186 ENGLISH MEN OF SCIENCE. [CHAP. 



linguist. My tastes were not determined by 

 after events, but my avocations were rather 

 determined by my scientific habits." (e) 



ANALYSIS OF EEPLIES. 



Having given the replies in gross, it now 

 becomes our business to sort their contents under 

 different heads. It would be useless and even 

 embarrassing to make lengthy extracts from 

 them ; short abstracts will therefore be given, 

 which the reader may verify whenever he pleases 

 by the help of the reference number, printed in 

 parentheses ( ), which is the same both here 

 and in the original. 



A. INNATE TASTES. 



Instances of a strong taste for science being 

 decidedly innate. I have not included among 

 these the whole of the cases to which an a 

 has been affixed: 



Physics and Mathematics. 12 cases out of 

 20 replies. (1) My tastes are entirely innate ; 



