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Your heavy private loss is then coupled in my view with a public calamity; but while I can rejoice in your retrospect of his labour, I also trust it may please God in His wisdom to raise up others to fill up his place and carry forward his work. May you enjoy the abundance of the Divine consolations in proportion to your great need.

Believe me, most truly yours,

W. E. GLADSTONE.

Not much remains to be said. The life here described would seem to have been cut short, but, as was said by a friend, 'in a short time he fulfilled a long time,' 1 and few have won for themselves more love in the home and beyond it. He left no enemy, and those who loved him and to whom his loss has left a blank and a desolation of which it is not well to speak, can only be thankful for what he was and for what he is. Not indeed that one would forget those words of Dean Church quoted in the beautiful preface to his Life: 2

'I often have a kind of waking dream: up one road, the image of a man decked and adorned as if for a triumph, carried up by rejoicing and exulting friends, who praise his goodness and achievements; and, on the other road, turned back to back to it, there is the very man himself, in sordid and squalid apparel, surrounded not by friends but by ministers of justice, and going on, while his friends are exulting, to his certain and perhaps awful judgment. That vision rises when I hear, not just and conscientious endeavours to make out a man's character, but when 1 Wisdom, iv. 13.

2 Preface to Life and Letters of Dean Church, p. xxiv.

I hear the loose things that are said-often in kindness and love-of those beyond the grave.'

But there have been men and women who have lifted the minds and the hearts of those who knew and loved them to increasing love for goodness, to increasing loftiness of ideal, and for these, whom now no praise can hurt, no blame can wound, one can but lift one's heart in ever growing thankfulness for the gifts and graces which made them what they were, and which will grow and increase in them until the Perfect Day.

Beati mundo corde, quoniam ipsi Deum videbunt.

May 23, 1895.

INDEX

ACTON, Lord, 307
Agassiz, 16, 31, 33
Allen, Grant, 57

Allman, Professor, 156, 157
Arnold, M., 85, 156

BALFOUR, Rt. Hon. A. J., 148

Mr. Francis, 15, 154
Bishop of Oxford (Wilberforce), 83
Boys, Mrs. Vernon, letter to, 315
Bramwell, Sir F., 227

British Association, 65, 73
Browning, Robert, 148, 156

Brunton, Dr. Lauder, 15, 62, 154, 347
Brydon, Dr., 4

Burney prize, won by G. J. Romanes,
9, 85

Butcher, Professor, 155, 203, 283, 295

CAIRD, Professor (now Master of
Balliol), 95, 380

Cats, sense of direction in, 112
Cautley, Rev. Proby, 6, 7

Children, poem to, 145

Church, Dean, 163, 164, 234, 371,
387

Churchill, Mr., 213

Clarke, Rev. R., S.J., 197
Clodd, E. M., 156

Compton, Earl and Countess, 290, 294,
295, 307

Correvon, Professor, 185, 216, 217
Crookes, Professor, 328, 329

Croonian Lectures, 16, 97

Curteis, Canon, 158

DARWIN, Charles, first introduction to,
13

- first meeting with, 14

Darwin, Charles, letters from, 33, 35,
36, 40, 46, 49, 51, 57, 62, 64, 68, 74,
77, 80, 88, 99, 102, 105, 106, 110,
113, 114, 119, 122, 125, 129

- letters to, 21, 22, 30, 34, 36, 41, 44,
47, 48, 52, 53, 54, 59, 63, 65, 70, 72,
73, 75, 79, 81, 89, 98, 100, 101, 103,
104, 107, 108, 109, 110, 112, 114,
117, 121, 123, 124, 126, 130, 132

quoted, 206, 210, 215, 225, 226,
228, 229, 230, 333, 350, 369
death of, 135

- memorial volume, 138

Mr. F., 8, 51, 52, 56, 58, 60, 81,
110, 135, 137, 139, 178, 180, 181,
194, 214, 329, 345

Darwin and after Darwin, 186, 298
Dawkins, Professor Boyd, 158
Delbœuf, La Psychologie, son Présent
et son Avenir, 78
Diggle, Mr., 170

Dyer, Mr. Thiselton-, 93, 209, 216, 217,
243, 330, 333, 340, 341, 344

EIMER, Dr., 46, 228, 312
Eliot, George, 49

Evidences of Organic Evolution, lec-
tures on, 68

Ewart, Professor Cossar, 15, 97, 104,
133, 156, 270, 311, 337

FABRE, M., 116, 118, 206

Flower, Sir W., 76, 328

Foster, Dr. Michael, 8, 13, 32, 39, 53

GALTON, Mr. Francis, 56, 168, 169,
243, 278, 325, 345
Germination, experiments on, 328, 353
Giard, M., 285

Gill, Mr. and Mrs., 290
Gotch (Professor), 273

Gladstone, Rt. Hon. W. E., 169, 235,
291, 292, 305, 306, 386

Gore, Rev. C., 83, 289, 295, 328, 337,
371, 380, 381

Gosse, Mr. E. W., 234, 295
Gounod, 71

Graham, Mr. H. M., M.P., 290, 295
Gray, Professor Asa, 161, 162
Green, Mr. J. R., 150

Gulick, Rev. J., 221, 222, 237, 242, 269

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Liddon, Rev. Dr., 148, 150, 168, 272,
273, 274, 276

Lincoln, Bishop of, 379
Linnean Society, 40, 122
Lister, C. E., 5, 270

Lockyer, Mr. Norman, 131, 148, 154
Logan, Mr. C., 96, 203
Lubbock, Sir John, 156
Lux Mundi, 261, 264, 275

MCKENDRICK, Professor, 96
Medusa, work on, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20,
24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33,
34, 39, 41, 48, 49

Meldola, Professor, 93

Mivart, Professor St. George, 104
Moberly, Rev. Dr., 371, 373, 374
Moore, Rev. Aubrey, 261, 262, 263,
264, 265

Morgan, Professor Lloyd C., 337
Murray, Mrs. T. M., 96
Myers, Mr. F. W., 82

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REDE LECTURE, 160

Romanes, Rev. Dr., 1, 2

Major R., 96

- Mr., 1, 9, 97

Sully, Mr., 101, 294

TAIT, LAWSON, 22

Talbot, Dr., 337

Miss C. E., letters to, 67, 134, 149, Taylor, Canon Isaac, 312, 317
151, 169, 175, 186, 192, 194

Miss Georgina, 71

Mrs. G. J., letters to, 94, 159, 170,
196, 271-276, 278, 281-283, 291,
317-323, 376

Teesdale, Mr. J. M., 103, 104, 134
Theism, a Candid Examination of, 86,
156, 160, 161, 372

Thompson, Sir W. (Lord Kelvin), 95
Thoughts on Religion, 372

Mr. James, letters to, 12, 158, 197, Turner, George, 170, 276

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Schäfer, Professor, letters to, 23, 26, Wallace, Mr., 57, 93, 179, 214, 215,

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