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die." All the next morning lie suffered from terrible nausea 

 and faintness, and hardly rallied before the end came. 



He died at about four o'clock on Wednesday, April 19th, 

 1882, in the 74th year of his age. 



I close the record of my father's life with a few words of 

 retrospect added to the manuscript of his Autobiography in 

 1879 :— 



* As for myself, I believe that I have acted rightly in 

 steadily following and devoting my life to Science. I feel no 

 remorse from having committed any great sin, but have often 

 and often regretted that I have not done more direct good to 

 my fellow creatures." 



