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placed where some of his warm friends would inscribe it, along with those of 
Aristotle, Linnseus, 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 which, scattered by him broadcast over the world, 
have sprung up and are bearmg 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-liearted nature. On no phase of the life 
of Edward Forbes 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, m 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 
tlien devotes another section to " Points of Interest for the Geologist," and 
one 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. 
