CHAPTER II. 



QUALITIES. 



Energy Size of Head Health Perseverance Practical 

 Business Habits Memory Independence of Character 

 Mechanical Aptitude Religious Bias Truthfulness. 



IN this chapter I will speak of the qualities 

 which the returns specify as most conspicuous in 

 scientific men, and I shall endeavour to make 

 them tell their own tale by quoting anonymous 

 extracts from their communications. Some of 

 these qualities are common to all men who suc- 

 ceed in life, others such as the love for science 

 are more or less special to scientific men. We 

 will begin with the general qualities, with the view 

 of obtaining as exact an idea as may be of the 

 degree in which they are present in the leaders of 



