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Pattison to damp one's energies. Fortunately as a science 
man one is allowed—even expected—to be energetic to a 
certain extent.’ And energetic he is to an extent that at once 
brings him into prominence. ‘I am hard at work day and 
night on the lizard’s eye, and hope to make a good thing of 
it. I shall have a paper ready for the Royal Society before 
long now.’ This paper on the presence and structure of 
the pineal eye in lizards he duly reads before the Royal 
Society on June io, incidentally peeping in at the Academy, 
where he finds ‘only one or two pictures which you really 
care to spend much time with.’ In October he writes: 
‘By good luck together with Moseley’s kindness I have been able to 
get out an article which is attracting some little attention among 
biologists. It concerns the presence of an extra eye in Lizards on the 
top of their heads, and is of interest from an Evolution point of view, 
explaining the presence of a most mysterious part of the brain in all 
the higher animals, even ourselves. ... In a short time I am to give 
an evening lecture at the Royal Institution in town on the subject.’ 
Things are moving rapidly with him, however, for next 
month he is getting together testimonials for the Professor¬ 
ship of Biology at Melbourne. He is strongly supported 
by Milnes Marshall, Roscoe, and Williamson from Man¬ 
chester, and by Moseley, Lankester, Tylor, and other 
prominent men at Oxford, not to speak of numerous fellow- 
students, including G. C. Bourne and H. Balfour, as well as 
undergraduates whom he has taught. Milnes Marshall calls 
him the ‘best student I ever had’; Moseley refers to his 
teaching ability, wonderful drawing, and talent for research. 
The undergraduates testify to his clear way of putting things 
and his readiness to help them forward to original work, 
while, once more, his draughtsmanship is lauded. He inter¬ 
views the Agent-General for Victoria who ‘looked as much 
as to say, “Who the — are you, Sir?” ’, but contented him¬ 
self with rather pointedly inquiring about his age; which, it 
