Alfred Newton. xlix 
On such occasions, so self-dependent was he, he would gently repel offers of 
the assistance which was always at his service. It was only when the 
increasing feebleness of his limbs would have made such assistance indis- 
pensable that he reluctantly gave up the annual cruise. 
Continuing to hold the zoological professorship for the long space of forty- 
one years, taking also an active part in the conduct of general business, 
Alfred Newton became a distinct living force in the University. To him 
should be ascribed no small share in fostering the rise and progress of the 
natural sciences towards a recognised place in the scheme of studies of 
Cambridge. His scientific reputation in the world outside was sustained 
within the walls of the University by the stimulating and suggestive form of 
his teaching, by his enthusiastic devotion to the development of the Museum 
of Zoology, and by his untiring but not obtrusive advocacy of the claims of 
science. But his wide and beneficent influence in Cambridge sprang also in 
large measure from his strongly-marked personality, wherein kindness, 
courtesy, and fidelity, were combined with a fearless independence, an 
impatient antagonism to untruthfulness in every shape and degree, and a 
habit of frankly and forcibly expressing his convictions. 
A, G: 
