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theories. He c: knew his British birds" as few others did; nor was his 

 knowledge of species limited to these ; and, indeed, had he lived to 

 complete the monograph on Thysanonra, for which he had been long 

 collecting materials, this would probably have placed him in the very 

 foremost rank of British taxonomists. 



He was, as we have said, a geologist who became a biologist, but 

 his sympathies with all science remained wide and deep. His know- 

 ledge of physics, as far as it went, was singularly clear and sound ; 

 his judgment on intricate physiological questions was often of the 

 greatest use to his friends at Cambridge. He was an ardent politician, 

 he possessed great sympathy with art, and in the business of his 

 College and University, as well as in other matters, showed adminis- 

 trative abilities of the very highest order. 



He had in him all the making of a great man, and his greatness 

 would have been felt whatever had been the things to which he 

 turned his hand ; and no small part of the power with which, even in 

 his few years, he had already begun to influence others, sprang from 

 'those qualities which, by a common but misleading analysis, we call 

 Amoral as distinguished from intellectnal. According to the degree 

 E ".o which their intimacy with him grew, those who got to know him 

 ^ *vere charmed with his kindly courteousness, fascinated with his bril- 

 ls 'iant, cheerful, often playful, companionship, held fast by his warm- 

 hearted, steadfast friendship. The feeble found him a patient helper; 

 P meanness, untruthfulness, and conceited stupidity were alone able 

 to provoke him to anger, and to show what powers of scorn and 

 sarcasm lay hidden in him. 



Though he died so young, his great merits were already rapidly 

 gaining due recognition. He became a Fellow of the Society in 

 June, 1878 ; on him, in November, 1881, was bestowed one of the 

 Royal medals, and at the same time he was elected member of Council. 

 In the spring of 1881 he received the honorary LL.D. of Glasgow, 

 and at the time of his death he was President of the Cambridge 

 Philosophical Society, having been elected to that position in October, 

 1881. 



We have already spoken of the eagerness shown both at Oxford 

 and Edinburgh to gain him, and of the steps taken at his own Uni- 

 versity to keep him. For one brief term only was he professor, and 

 even during that term, owing to his previous illness, he gave no 

 lectures ; now, instead of his bright presence, there is left at Cam- 

 bridge only his memory and the wish to carry on the work he left 

 undone. 



M. F. 



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