Ihe University, who were attached to science, used to meet in the evening. I soon got, through Fox, an invitation, and went there regu-larly. Before long 1 became well acquainted with Henslow, and dur· ing the latter half of my time at Cambridge look long walks with of the Thirty-nine Articles were of vanity or other petty feeling; and 1 never saw a or his own concerns. His of Cambridge almost as horrid a scene, as could have of Hitcham. My I intimacy with such a man ought to : him on most days; so that I was called by some of the dons 'the man who walks with Henslow'; and in the evening I was very often asked to join his family dinner. His knowledge was great in botany, ento- mology. chemistry, mineralogy. and geology. His strongest taste was to draw conclusions from long-continued minute observations. His

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Ihe University, who were attached to science, used to meet in the evening. I soon got, through Fox, an invitation, and went there regu-larly. Before long 1 became well acquainted with Henslow, and dur· ing the latter half of my time at Cambridge look long walks with of the Thirty-nine Articles were of vanity or other petty feeling; and 1 never saw a or his own concerns. His of Cambridge almost as horrid a scene, as could have of Hitcham. My I intimacy with such a man ought to

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Ihe University, who were attached to science, used to meet in the evening. I soon got, through Fox, an invitation, and went there regularly. Before long 1 became well acquainted with Henslow, and dur· ing the latter half of my time at Cambridge look long walks with him on most days; so that I was called by some of the dons 'the man who walks with Henslow'; and in the evening I was very often asked to join his family dinner. His knowledge was great in botany, entomology. chemistry, mineralogy. and geology. His strongest taste was to draw conclusions from long-continued minute observations. His judgement was excellent, and his whole mind well-balanced; but I do not suppose that anyone would say that he possessed much original gemus.