[80] Life, Letters, and Journals, vol. i. p. 460.
[81] The weakness of his eyes was always more or less of a trouble.
[82] It is "past" in the text (Life, Letters, and Journals, vol. i. p. 468), but I think this an obvious misprint.
[83] "Life of Charles Darwin," vol. i. p. 273.
[84] Life, Letters, and Journals, vol. i. p. 475.
[85] It is but rarely that, so far as the writer has seen, this remark applies to the committees of scientific societies in London, but the amount of time thus wasted in the universities, judging from his own experience of one of them, is really melancholy.
[86] Life, Letters, and Journals, vol. ii. p. 22.
[87] Ibid., vol. ii. p. 20.
[88] Life, Letters, and Journals, vol. ii. p. 45.
[89] Though undoubtedly this severance of geology and cosmogony was very helpful at the time to the progress of the former, the justice of it may be questioned; and Lyell's approval would not be endorsed by every geologist at the present day, though probably it would still commend itself to the majority.