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lunacy, ethnography, theology, and ethics. Its 

 twenty solid and well-arranged chapters were 

 written in four months. 



" Promptly at 5," he wrote in December, "I 

 am awakened by the bells of the church hard 

 by. I write continuously until 12. After a frugal 

 lunch and a short rest, the afternoon is devoted 

 to a walk or to water-colour sketches. The longer 

 days allow me to sit and paint in the open air 

 until five. Our quiet evenings, from 5 to 10, are 

 spent in reading and in writing letters. The 

 interruption for dinner, from 7 to 8, gives us an 

 opportunity to exchange jokes over our ' cloistral 

 life.' " Thus the veteran naturalist, of " notori- 

 ously licentious life " (the words of the Glasgow 

 preacher were spoken at this very period), ap- 

 proached his eighth decade of life of work. 



He remained at Eapallo until the birthday had 

 passed, but his address had meantime become 

 widely known, and the miniature postal arrange- 

 ments at Bapallo were severely taxed. Letters, 

 telegrams, flowers, and other gifts mostly spon- 

 taneous expressions of gratitude from " unknown 

 readers of the Riddle of the Universe ' ' reminded 

 him of the larger world that now appreciated 

 him. A still larger number of letters and gifts 

 reached Jena from all parts of the world. 

 Hundreds of German journals and periodicals 

 devoted long and generous articles to the dis- 

 tinguished worker, and little festive commemora- 

 tions were held at many of the universities. At 

 Zurich, Professor Conrad Keller and Professor 





