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" and in all that time I could think of him as a model of 

 " srentleness and fairness, and of unbounded desire for the 

 "attainment and diffusion of knowledge." This sense of 

 justice was stamped on all his intellectual work. He 

 sought anxiously to manifest it towards others ; he desired 

 it to be displayed towards himself. It made him eager 

 to recognize to the full the value of the investigations of 

 fellow-labourers, and he expected a similar recognition of 

 his own. 



I gratefully remember (wrote one of his old friends to him 

 in 1883) that you were among the earliest to welcome me 

 among the workers in biology, and to encourage me by com- 

 mendation both privately and publicly expressed. 



Of his generous kindness to young men, and his faithfulness 

 as a friend (Mr. Huxley says), I can speak from knowledge. I 

 was a very young man, almost friendless in the scientific world, 

 when I returned to England in the end of 1850. I made Dr. 

 Carpenter's acquaintance early in 1851, and it so happened 

 that I was able to give him some odds and ends of information, 

 which he found useful in bringing out the third edition of the 

 " Principles of Comparative Physiology." In the preface, Dr. 

 Carpenter has referred to my small services in a manner which 

 I thought then, and think now, disproportionate to my deserts ; 

 and, from that time until his lamented death, he remained a 

 friend who did me many a good turn, and upon whose stead- 

 fastness I could always rely. More than once I had the mis 

 fortune to come into scientific conflict with him ; and on one 

 occasion, certainly, I was in the right. Yet not even that 

 provocation disturbed his unvarying goodness. 



Some other aspects of Dr. Carpenter's work are de- 

 scribed in the following communication from Mr. Thiselton- 

 Dyer, F.R.S.* 



In later years, when it was my privilege to be counted by 

 Dr. Carpenter among his personal friends, I saw, with delight, 



* See a quotation previously given, p. 68. 

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