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Cambridge, where he had a successful career, coming out first in the 

 Natural Science Tripos of 1862, and fifteenth Wrangler. He was 

 a pupil of Sedgwick, and it was not improbably the influence of 

 that great teacher which ultimately determined the line of his 

 favourite pursuits. The son of a clergyman, he himself took holy 

 orders, and held one or two curacies in succession, until, in 1 865, 

 he was appointed Mathematical Master and Assistant Chaplain at 

 St. Peter's School, York, where he continued for nine years. He 

 had early distinguished himself in Mathematics, having carried off 

 the first prize in that subject at Christ's Hospital. His love for 

 science had been growing during his stay at York, and he at last 

 resigned his post there, at the same time relinquishing all clerical 

 work in order to prosecute scieuce as his vocation. Por some years 

 he gave courses of lectures at various institutions and on various 

 subjects. His range of acquirement was wide, and he found oppor- 

 tunities of exercising it. Thus for four years he lectured on Com- 

 parative Anatomy at the Charing Cross Hospital, and during that 

 period he also gave a course of lectures on the same subject at 

 King's College. He united the qualifications, not usually found in 

 the same individual, of accomplishment both on the biological and 

 on the mathematical and physical sides of science. 



These exceptional claims were recognized in 1880 by his appoint- 

 ment as Professor of Natural Science at University College, Not- 

 tingham, where for eight years he continued to teach and organize 

 his museum. But circumstances arose which made the post no 

 longer agreeable to him, and he then removed to London, where for 

 some years he became a frequent contributor to the ' Geological 

 Magazine ' and our Quarterly Journal. He also started at that 

 time a periodical of his own, called by him ' Annals of Geology,' 

 in which he gave summaries of the more important contributions to 

 geological literature in each year, not unaccompanied with pungent 

 criticisms of them by himself. This work he continued to issue for 

 four years (1890-93), until, from want of adequate support, it was 

 abandoned. 



In 1895 he was invited to Baroda, to form and arrange the State 

 Museum there. He took occasion when in India to look into the 

 geology of certain tracts, and on his return published papers on 

 some of the geological features of Cutch. Back in London, he 

 plunged once more into the scientific work which had now become 

 so congenial to him. But those who came into most frequent contact 

 with him noticed some diminution of his former energy and vivacity. 

 His wife, the youngest daughter of the Bev. P. F. Haslewood, 



