144 The late Professor Edward Forbes. 



clearness no envious cloud can long encumber, though, when 

 broken and dispersed, it may seem to make his brightness all 

 the more effulgent. Let them think of his simplicity, modesty, 

 freedom from arrogance and affectation, from jealousy and all 

 uncharitableness, and how he ever kept the even tenor of his 

 way, unspoiled by success, unmoved by flattery, fearless in his 

 love of truth, undaunted in his hatred of malevolence and guile. 

 Let not only the young, but also the mature, the middle-aged, 

 the ancient, think of these things.* 



" But our idle regrets," says a great and most remarkable 

 observer in the same field, " can neither restore the dead nor 

 benefit the living. Let us rather manifest our regard for the 

 memory of our illustrious brother, — taken so unexpectedly 

 from among us, — by making his disinterested devotion to 

 science our example, and by striving to catch the tone of his 

 frank and generous spirit. And seeing how very much he 

 succeeded in accomplishing within the limits of a life that has, 

 alas ! fallen short by more than thirty years of the old allotted 

 time, let us diligently carry on, in the love of truth, our not 

 unimportant labours, remembering that much may be accom- 

 plished in comparatively brief space, if no time be lost, and 

 that to each and all that ' night cometh ' at an uncertain 

 hour, under whose dense and unbroken shadow ' no man can 

 work.' " t 



* So abundant are Professor Edward Forbes' works, that we have not as yet 

 named the most complete and important of them all, — his " Natural History of 

 British Mollusca, and their shells" (in conjunction with Mr Hanley), 4 vols., 

 1848-53. His latest public efforts were made at the meeting of the British As- 

 sociation, held during last autumn at Liverpool, where he was elected President 

 of the Geological Section. One of his most recent written labours (excepting 

 his engagements with this Journal) was an article in the Quarterly Review, for 

 September 1854, on Sir Roderick Murchison's Siluria. 



t Address to the Royal Physical Society, by Hugh Miller, Esq. — Witness, 

 29th Nov. 1854. 



