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an old friend of Sir William's ; and his son was that greatest 

 of geologists who was to be the early inspirer of Darwin and his 

 lifelong friend together with Hooker. 

 Later in the same year, 1832 : 



Joseph is in the senior Latin and senior Greek, and next 

 year will take logic and mathematics along with his brother. 

 William continues ardently devoted to ornithology, and 

 Joseph to botany and entomology. The latter is already 

 a fair British botanist and has a tolerable herbarium, very 

 much of his own collecting. But the orchideae are his 

 great favourites, and he has an eye for them, and a memory 

 too for their names, which often surprises me. Had he time 

 for it he would already be more useful to me than Mr. 

 Klotzsch [his assistant]. 1 



The removal to a new house in Glasgow, at Woodside 

 Crescent, * spirited up ' the family to an access of tidying, 

 and * Joseph has taken in hand to arrange all his father's 

 duplicate plants, selecting among them for his own collection, 

 and he has been pursuing this occupation with much diligence 

 for some weeks.' 



Next year, Joseph being sixteen, his father declines an 

 invitation for him to go to the Dawson Turners' at Yarmouth, 

 saying, ' the expense is very considerable for a lad who is 

 scarcely old enough to derive permanent advantage from 

 such a journey ; and both he and his brother have now entered 

 upon studies which can scarcely with propriety be interrupted.' 

 The permanent advantage of studying his grandfather's col- 

 lections would doubtless come later, when he should be further 

 advanced in his regular botanical work. 



A little later Sir William sends his father-in-law a parcel, 

 in which is enclosed a small box of insects which Joseph is 

 * very desirous of transmitting to Mr. Paget.' 2 



The same entomological enthusiasm inspires two early 



1 S. J. Klotzsch spent some years as Sir William's curator at Glasgow, and 

 was the founder of the mycological portion of the herbarium. Subsequently 

 he became keeper of the Royal Herbarium at Berlin. Hooker gives an amusing 

 description of his oddities in the Memoirs of his father, p. xxxiii. 



2 No . doubt Charles, brother of (Sir) James Paget, the famous surgeon 

 (1814-99), and one of the seventeen children of Samuel Paget, brewer and ship- 



