3 AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 



little about many subjects. Dr. Coldstream was a 

 very different young man, prim, formal, highly re- 

 ligious, and most kind-hearted ; he afterwards pub- 

 lished some good zoological articles. A third young 

 man was Hardie, who would, I think, have made a 

 good botanist, but died early in India. Lastly, Dr. 

 Grant, my senior by several years, but how I became 

 acquainted with him I cannot remember ; he published 

 some first-rate zoological papers, but after coming to- 

 London as Professor in University College, he did 

 nothing more in science, a fact which has always been 

 inexplicable to me. I knew him well ; he was dry 

 and formal in manner, with much enthusiasm beneath 

 this outer crust. He one day, when we were walking 

 together, burst forth in high admiration of Lamarck 

 and his views on evolution. I listened in silent as- 

 tonishment, and as far as I can judge without any 

 effect on my mind. I had previously read the ' Zoo- 

 nomia ' of my grandfather, in which similar views are 

 maintained, but without producing any effect on me_ 

 Nevertheless it is probable that the hearing rather 

 early in life such views maintained and praised may 

 have favoured my upholding them under a different 

 form in my ' Origin of Species.' At this time I 

 admired greatly the ' Zoonomia ; ' but on reading it a 

 second time after an interval of ten or fifteen years, I 

 was much disappointed ; the proportion of speculation 

 being so large to the facts given. 



Drs. Grant and Coldstream attended much to 

 marine Zoology, and I often accompanied the former 

 to collect animals in the tidal pools, which I dissected 



