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it with exulting delight ; for clearly there was to be 

 such an organization of scientific doctrine as the 

 world was waiting for. It appeared that there 

 was some talk of Ticknor & Fields undertaking to 

 conduct the series in case subscriptions enough 

 should be received. Spencer preferred to have his 

 works appear in Boston ; but when in the course 

 of 1860 his book on " Education " was offered to 

 Ticknor & Fields, they declined to publish it, 

 which was, of course, a grave mistake from the 

 business point of view. Youmans, however, was 

 not sorry for this, for it gave him the opportunity 

 to place Spencer's books where he could do most 

 to forward their success. 



Some years before, during his blindness, his sis- 

 ter had led him one day into the store of Messrs. 

 D. Appleton & Co. in quest of a book, and Mr. 

 William Appleton had become warmly interested 

 in him. I believe the firm now look back to this 

 chance visit as one of the most auspicious events 

 in their annals. Youmans became by degrees' a 

 kind of adviser as regarded matters of publica- 

 tion, and it was largely through his far-sighted 

 advice that the Appletons entered upon the publi- 

 cation of such books as those of Buckle, Darwin, 

 Huxley, Tyndall, Haeckel, and others of like 

 character ; always paying a royalty to the authors, 



