154 MEMOIR OF THE LATE PROF. E. HODGKINSON_, F.R.S. 



cultivated intelligence, unwearied perseverance, and a kind 

 and an affectionate heart. He discharged every relation of 

 life with fidelity, and has left behind him a name great in 

 the annals of science, reflecting every manly virtue, and 

 unsullied by any act of meanness. He was, however, very 

 jealous of the products of his own mental labours, which 

 he regarded as personal property; and was also equally 

 just in the use of the mental property of other cultivators 

 of science, as he would not appropriate the conclusions of 

 any man without due acknowledgment. 



If he did entertain any hostile feeling, it was against 

 those who, as he conceived, were unscrupulous in their ap- 

 propriation of the fruit of other men^s brains. His sense 

 of justice would not allow him to show the slightest sym- 

 pathy with this class of offenders. 



The efficiency of Mr. Hodgkinson^s lectures at Uni- 

 versity College, and of his oral instruction generally, was 

 somewhat circumscribed by his hesitancy of speech. This 

 peculiarity interfered with his usefulness as a speaker and 

 teacher, and rendered his explanations of subjects, even 

 those wdth which he was most familiar, somewhat tedious 

 to the student. And it is perhaps one of the greatest 

 evidences that can be recorded of the power of his mind, 

 that he was thought worthy, in spite of his embarrassed 

 address and slowness of speech, to be installed in a pro- 

 fessorial chair in one of the leading scientific colleges 

 of the kingdom. As a relaxation from severe mental toil, 

 he cultivated a taste for general literature and the archi- 

 tecture of the middle ages. Of late years he frequently 

 travelled, both on the Continent and in the British Empire, 

 to examine those stupendous cathedrals and other public 

 buildings which adorn Western Europe, and which testify 

 to the good taste, piety, and intellectual culture of the age 

 in which they were built. He was fond also of investi- 

 gating the remains of antiquity. And, what is valued 



