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article upon Annelids appeared. My own studies had been zoolo- 

 gical from my early years, but I remember as a student feeling 

 non-plussed when Professor Baynes asked me the name of the 

 best authority upon the Annelids. " I have asked a Dr. 

 Mcintosh to write the article on that subject " he said to me. Stran- 

 gely enough I became most intimately associated with Dr. 

 Mcintosh, who is known in scientific circles all the world over as the 

 greatest living authority upon the Annelids. As a student, 

 assistant, and, later, as collaborator, much of my professional 

 career has been spent under that distinguished scientist's auspices. 

 As a young naturalist I did not know of the great repute of my 

 future teacher and master but Professor Baynes did. As a 

 Shakespearean scholar Professor Baynes ranked high. His 

 college lectures were remarkable for their erudite critical qualities, 

 combined with the most impressive, indeed, imposing descriptive 

 power. When treating a great tragedy like "King Lear" the 

 spell-bound student-audience seemed to see not merely the play 

 of human forces — the mortal on an earthly stage — but the very 

 elemental powers, the immortal and undying forces of the universe 

 exhibiting themselves on the stage of Eternity. In the English 

 Literature course at St. Andrews numberless students had awak- 

 ened within them for the first time an awe-inspired devotion to 

 Shakespeare, which will last for life. Professor Baynes was the 

 most impressive and fascinating lecturer upon English Literature 

 whom I have ever heard, and I have listened to the best expounders of 

 our time, including Masson, Arnold, Hutton, Morley and others. 

 His article on Shakespeare is the only contribution in the Encyclo- 

 paedia from his own pen, and it is one of the finest things ever 

 written upon the world's greatest dramatist. Baynes was a 

 worshipper of Shakespeare, and his students had many proofs 

 of it, but Shirley's "Table Talk" affords one example — a letter 

 from Baynes written in 1854 from which I make this extract: — 

 " When you come to town on your way west — I have a mask 

 of Shakespeare's face that I want to show you. It is taken in 

 plaster from the bust in Stratford Church, which Chantry believed 

 to have been executed from a- cast taken after death. However 

 this may be, it is to me self-identifying — the authentic Shakes- 

 peare with a high, smooth oval brow, mild features, 



and a Grecian god-like calm upon the face — no strong individuality 

 expressed, but infinite possibilities — the calm mirror of all indi- 

 viduality — the universal poet. This is given in the Stratford 



