42 MEMORIAL SKETCH. 



Robert Chambers sought him out in an early visit, and the 

 suspicion which he had already formed through correspon 

 dence with him as to the authorship of the &quot;Vestiges,&quot; was 

 strongly confirmed by their subsequent intercourse, which 

 ripened into warm friendship. His researches into the micro 

 scopic structure of shells brought him the acquaintance of 

 Mr. Darwin, who requested him to examine for him some 

 specimens of the great Pampas formation, for the &quot; Geo 

 logical History of South America,&quot; on which he was then 

 engaged. These shell-inquiries, which he had begun at 

 Bristol, and continued at Ripley, were conducted with the 

 aid of grants from the British Association, and the results 

 were published in its Reports for 1844 and 1847, with forty 

 plates lithographed from original drawings. They estab 

 lished his reputation as an original investigator, and 

 prepared the way for his future labours on the great class 

 of Foraminifera, on which, his first paper was published 

 in 1850. His discoveries among the Brachiopoda, in par 

 ticular, were extended and summarized in an Introductory 

 Memoir on the microscopic structure of the shells of that 

 group, contributed to Mr. Davidson s elaborate work on 

 British Fossil Brachiopoda in 1853. 



Other friendships also entered his life from another side. 

 He became acquainted with Mr. A. J. Scott,* and at his 

 house he witnessed one evening an encounter between Mr. 

 Carlyle and Professor F. W. Newman, who had left Man 

 chester to become Professor of Latin in University College. 



I have only left myself space (he related to his sister Mary, 

 in the spring of 1847) to tell you briefly that I met Carlyle in 

 society last night, and listened to a long debate between him 

 and Newman, in which Carlyle vehemently denounced tolera 

 tion as the destruction of all individuality. His language was 



* Then Professor of English in University College, London, and afterwards 

 Principal of Owen s College, Manchester. 



