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address must have had an important influence in placing the subject 

 before the assembled clergy in a reasonable light. The range of his 

 knowledge was equal to the calls made upon it, and he descanted with 

 equal facility on burial in sand, in urging the claims of kindness to 

 animals, or in strongly upholding his father's view as to the cruelty of 

 the bearing-rein in horses. 



His other addresses were stored with information or contained grace- 

 ful tributes to the memory of deceased friends, like Darwin, Huxley, 

 and Rolleston, as well as to other distinguished naturalists, such as 

 Owen. In his address as President of the Department of Anthropology 

 at York, in 1881, he alluded to the difficulties in the scientific investiga- 

 tion of man, the paucity of workers, of libraries, and museums. It 

 must have been gratifying to him to find that within a few years great 

 strides had been made, and that an Anthropological Institute, of whieh 

 he was President, was devoted to the study of the subject he had done 

 so much to advance by his researches and by his eloquence. At the 

 meeting of the British Association in Aberdeen (1885), he was the fore- 

 most zoologist, equally at home in criticising the valuable papers by 

 Sir William Turner and the late Sir John Struthers on the whales, 

 beautiful skeletons of some of which had been prepared for the occa- 

 sion ; or in speaking on the interesting questions raised by Sir John 

 Lubbock (now Lord Avebury) in his address on the dog, as well as 

 taking a kindly interest in the remarks of the whaler, Captain Gray, 

 whose model in wood of a right whale is now in the British Museum, 

 and a woodcut from which illustrates his joint work on the Mammals. 

 He also gave an address at the Loan Collection of Scientific Apparatus 

 at South Kensington. 



A life so continuously devoted to the advancement of knowledge, 

 and so productive in its results, was well worthy of the many honours 

 that fell to him. Besides those already mentioned, he was made C.B. 

 in 1887 ; he received a Royal Medal from the Royal Society in 1882 

 for his valuable contributions to the morphology and classification of 

 the mammalia and to anthropology. He received the degree of LL.D. 

 from the Universities of Edinburgh, St. Andrews, and Dublin (Trinity 

 College) ; D.Sc. from Cambridge, and D.C.L. from Durham (1889), and 

 Oxford (1891), the public orator welcoming him as a proof of the pro- 

 verbial saying- attributed to one of the Seven Wise Men of Greece, ap^ 

 av&pa Seigei, and as having passed with ever increasing distinction 

 through a variety of public posts. The Government of the day (1892) 

 made him K.C.B., and he was honoured with the Jubilee Medal from 

 Her Majesty. He was a member of many foreign societies, institutes, 

 and academies, such as the Netherlands, Sweden, Belgium, and France. 

 Moreover, he was the recipient of the Royal Prussian order, "Pour la 

 merite " from the German Emperor, " the one European decoration," as 

 a distinguished friend wrote in his congratulatory letter, "which an 





