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volume of the Bay Society's publications ; and his mono- 

 graph on the structure of the feather-star. He was a dili- 

 gent student and a powerful writer on every point connect- 

 ed with the use and improvement of the microscope, and 

 he devoted much thought and attention to the difficult pro- 

 blems of ocean currents. 



" But a little knowledge or reflection will make it obvious 

 that Dr. Carpenter made numerous personal investigations 

 in every branch of animal biology ; this is, indeed, suffi- 

 ciently evident from the fact that, although his great and 

 widely known works on human physiology and on the mi- 

 croscope were first published long before the biological 

 sciences had attained their present magnitude, they were 

 based on knowledge so wide and were so thoughtfully ela- 

 borated, that editions of both are still called for, and are still 

 necessary to every advanced student. 



"In addition to such honours as the fellowship of the 

 Eoyal Society, the presidency of various societies, and an 

 honorary doctorate of laws from his old university of Edin- 

 burgh, Dr. Carpenter was a corresponding member of the 

 Institute of France and of the American Philosophical So- 

 ciety, and a C.B. He leaves a widow and several children, 

 some of whom are well known as men of science, to lament 

 his loss. Dying in his seventy-third year, respected and re- 

 gretted by all who knew him, he was an example of arduous 

 devotion to duty and of single-minded love of science such 

 as the world will not easily forget." 



We may conclude with the following vivid sketch of 

 Dr. Carpenter, contributed by Dr. Bay Lankester to the 

 Academy : — " Dr. Carpenter embraced early in life the 

 profession of a student and teacher of biological science, 

 and he never ceased to work with marvellous industry and 

 extreme ability at the tasks which had thus become to him 

 a duty. His interest in the problems which he had helped 

 by his researches to solve, or by his speculations to simplify, 

 was so keen that they were ever the chief occupation of his 

 thoughts and conversation. Where another might have 

 indulged in some trivial dialogue, Dr. Carpenter would, 

 with a vivacity and sincerity that were the outcome of a 



