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abundant opportunities for indulging my taste, 

 though, of course, I was not allowed to keep half 

 the number of ' pets ' I should have liked. The 

 example of my father and elder brothers, who 

 were all pretty firm to field sports, was also 

 followed by me, and from field sports to field 

 natural history is but a step. I obtained, by. a 

 piece of sheer good luck, the travelling fellow- 

 ship of . . . ; it was tenable for nine years, and 

 its income was sufficient to keep me during that 

 time without being obliged to enter any pro- 

 fession. Though circumstances subsequently 

 interfered with my using this assistance to the 

 most advantage, in gratifying my taste for 

 natural history, it was enormously furthered 

 thereby." (a, 6, c, e) 



(10) "My partiality for the natural history 

 sciences was initiated partly by my selection of 

 medicine as a profession, and perhaps even more 

 that, during the period of my apprenticeship, I 

 was much under the influence of a remarkable 

 man . . . , a most accomplished naturalist and 

 of singularly independent judgment . . . For 



