Ѕартемвеһ 14, 1895.] 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONIC Li: 
295 
Again, he speaks of his — with him as “a 
circumstance which influe y whole career 
more than any other ” (i. 52). 'The singular beauty 
of Henslow’s character, to which Darwin himself 
bore noble testimony, would count for something, 
but it would not in itself b 
attraction seems to me to be fo ud in ' Henslow’s 
possession, in an extraordinary degre 
be called the Natural History s e 
itself into keen observation and a lively interest in 
to be looked at again; or perhaps writes & paper on 
some obvious phenomena which he could have 
studied with less fatigue in the Palm-house at 
ew. 
The secret of the right use of travel is the posses- 
sion of the natural history instinct, and to those 
who contemplate it I can only recommend a careful 
study of ee —5 ba Nothing 
i st e evaded him, or 
med tob inconiderabl for attention. No 
b ellers have lost them- 
e of тфай that have led to 
nothing. But the example of Darwin, and I might 
add of Wallace, of Huxley, and of Moseley, show 
Fig. 53.—NEW MARGUERITE CHRYSANTHEMUM X PRINCESS MAY: WHITE, WITH A YELLOW RING, 
(SEE Р, 294.) 
the facts observed. “His strongest taste was to 
draw VES p long-continued minute ob- 
servations” (i. 5 . The old natural history 
method, of w * : seems to me that Henslow was 
зо striking an t, is now, and I think 
Pie ыл а denis a thing of the past. The modern 
university student of botany puts his elders to blush 
untry hedgero 
an unfamiliar СЯ іп д hands he is pretty 
at a loss how to recognising its affinities. 
Disdaining the field of m spread at his feet in 
his own country, he either seeks salvation in а 
German la or hurries off to the Tropics, 
aaraa that he pi — once immortalise himself. 
Би“ m mutat;” he puts into 
" pickle” the same eee as his predecessors, never 
thes the — is the fault of the man and not of the 
ethod. The right puede comes w when the fruitful 
8 arrives to him е 
first strain of the 
history in the University previous to his taking up 
his residence there.” The Professor of ep had 
iv for thirty years, and though 
Sir James Smith, the founder of the Linnean Society. 
had offered his services, they were declined on the 
pm of = being a Nonconformist, * 
nslow’s own scientific work, I can but 
— on the — of those who could appreciate 
it in relation to its time, According to Berkeley, 
“ hə was certainly one of the first, if not the very 
to see that two forms of fruit might exist in 
And this, ав we now know, was 
r he held some years that 
mineralogy. Probably he owed this to I paper on 
the Isle of pes some when 
twenty-six. I n fro 
this to some Mesi à uini pated, but 
strongly ien Sedgwick's subsequent work in 
the same regio 
Boranicat Trachxd. 
Henslow's method of teaching deserves study 
n says of his lectures "that he liked them 
i ad 
Darwin 4 when at 
pagos, ‘‘indiscriminately collected overt in 
flower on the different islands, and fortunately Ке 
which d the main 
was such cases as that of the Galapagos Archipelago 
which chiefly led me to study the origin of species” 
(iii, 159 
Henslow's actual method of teaching went some 
way to poems the 3 dum of which we 
are &l so proud. “ He „бы introduce 
i the botanical n London 
the ere of practice! examinations Bat there 
* 
чеке 
with a number of wooden 
plates and other n for dissecting them after 
а rough fashion, each E emm himself with 
wh be taking his seat. Ido 
doubt — — — were, in — way, as efficient 
as we obtain now in more stately laboratories. 
The most interesting vete about his teaching 
was not, however, its academ pect, th 
he made of botany as a ge — educational instru- 
“ He always held that a man of no powers of 
observation was quite an exception.“ He thought 
(and I think he proved) that botany might be used 
* for strengthening the observant faculties and ex- 
of society," The difficulty with. which those who 
most people oak the question, ze is the use of 
learning botany unless one means to be a botanist ? 
It might indeed be replied that as pet vast msjority 
of people never learn anything effectively, they might 
as well try botany as anything else. But Henslow 
looked only to the mental discipline ; and it was 
characteristic of the man and of his belief in his 
orated. 
examination has been fatal to its s 
means of 
The teacher has to keep steadily before his e the 
* Memoir, 31. Memoir, 39. 
t Ibid., 56, € Ibid., 163. 
1 Foyage, 421 ** Toid., 99. 
$ Memoir, 161, 1t Memoir, 149. 
