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old age show a rare sea- weed with as much triumph 

 as his well-earned medals, and talk over a tiny 

 spore-capsule with as much zest as the records of 

 sieges and battles. AVhy not ? That temper which 

 made him a good soldier may very well have made 

 him a good naturalist also. The greatest living 

 English geologist, Sir Eoderick Murchison, is also 

 an old Peninsular officer. I doubt that with him, 

 too, the experiences of war may have helped to 

 fit him for the studies of peace. Certainly, the 

 best naturalist, as far as logical acumen, as well 

 as earnest research, is concerned, whom England 

 has ever seen, was the Devonshire squire. Colonel 

 George jMontagu, of whom Mr. E. Eorbes* well 

 says, that " had he been educated a physiologist " 

 (and not, as he was, a soldier and a sportsman), 

 " and made the study of nature his aim and not 

 his amusement, his would have been one of the 

 greatest names in the whole range of British science." 



* " British Star-fishes." This delightful writer, and eager 

 investigator, has just died, in the prime of life, from disease con- 

 tracted (it is said) during a scientific journey in Asia Minor : one 

 more martyr to the knight-errantry of science. 



