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PROF. LLOYD MORGAN, F.G.S., F.R.S. 
obtained a good place in the sixth form, yet like so many 
Englishmen who have been successful in the various walks 
of life, as a boy Prof. Lloyd Morgan was better known 
for success in games and athletics than for love of work. 
In his last year he won all the senior events in the 
athletic sj)orts, a remarkable achievement, as any one who 
has been a schoolboy knows. At this time an interest in 
Natural History had already been aroused, partly through 
the influence of his uncle Woody er Buckton, Esq., a 
brother of George Buckton, F.R.S. , but his school educa- 
tion had included no science, being almost entirely classical. 
When therefore the Royal School of Mines was entered, 
in October, 1869, the various branches of study that then 
required his attention must have been singularly new, but 
to a mind like that of Prof. Lloyd Morgan were probably 
none the less stimulating. However that may be, the 
Murchison prize for geology was obtained, as well as the 
De la Beche medal for mining, the Duke of Cornwall 
scholarship, and the Associateship in mining and metallurgy. 
On leaving the Royal School of Mines it was the inten- 
tion of Prof. Lloyd Morgan to practise as a mining engineer,, 
and in order to acquire experience of the methods of dealing 
with ores underground and at the surface some months- 
were spent in Cornwall. A life, however, more purely 
scientific than that of the mining engineer was to be his 
lot. About this time an opportunity arose of visiting the 
United States and South America in the capacity of a 
tutor. This had the effect of strengthening his desire 
to learn more of geology, and an interest in biology became 
at the same time deepened. In pursuit of the former 
study three or four visits were paid to the Alps, and in 
1875 an ascent of the Matterhorn was made. But the 
interest of Prof. Lloyd Morgan was not limited to geology 
