80 ENGLISH MEN OF SCIENCE. [CHAP. 



" Father Active in field sports ; has ridden 

 sixty miles before dinner. Abstemious. Ener- 

 getic in mind. Mother Much energy, as shown 

 by activity and power of enduring fatigue. 

 Great physical courage and presence of mind 

 in danger." 



5. " Kemarkable for athletic exercises when at 

 Cambridge. In early life encountered great 

 fatigue with the army, as .... during the 

 . . . . war. 



" Father Great activity and immense energy 

 in the practice of his profession. A man of most 

 powerful intellect." 



6. " I have been and still am a strong walker, 

 both mountaineering and deer-stalking. I never 

 knew what it was to be tired, but, after the 

 hardest day, was ready to start again with six 

 hours' sleep. Although in my sixty-seventh year, 

 I am still an indefatigable deer-stalker." 



7. " Strong when young walked many a time 

 fifty miles a day without fatigue, and kept up 

 five miles an hour for three or four hours. 



