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an old friend of Sir William's ; and his son was that greatest 
of geologists who was to be the early inspirer of Darwin and his 
lifelong friend together with Hooker. 
Later in the same year, 1832 : 
Joseph is in the senior Latin and senior Greek, and next 
year will take logic and mathematics along with his brother. 
Wilham continues ardently devoted to ornithology, and 
Joseph to botany and entomology. The latter is already 
a fair British botanist and has a tolerable herbarium, very 
much of his own collecting. But the orchidese are his 
great favourites, and he has an eye for them, and a memory 
too for their names, which often surprises me. Had he time 
for it he would already be more useful to me than Mr. 
Klotzsch [his assistant].^ 
The removal to a new house in Glasgow, at Woodside 
Crescent, ' spirited up ' the family to an access of tidying, 
and * Joseph has taken in hand to arrange all his father's 
dupHcate plants, selecting among them for his own collection, 
and he has been pursuing this occupation with much dihgence 
for some weeks.' 
Next year, Joseph being sixteen, his father dechnes an 
invitation for him to go to the Dawson Turners' at Yarmouth, 
saying, ' the expense is very considerable for a lad who is 
scarcely old enough to derive permanent advantage from 
such a journey ; and both he and his brother have now entered 
upon studies which can scarcely with propriety be interrupted.' 
The permanent advantage of studying his gi^andfather's col- 
lections would doubtless come later, when he should be further 
advanced in his regular botanical work. 
A Httle later Sir William sends his father-in-law a parcel, 
in which is enclosed a small box of insects which Joseph is 
' very desirous of transmitting to Mr. Paget.' ^ 
The same entomological enthusiasm inspires two early 
^ S. J. Klotzsch spent some years as Sir William's curator at Glasgow, and 
was the founder of the mycological portion of the herbarium. Subsequently 
he became keeper of the Royal Herbarium at Berlin. Hooker gives an amusing 
description of his oddities in the Memoirs of his father, p. xxxiii. 
2 No doubt Charles, brother of (Sir) James Paget, the famous surgeon 
(1814-99), and one of the seventeen children of Samuel Paget, brewer and ship- 
