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Excerpt from Notes by a Naturalist on the Challenger, Being an Account of Various Observations Made During the Voyage of Challenger Around the World, in the Years 1872-1876, Under the Commands of Capt. Sir G. S, Nares and Capt. F. T, Thomson
His school life was thoroughly characteristic of the future naturalist: the boy was true father of the man. His school career was always creditable, though not brilliant, ending in the lower Sixth. He had plenty of ability, but his heart was already given to the study of external nature, and our Harrow course did not then comprehend Natural Science as it did afterwards. But his time at Harrow was by no means thrown away 5 he followed his own bent very freely, collecting and experimenting in all his spare hours. He had many friends, and no enemies 3 but W. Warden, Who came to Harrow just after him, but was somewhat senior in age and standing, was his devoted chum, and shared his pursuits. I was able to give them a large room together for some time, a little detached from other boys, and this formed a regular laboratory not always of the sweetest - for experiments on plants, preserva tion of insects, etc. The interest and the ''stinks of that room were a delight or a horror to the house, and I sometimes feared that I should have to interfere on sanitary grounds. But we managed to let things alone, and the future professor developed his powers there admirably.
No doubt, in this case, a wise master was better than the best equipped science school.
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His school life was thoroughly characteristic of the future naturalist: the boy was true father of the man. His school career was always creditable, though not brilliant, ending in the lower Sixth. He had plenty of ability, but his heart was already given to the study of external nature, and our Harrow course did not then comprehend Natural Science as it did afterwards. But his time at Harrow was by no means thrown away 5 he followed his own bent very freely, collecting and experimenting in all his spare hours. He had many friends, and no enemies 3 but W. Warden, Who came to Harrow just after him, but was somewhat senior in age and standing, was his devoted chum, and shared his pursuits. I was able to give them a large room together for some time, a little detached from other boys, and this formed a regular laboratory not always of the sweetest - for experiments on plants, preserva tion of insects, etc. The interest and the ''stinks of that room were a delight or a horror to the house, and I sometimes feared that I should have to interfere on sanitary grounds. But we managed to let things alone, and the future professor developed his powers there admirably.
No doubt, in this case, a wise master was better than the best equipped science school.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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H. N. Moseley
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ISBN - 9780364709764
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