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is effecting important educational results in natural science among 

 classes of society excluded from regular University teaching, is Dr. 

 Carpenter's work. He wrote at this time in the interest of the public 

 health some admirable articles on vaccination, as in earlier life (1849) 

 he had from a similar point of view treated the subject of alcoholic 

 liquors, and had urged the arguments for total abstinence. When 

 past seventy years of age he did not shrink from a journey to the 

 United States, where he spoke and lectured with unflagging vigour. 

 The last public movement in which he took an active part was the 

 foundation of the Marine Biological Association, of which he was a 

 Vice-President, and which is about to carry out, by means of its 

 laboratory on Plymouth Sound, a suggestion which is traceable to his 

 own proposition for the thorough exploration and study of Milford 

 Haven. 



The abundant and noble achievements of Dr. Carpenter's public and 

 scientific career did not pass without recognition in the form of awards 

 and titles. He received in 1861 one of the Royal medals awarded by 

 the Council of the Royal Society, and in 1883 the Lyell medal of the 

 Geological Society. In 1871 he was made an honorary LL.D. of the 

 University of Edinburgh, and in 1872 he was President of the British 

 Association for the Advancement of Science when it met at Brighton. 

 In 1873 he was elected Corresponding Member of the Institute of 

 France, and on his retirement from his official position at the Univer- 

 sity of London in 1879 he was nominated C.B. 



It is impossible to do justice to Dr. Carpenter's character as a 

 scientific man in a few lines : here no attempt has been made to do 

 more than indicate in something like chronological order and con- 

 nexion of subjects the vast amount of work which he accomplished. 



Upon the present writer, whose father was his fellow-student at 

 University College, and who has enjoyed since boyhood the privilege 

 of his friendship, Dr. Carpenter always produced the most vivid 

 impression of a man of indomitable energy, who had accepted as the 

 highest duty and keenest delight of his life the promotion, whether by 

 advocacy or by research, of true knowledge. The tenacity and vigour 

 with which he was wont to expound his views on such matters of 

 research as at the time occupied his thoughts, and the importance and 

 respect which he assigned to all genuine research, were evidences of 

 an earnest and just nature which evoked sympathy and esteem in all 

 men of kindred pursuits. 



In reference to Dr. Carpenter's private life and tastes, the following 

 extract from a weekly journal states, with the authority of a member 

 of his own family, what might, in its absence, have been here less 

 completely indicated. The journal to which we are thus indebted is 

 an organ of the Unitarian Church, of which body Dr. Carpenter was, 

 throughout life, an active and orthodox member, a fact which may or 



