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alike, each with their stated intervals of work and rest. It 

 is almost impossible, except for those who watched his daily 

 life, to realise how essential to his well-being was the regular 

 routine that I have sketched : and with what pain and diffi- 

 culty anything beyond it was attempted. Any public ap- 

 pearance, even of the most modest kind, was an effort to him. 

 In 1871 he went to the little village church for the wedding 

 of his elder daughter, but he could hardly bear the fatigue of 

 being present through the short service. The same may be 

 said of the few other occasions on which he was present at 

 similar ceremonies. 



I remember him many years ago at a christening; a 

 memory which has remained with me, because to us children 

 it seemed an extraordinary and abnormal occurrence. I re- 

 member his look most distinctly at his brother Erasmus's 

 funeral, as he stood in the scattering of snow, wrapped in a 

 long black funeral cloak, with a grave look of sad reverie. 



When, after an interval of many years, he again attended 

 a meeting of the Linnean Society, it was felt to be, and 

 was in fact, a serious undertaking ; one not to be determined 

 on without much sinking of heart, and hardly to be carried 

 into effect without paying a penalty of subsequent suffering. 

 In the same way a breakfast-party at Sir James Paget's, with 

 some of the distinguished visitors to the Medical Congress 

 (1881), was to him a severe exertion. 



The early morning was the only time at which he could 

 make any effort of the kind, with comparative impunity. 

 Thus it came about that the visits he paid to his scientific 

 friends in London were by preference made as early as ten in 

 the morning. For the same reason he started on his journeys 

 by the earliest possible train, and used to arrive at the houses 

 of relatives in London when they were beginning their day. 



He kept an accurate journal of the days on which he worked 

 and those on which his ill health prevented him from working, 

 so that it would be possible to tell how many were idle days 



