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nate. (3) Always fond of plants. (4) Was 

 always fond of objective and experimental 

 knowledge. (5) As a youth I followed of my 

 own free will chemistry and other sciences. (6) 

 A taste for natural science, especially botany, 

 seems to have been innate. (7) [Scientific 

 tastes apparently innate.] (8) A natural in- 

 clination. 



Medical Science. Only 2 cases out of 7. (1) 

 Innate in a great degree. (2) I conclude the 

 tastes were innate, as they showed themselves 

 the moment the opportunity for developing them 

 occurred. 



Statistics. 3 cases out of 6. (1) Certainly 

 my scientific tastes appear to me to have been, 

 so to say, innate. (3) Innate, I think. (4) 

 Much inclined to think there was an innate 

 tendency. 



Mechanical Science. At least 2 cases out of 

 5. (1) If any tastes be innate, mine were; 

 they date from beyond my recollection. (2) 

 Decidedly innate. 



