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a man of a very remarkable combination of qualities, a 

 man of serenity, with the fire of enthusiasm within him, 

 a man with a stern sense of duty, and of the most lovable 

 and charming manner. It is not wonderful then that a 

 man so gifted should have had so great an influence upon 

 him. Professor Henslow did not make any great discoveries 

 in science, but he discovered one thing, namely, the fact 

 that Charles Darwin had a mind worthy of cultivation. 

 That was a fact that somehow or other escaped the notice 

 of Dr. Robert Darwin, and also I am afraid of some other 

 people at Shrewsbury. We all know that Henslow did 

 much to form that mind and did much to give him the 

 chance of his lifetime in the Beagle voyage ; and Charles 

 Darwin never forgot the debt of gratitude that he owed 

 to Henslow, whom he used to speak of as his " dear 

 old master." But 1 am afraid that he was somewhat 

 ungrateful, or that he forgot the debt of gratitude he also 

 owed to the University that gave him that master. He 

 ought to have remembered, being a Cambridge man, the 

 motto, Qui facit per alium facit per se. On the strength of 

 that motto I think Cambridge may claim the glory of having 

 trained Charles Darwin. 



I wish to say a few words in my private capacity, as to 

 my father's relations with this Society. I think the Linnean 

 was the only Society except the Geological for which he had 

 a personal feeling. He had of course that loyalty and 

 respect for the Royal Society which all her Fellows feel. 

 But with the Linnean there was a closer bond. It is a 

 melancholy fact that he only sent one paper to the Royal 

 Society for publication, while the volumes of the Linnean 

 Society are full of some of his very best work, such things 

 as the papers on Orchids, on Dimorphic Plants, Climbing- 

 Plants, and so on. It was in the course of this long series 

 of publications that the mutually pleasant relationship with 

 this Society grew up, which was to my father a source of 

 real satisfaction. 



Finally, I beg leave, in the name of the assembled 



