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have been always an observant man, and he was not long in 
turning the opportunities afforded by travel to good account. 
By degrees he developed a taste for art, especially for 
sculpture, and for architecture. He became more and more 
interested in literature; and, eventually, he contrived to 
gain no small amount of knowledge of various branches of 
science. 
As soon as his income permitted, he obtained the best oral 
instruction his means at the time could command, and as his 
memory was particularly retentive almost up to the day of 
his death, he acquired a good general knowledge of a wide 
range of subjects. 
In science, it is well known that Mr Jenner had long 
taken considerable interest in botany. Indeed, he knew a 
great deal about the structure and the life-history of certain 
branches of the Cryptogams some years before that part of 
the subject had begun to attract much attention in this 
country. His interest in the lower forms of vegetable life 
continued until after he was turned eighty, and I know that 
he made the best endeavour failing eyesight would permit to 
read through the last English edition of Sach’s “ Botany,” 
which he did with his microscope beside him. Every visitor 
to Easter Duddingstone Lodge must have been more or less 
delighted with the wonderfully fine botanical garden he had 
made there. It was for a long time, and perhaps it is still, 
one of the best of its kind in existence. Mr Lindsay and 
others have already described this in some detail, and there- 
fore no more need be said on this occasion. 
Amongst other sciences, Mr Jenner for several years took 
much interest in geology. He used to take oral instruction 
in the field from the best teachers he could attract to himself, 
and, as he was above all things a practical man, nothing 
short of seeing and judging of geological facts for himself 
would ever satisfy him. He was a man of whom it may 
fairly be said that he carried originality sometimes to an 
extreme. This was true of him in his science work as much 
as in the ordinary affairs of everyday life. Little wonder 
need be felt under these circumstances if a man who had 
been always accustomed to observe, think, and act for 
