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ledge is little more than that a daisy is a Compositous plant 

 and a pea a Leguminous one." 



He valued very highly two photographic albums containing 

 portraits of a large number of scientific men in Germany and 

 Holland, which he received as birthday gifts in 1877. 



In the year 1878 my father received a singular mark of 

 recognition in the form of a letter from a stranger, announcing 

 that the writer intended to leave to him the reversion of the 

 greater part of his fortune. Mr. Anthony Eich, who desired 

 thus to mark his sense of my father's services to science, was the 

 author of a Dictionary of Roman and Greek Antiquities, said to 

 be the best book of the kind. It has been translated into 

 French, German, and Italian, and has, in English, gone through 

 several editions. Mr. Rich lived a great part of his life in 

 Italy, painting, and collecting books and engravings. He 

 finally settled, many years ago, at Worthing (then a small 

 village), where he was a friend of Byron's Trelawny. My 

 father visited Mr. Rich at Worthing, more than once, and 

 gained a cordial liking and respect for him. 



Mr. Rich died in April, 1891, having arranged that his 

 bequest * should not lapse in consequence of the predecease 

 of my father. 



In 1879 he received from the Royal Aoademy of Turin the 

 Bressa Prize for the years 1875-78, amounting to the sum 

 of 12,000 francs. He refers to this in a letter to Dr. Dohrn 

 (February 15th, 1880) :— 



"Perhaps you saw in the papers that the Turin Society 

 honoured me to an extraordinary degree by awarding me the 

 Bressa Prize. Now it occurred to me that if your station 

 wanted some piece of apparatus, of about the value of £100, 1 

 should very much like to be allowed to pay for it. Will you 

 be so kind as to keep this in mind, and if any want should 

 occur to you, I would send you a cheque at any time." 



I find from my father's accounts that £100 was presented to 

 the Naples Station. 



Two years before my father's death, and twenty-one years 



(Nature, August 1st, 1872) that an eminent member of the Academy 

 wrote to Les Monde* to the following effect : — 



" What has closed the doors of the Academy to Mr. Darwin is that 

 the science of those of his books which have made his chief title to fame 

 — the Origin of Species, and still more the Descent of Man, is not science, 

 but a mass of assertions and absolutely gratuitous hypotheses, often 

 evidently fallacious. This kind of publication and these theories are a 

 bad example, which a body that respects itself cannot encourage." 



* Mr. Rich leaves a single near relative, to whom is bequeathed the 

 life-interest in his property. 



