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placed where some of his warm friends would inscribe it, along with those of 

 Aristotle, Linnaeus, Cuvier, Owen, and Goodsir. But it would be unjust so 

 to estimate him. It must be remembered that he passed away ere reaching 

 his prime, and he must be tried, not merely by what in his short life time he 

 did himself, but by the ideas winch, scattered by him broadcast over the world, 

 have sprung up and are bearing fruit in many lands. He did more, perhaps, 

 than any other man of his day to spread abroad a love for natural history ; 

 more undoubtedly than any one of his contemporaries to indicate how natural 

 history and geology must be woven together. The name of Edward Forbes will 

 go down to posterity inseparably linked with the history of palaeontology, as one 

 of the greatest naturalists that ever strove to bring his knowledge of the living 

 world to elucidate the physical and organic changes of the past history of the 

 earth. 



" He attained this high eminence not as a solitary worker. In nothing was 

 his career more marked than in the power he possessed of interesting others 

 in his field of labour. His broad philosophical spirit enabled him to appreciate 

 the researches of the chemist and the physicist, and in return he drew their 

 sympathy with him into his own domain. In bearing down all jealousy and 

 envy among his fellow naturalists, and enlisting their active co-operation in the 

 common cause, he stood forth conspicuous among the scientific men of his 

 time ; and this he accomplished not so much by the weight of his authority as 

 by the influence of his manly, true-hearted nature. On no phase of the life 

 of Edward Eorbes does it seem needful to lay greater stress than on this ; for 

 on no other ground can we account for the great influence which he exercised, 

 not in scientific circles only, but in society at large. It was not his mental 

 powers, great though these were, nor his vast knowledge of those branches of 

 science which he made his especial study, that gained him the love and respect 

 of all men, but a simple, kindly heart that knew no selfishness, and embraced 

 in its wide and generous sympathy all that was honourable and good." 



Handbook for Travellers in North Wales. London : John Murray, 1861. 



Of Dr. Bevan's Handbook for South Wales we have already spoken in terms 

 of praise, and we are not less disposed to accord to the present work a less 

 mead of just enconium. The Handbook of North Wales contains not only 

 information for the general traveller or excursionist, but also useful matter for 

 the geologist. Within the last two years the district has been made more 

 accessible to the tourist by the construction of new railways, which, although 

 not so numerous as in the southern portion of Wales, have already been, and 

 are likely to be still more, instrumental in developing the resources of the 

 country. Dr. Bevan arranges his book very much in the same, way as his 

 former one, commencing with an introduction, in which he first describes the 

 physical features ; then devoting a section to its geology ; after which, com- 

 merce and manufactures, antiquities, communications, and a glossary of Welch 

 words (the last highly necessary for the stranger Englishman). The doctor 

 then devotes another section to " Points of Interest for the Geologist," and 

 cue to the " Comparative Heights of Mountains," concluding the introduction 

 with " Chief Places of Interest" and " Skeleton Routes." Then of course 

 follows the main mass of the hand-book, giving the routes and the descriptions 

 of the places which travellers are likely to visit. Everything worth seeing 

 or knowing, from the curious Elizabethan pigeon-house at Llanengrad to the 

 manner of raising the famous Menai Bridge, is most curtly and concisely jotted 

 down by our indefatigable and pleasant author. 



