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4th of April, 1884, he records that he has been "on circuit" 

 the previous week, lecturing for the Gilchrist Trust at 

 Gloucester, Stafiford, Northampton, Peterborough, and 

 York ! In the next week he is to discourse to the Micro- 

 scopical Society, and at the approaching Easter to attend 

 the Ter-centenary festival of the University of Edinburgh, 

 as representative of the University of London. Degrees 

 were to be conferred in the metropolis of Knox's Calvinism 

 on Dr. Martineau and M. Renan. "Verily," said Dr. 

 Carpenter, recalling his earlier experiences, " tempora 

 nmtantnry Nor did this complete the list of his engage- 

 ments. " On the following week I am to go down to 

 " Plymouth to help to launch a local Fisheries Exhibition 

 ** they are getting up there. Our zoological station is as 

 " yet in niibibiis." Ever since his visit to Naples, Dr. 

 Carpenter had been impressed with the desirability of pro- 

 moting marine zoological research at home, and he had 

 made proposals for the thorough exploration and study of 

 Milford Haven. This plan was not adopted. But a 

 Marine Biological Association was formed, of which he 

 became vice-president, and this has since carried out, by 

 means of its laboratory on Plymouth Sound, a design 

 traceable to his own suggestion. It was the last public 

 movement which he helped to initiate and guide. 



In the same spring he presented to the Royal Society 

 a short paper on the Nervous System of the Crinoidea. 

 Here he summarized the evidence in favour of his views, 

 which had been made known since his second statement of 

 them in 1876, partly by the researches of one of his sons, 

 and partly by those of other naturalists in England, France, 

 and Germany. This was his last communication on a 

 scientific subject to a learned' society. Eighteen months 

 later, but a few weeks after his death, a text-book of 

 zoology was published by his former chief opponent in 



