238 ENGLISH MEN OF SCIENCE. [CHAP. 



There are a few cases in which an answer, 

 already given in combination, has been extracted 

 and repeated. 



MERITS : EDUCATION PRAISED THROUGHOUT, OR 

 NEARLY SO TEN CASES. 



(1) "Was admirably taught, set 13-16^, to 

 reason, use my own mind, and depend on myself. 

 Was taught to acquire large masses of informa- 

 tion by reading. There was a little tendency 

 to a vagrant style of reading, but this was pro- 

 bably neutralised by other influences/' 



(2) " Well taught in classics and mathematics. 

 If possible my education should have afforded 

 facilities for the study of the science of observa- 

 tion, but I doubt the practicability of this at 

 school. While a schoolboy I taught myself 

 botany, chemistry, &c., under great dis- 

 advantages/' 



(3) " Careful and good early education at 

 home by my mother and father ; then rather 

 strict training by my father and by my first 



