TUTORSHIP AT HINTON. 21 



his degree as Bachelor of Arts, and was consequently 

 obliged to wait at least three years longer before he 

 could apply for Ordination. He therefore accepted 

 a situation as tutor in a school of which the then 

 rector of Little Hinton, in Wiltshire, was head- 

 master. Here he continued for two years, and was 

 very successful in the work of tuition, while he imbued 

 many of the lads with a taste for natural history. 

 The half-holiday afternoons were commonly spent in 

 long rambles over the downs, and in these two years 

 he added considerably to his own zoological knowledge, 

 and made many a note and observation which after- 

 wards proved of the highest interest and importance. 

 In 1850 he left Hinton and returned to Oxford, 

 in order to read for Ordination. Much of his time, 

 however, was devoted to a private pupil, and as he 

 was also working sedulously in the Anatomical Museum 

 at Christ Church, under Sir Henry then Dr. Acland, 

 the Eegius Professor of Anatomy, two more years 

 passed away before he was actually ordained. During 

 these two years, to his great subsequent benefit, he 

 went through a complete course of research in com- 

 parative anatomy, himself dissecting representatives 

 of all the important families of the animal kingdom, 

 and making numberless careful and valuable prepara- 

 tions, of which many remain in the museum to this 

 day. Insect anatomy, in particular, received special 

 attention at his hands, and he thus acquired an 

 intimate knowledge of every part of an insect's struc- 

 ture, which afterwards stood him in more than good 



