By a most 

 wonderful combination of circumstances I came in for 

 the Travelling Fellowship of this College — the only thing 

 of its kind, and the very thing that suited me ! Then 

 again, by a like wonderful chance, the newly founded 

 Professorship of Zoology in the University fell to me ! 

 If it had been worth more some better man would have 

 tried for it and got it. But it was just what I wanted, 

 and though many others would have done much more 

 with it, I am not sure that the study of Zoology in the 

 University would have been thereby really helped. 



So God bless you, 



Alfred Newton. 



A few days before the end an old friend, Mr. J. J. 

 Lister, went to see him when he was in great distress. 

 " I have had a very happy life," he said. 



The evening before he died the Master was sent for. 

 A prayer was said and then the Professor wished him 

 good-bye. " God bless all my friends — God bless the 

 College — and may the study of Zoology continue to 

 flourish in the University." A little later — his breath- 

 ing was very laboured and he could speak only with 

 difficulty — he asked to be lifted up. " I must die in my 

 chair, like dear Bradshaw." So, on June 7, 1907, he 

 died. 



