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flock, to all of whom he was kind and liberal. He was the sole 

 pastor and conductor of all the meetings, both at the Table of 

 the Lord, in worship, and in the preaching. His discourses 

 were mainly expository. He was accustomed to take a whole 

 chapter or chapters of a Gospel or an Epistle, focussing all the 

 salient points, and then turning to other portions of Scripture 

 which would shed light, or to quotations that would explain the 

 subject in hand. In the Old Testament he would take a cha- 

 racter, bringing out the important features, or it might be those 

 prophetical of the future, thus making a Biblical figure stand out, 

 with all the motives that actuated him, either for good or evil, 

 as the case might be. These discourses were most attractive 

 and enjoyable. He always kept very close to Scripture, knowing a 

 good deal of the Greek and something of the Hebrew language. 



All this labour, besides his scientific work, collecting at the 

 shores, his tanks, his cabinets, his plant-houses, are minutely 

 tabulated in folios and diaries; histories of many specimens 

 written in full ; contributions to scientific societies, which occu- 

 pied his mornings in examinations in the microscope and other 

 work. All this tells what an industrious man he was. In a 

 letter to a friend, who sent him a manuscript to look over and 

 criticize, he says, " I am sorry to have kept your manuscript so 

 long, but I could read it only at caught intervals, for my time is 

 most pressingly occupied. I am generally in my study soon after 

 five a.m. ; and, what with the work of the Lord and some scientific 

 investigations, which, I hope, will bring glory to Him, I know not 

 what leisure means." And this letter was written in June, 1881, 

 when he was in his seventy-second year. 



My son has described the manner in which, in 1876, his father 

 returned to the study of marine animals. This led him once more 

 to take frequent excursions to the sea-shore, in which I was his 

 constant companion. The living objects which he discovered 

 were brought home and placed in the large show-tank, which 

 about this time he fitted up in a small room at the back of our 

 dwelling-house. When he went out dredging, or collecting on 

 the rocks which he had to approach in a boat, I was not so com- 

 monly his companion. The filling of the tank and the watching 

 of the animals as they made themselves at home in its corners 

 and crevices was an unceasing source of pleasure to us both. In 



