So FRANCIS ORPEN MORRIS 



ment ; all were named with their proper Latinised 

 appellations, and all kept in most perfect order. 

 When it is considered that there were no less than 

 six of these cabinets, that every single specimen 

 took both time and care to set in the way these 

 were, and that of British butterflies and moths only 

 there were something like 3500 specimens, it is diffi- 

 cult to see how the time was snatched to carry out 

 this extensive by-work. It seemed almost as if, by 

 some magical power, he was able to multiply two 

 hands into four, and the twenty-four hours of the 

 day to forty-eight. It was only by the strictest 

 economy of the hours and minutes as they fled that 

 he could have done what he did. 



In his study there was a place for everything and 

 everything in its place, so much so that he would 

 often say that, if necessary, he could find in the dark, 

 among his numberless papers, many a one that he 

 needed. Everything about his room was a reflec- 

 tion of his well-ordered and methodical mind. 

 His letters were for the most part arranged in 

 numbered pigeon-holes, so that they could be easily 

 referred to. Stuffed birds were conspicuous by 

 their absence ; such as he possessed were arranged 

 in another part of the house. Prominent on a 

 wall of his room were two cases of marine shells 

 and foreign creatures of queer shapes and kinds, 

 among which were half-a-dozen scorpions, and a 

 huge spider with outstretched legs, measuring not 

 far short of six inches across. On a small side- 

 table, also of ancient make, were arranged his 



