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lastingly was possible for him. The whiteness of his living 
soul and the reverent rectitude of his daily life were the onty 
talisman he needed or would have. 
To have come close to his great nature was a mental and 
moral inspiration, and to have known him thus was to love him 
always. To have absorbed some of his thought, and to have 
caught even a little of his spirit and mental methods, was a 
growth in intellectual stature. It was a high privilege that this 
institution, its faculty and students as well as the community at 
large, had his services and great personality for the three 
final years of his life, and in the zenith of his mental ripeness 
and power. His presence and labors have dedicated anew 
this spot to scholarship, and to that useful education in things 
and thoughts which his own life so well symbolized. 
As if to bless his final pilgrimage the three years he spent 
here were among the happiest and most peaceful of his life. 
Here he was reminded of his young life in England when he 
first had a home of his own. Here he found congenial com- 
panions and people who he said had time to stop and think. 
His life here was free from turmoil and he could do his best 
thinking. He found joy in the scenery, the mountains, the 
flowers and the foliage—especially of the pepper boughs; and 
the unstudied fields of geology of. the region offered him a 
hundred enticing problems. 
He had another experience here that gave him tranquil 
comfort, one that in this presence I hesitate to mention, but 
dare not omit. It was his three years of association with 
a faculty that, he many times privately said, averaged superior 
to any other he had known, in the completeness of its har- 
mony, Magnanimity, and loyalty to high aims. 
This utterance that may be considered as having come to 
us here as a final benediction from his vanishing hand, wafts 
back also his hope and prayer that such harmony and loyalty 
and magnanimity may possess all faculties of instruction ev- 
erywhere, and always. 
BIBLIOGRAPHY 
1870. 
On some Evidence in Favor of Subsidence in the South West 
Counties of England during the Present Period —Vol. V., Part 1, 
read January 12, 1870 Proceedings of the Bristol Naturalists’ So- 
ciety. 
