128 MEMOIR OF 



scholars, especially of the Royal Society, and the 

 great loss of all good men who were acquainted 

 with his virtues, and of all learned men who 

 could judge of his labours. 



" The other, Bishop Wilkins, was a person of a 

 different temper, and a more extensive genius ; 

 who was no loser, but a considerable gainer in the 

 late troublesome times. He was educated in the 

 University of Oxford, where he was warden of 

 Wadham College, and thence removed to the 

 mastership of Trinity College, Cambridge, by 

 Cromwell, whose sister he had married. 



" He was deprived of this at the Restoration, yet 

 afterwards, for his admirable abilities, he was made 

 Bishop of Chester ; and surely the Court could 

 never have found a man of greater ingenuity and 

 capacity, or of more considerable knowledge and 

 understanding, being distinguished not only by 

 his theology and his excellent preaching, but for 

 his skill in mathematics, in philosophy, and in all 

 sorts of polite and valuable learning, than whom 

 no man ever had a truer taste or a more solid 

 judgment." 



The marble busts of Mr Willughby and Mr 

 Ray stand opposite to each other in the Library, 

 of Trinity College, Cambridge, at the commence- 

 ment of that long succession of resemblances on 

 either hand of the great and wise of past ages, 

 which deepens the veneration inspired in the 

 visiter by the view of their works, assembled 

 around him, and who occasionally pauses to com- 

 pare the " features with the thoughts" of those of 



