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Unfortunately the method was not so successful 

 with smaller minds. Once in 1852, when he had to 

 report unfavourably on a paper for the Annals of 

 Natural History on the structure of the Starfishes, 

 sent in by an acquaintance, he felt it right not to 

 conceal his action, as he might have done, behind 

 the referee's usual screen of anonymity, but to write 

 a frank account of the reasons which had led him so 

 to report, that he might both clear himself of the 

 suspicion of having dealt an unfair blow in the dark, 

 and give his acquaintance the opportunity of correct- 

 ing and enlarging his paper with a view of submitting 

 it again for publication. 



In this case the only result was an impassioned 

 correspondence, the author even going so far as to 

 suggest that Huxley had condemned the paper with- 

 out having so much as dissected an Echinoderm in 

 his life ! and then all intercourse ceased, till years 

 afterwards the gentleman in question realised the 

 weaknesses of his paper and repented him of his 

 wrath. 



Before leaving London to begin his work at 

 Tenby as Naturalist to the Survey, he delivered at 

 St. Martin's Hall, on July 22, an address on 

 the " Educational Value of the Natural History 

 Sciences." 1 This, when it came out later as a 



1 The subsequent reference is to the words, " I cannot but think 

 that he who finds a certain proportion of pain arid evil inseparably 

 woven up in the life of the very worms will bear his own share 

 with more courage and submission ; and will, at any rate, view 

 with suspicion those weakly amiable theories of the divine govern- 



