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really think that Mrs. Lyell has given us a very import an 

 contribution to the history of Science — and it does mak 

 one ' warm to ' Lyell himself. The accounts of the earl- 

 history of the Geological, its dinners, &c, are most enter 

 taming and instructive ; so too is the substance of man 

 of his journeys, in which he chronicles the labours of man; 

 good men whose names deserve to be remembered. Th 

 account of Cuvier and his way of working is most curious 

 The letters to Herschel are the best, they are evidentl 

 very careful compositions. 



Do you observe certain passages that seem to jproi 

 that he never expected to come into the Kinnordy propert 

 on his father's death ? and that on the contrary he looke 

 from an early age to providing himself with a modest con 

 petency for his latter days. 



So the months passed till a fresh thread of happy and sut 

 taining companionship was woven into the broken fabric ( 

 his life. ' No one can have an idea who has not experience 

 it, what a house of six children is without a female guide — 1( 

 the children behave ever so well ! ' At the end of Augus 

 1876 he married Hyacinth, daughter of the Eev. W. S. Symond 

 Eector of Pendock, Worcestershire, and widow of Sir Wiliia] 

 Jardine. Her friendship with the Hookers dated from 186 

 when her father brought her to the Bath meeting of the Britis 

 Association ; it was drawn closer from 1869, when they for< 

 gathered at Sir Charles Lyell's, and visits were frequents 

 exchanged between Kew and Pendock. To native personalit; 

 education and environment was added a community of gener 

 interests with her husband. Her lines had been cast amid 

 science and letters. Her father (1818-87) was a considerab 

 geologist and a writer of merit 1 ; Sir William Jardine (1800-7 

 a lifelong student and writer on Natural History, especial 

 ornithology: 2 



1 Among his scientific books were Stories of the Valley, 1858 ; Old Bon i 

 1859 and 1884 ; Records of the Bocks, 1872. He also wrote two novels, Malve 

 Chase and Hartley Castle. 



2 He published with Prideaux Selby Illustrations of Ornithology, 1830, edit ! 

 the Naturalists' Library, 1833-45, contributing sections on birds and fi. c 

 founded the Annals and Magazine of Natural History, and for a time was joi 

 editor of the Edinburgh Philosophical Journal. In 1860 he was appointed 

 Commissioner on Salmon Fishing. 



