IN MEMORIAM: CHARLES DARWIN 



high repute. Of the sons of Erasmus, one, Sir 

 Francis Darwin, was noted as a keen observer 

 of animals ; another, Charles, who died at the 

 age of twenty-one from a dissection wound, had 

 already written a medical essay of such impor- 

 tance as to give his name a place in biographi- 

 cal dictionaries ; a third, Robert Waring, who 

 achieved great distinction as a physician, married 

 a daughter of the celebrated Josiah Wedgwood, 

 and became the father of the immortal discoverer 

 who has just been taken away from us. While 

 citing these remarkable instances of inherited 

 ability, it may be of interest to mention also 

 that among the cousins of Mr. Darwin who have 

 become more or less distinguished in our own 

 time are Mr. Hensleigh Wedgwood, the philo- 

 logist, the late Sir Henry Holland, and Mr. 

 Francis Galton, whose excellent treatise on 

 " Hereditary Genius " is known to every one. 

 Nor can it be irrelevant to add that one of Mr. 

 Darwin's sons has already, through his study of 

 the tides, achieved some remarkable results, 

 which seem likely to give him a high place 

 among the astronomers of the present day. 



There is one thing which a man of original 

 scientific or philosophical genius in a rightly or- 

 dered world should never be called upon to do. 

 He should never be called upon to " earn a liv- 

 ing; " for that is a wretched waste of energy, 

 in which the highest intellectual power is sure 

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