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ends of the earth, and other not less excellent merchants 

 who were not particularly shrewd, and who were con- 

 versant with little other literature than the Glasgow 

 Herald, and along with them their wives and daughters, 

 some of them blue stockings, but others quite as useful 

 members of the family who knew cookery vastly better 

 than geology. In addressing the assembly, the noble Duke 

 gave us a panoramic view of a number of the most dis- 

 tinguished scientific men of the day, and an epitome of 

 their discoveries. Many of them were cheered as their 

 names passed in brief review ; but there were two whose 

 names called forth the loudest and most repeated shouts. 

 The one of these was a prince in rank, even as he is 

 a prince in science. Prince Lucien Bonaparte, the 

 cousin of the then ally of England in the Russian war, 

 received a cheer worthy of Glasgow. There was just 

 one other who was acclaimed by so loud a burst ; and 

 some of us observed with interest that in his case the 

 cheer came from every heart, and from a greater depth 

 in the heart : that cheer was in honour of one we need 

 not name him, but when his name was pronounced it 

 moved the vast assembly simultaneously like an electric 

 shock of one of Nature's nobles, made noble not by the 

 hand of man, but by the evident mark of God upon him. 

 ' But Fame was not the idol before which this great 

 man bowed. The love of reputation was but an under- 

 current in his soul. He lived to do a work, but it was for 

 the glory of God and the good of mankind. I watched 

 him with interest, as many did, in the meetings of the 

 Geological Section of the British Association ; and I ob- 

 served that he sat, and stood, and spoke, and moved 

 with the most perfect simplicity. There was no bravado 

 on the one hand nor mock humility on the other ; there 

 was no courting of popularity, no tricks to draw atten- 



