50 Sedgwick. 
Sedgwick ; and further information is expected from the publi- 
cation of a Synoptic Catalogue, to which Salter gave some o 
his latest aid. 
Never was a man so universally welcome among the mem- 
bers, and especially the junior members of his own university. 
Wonderful was the enjoyment of a voyage to Ely with a 
happy crew of his pupils (1850). If one stopped at Upware, 
the oolite there uplifted became the topic of an amusing and 
instructive discourse ; the great cathedral was visited in a more 
serious mood ; the shores rang with the merriment of the return- 
ing boat; and the evening closed with a joyous banquet in the 
hospitable college rooms. 
uring his long tenure of a fellowship in Trinity College, Prof. 
Sedgwick witnessed great changes in the mathematical training, 
and contributed as much as any man to the present favorable 
condition of science in Cambridge. 
To defend the University against hasty imputations, to main- 
tain a high standard of moral philosophy, and a dignified pre- 
ference for logical induction to alluring hypothesis, was always 
in his thoughts. Hence the “ Discourse on the Studies of the 
University of Cambridge,” at first an eloquent sermon, grew by 
prefix and suffix toa volume which he himself likened to a wasp 
—large in front and large behind, with a very fashionable 
waist. 
Under such feelings he spoke out against the “ Vestiges of 
Creation” with a fervor of argument and declamation which 
must have astonished the unacknowledged author of that once 
popular speculation. Nor was he silent when the views of Dar- 
win came to fill the void places of biological theory, against 
which he not only used a pen of steel but made great use of his 
heavy hammer. 
The vigor—vehemence we may call it—of his pen and tongue, 
in a matter which touched his sense of justice, morals, or relig- 
ion, might mislead one who did not thoroughly know his truth 
‘and gentleness of heart, to suppose that anger was mixed with 
‘his honest indignation— 
ov yap petdcyoc eoxe , . . ev dai Avypn 
But it was quite otherwise. In a letter addressed to the writer, 
in reply to some suggestion of the kind, he gave the assurance 
that he was resolved “no ill blood” should be caused by the 
discussion which had become inevitable. 
He never failed in courtesy to the honest disputant whose 
arguments he mercilessly ‘‘contunded.” Taken altogether, Pro- 
fessor ick was a man of grand proportion, cast in a heroic 
mould. Pressed in early life through a strict course of study, 
he found himself stronger by that training than most of his fel- 
low geologists, but never made them feel his superiority. Fa- 
