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older men who have reached the highest eminence 

 in those subjects. 



He seems to have led a somewhat double life at 

 Cambridge, his intense love of sport taking him into 

 a pleasure-loving set, while his intellectual interests 

 made him the intimate friend of Whitley, who became 

 Senior Wrangler, and of Professor Henslow, to whom 

 he was introduced by his second cousin, W. Darwin 

 Fox, who also first interested him in entomology. He 

 became so keen a collector of beetles that his suc- 

 cesses and experiences in this direction seem to have 

 impressed him more deeply than anything else at 

 Cambridge. Entomology, and especially beetles, form 

 the chief subject of those of his Cambridge letters 

 which have been recovered. 



Darwin's friendship with Henslow, which was to 

 have a most important effect on his life, very soon 

 deepened. They often went long walks together, so 

 that he was called " the man who walks with Hens- 

 low." This fact and the subsequent rapidly formed 

 intimacy with Professor Adam Sedgwick, indicate 

 that he was remarkable among the young men of his 

 standing. 



One of his undergraduate friends, J. M. Herbert, 

 afterwards County Court Judge for South Wales, 

 retained the most vivid recollection of Darwin at 

 Cambridge, and contributed the following impression 

 of his character to the " Life and Letters " : — 



" It would be idle for me to speak of his vast intellectual 

 powers . . . but I cannot end this cursory and rambling 



