FOOTNOTES:
[157] In this paragraph I have ventured to quote largely, and more or less verbatim, from the words of Miss Buckley (Lyell's secretary) in the article on his life, written by my friend Professor G. A. J. Cole, in the "Dictionary of National Biography," vol. xxxiv.
[158] "Life of Sir A. Ramsay," by Sir A. Geikie, chap. v.
[159] Vidi tantum, when his powers were beginning to fail, but it is this expression which is stamped on my mind as characteristic of the face in Charles Lyell, and, I may add, also in Charles Darwin.
[160] J. W. Dawson, cited in the " Dictionary of National Biography."
[161] Ut suprà.
[162] I may add my own testimony. When the second edition of the "Student's Elements" was passing through the press. I ventured to write to him about one or two petrological details, which I thought might be more precise. Though at that time I had published but few papers, I received more than one kind letter with the request that I would read some of the proof-sheets of the book and suggest alterations.
[163] "The Origin of Species," published in 1859.
[164] "Life and Letters of C. Darwin," ii. p. 326.
[165] Quoted in Life, Letters, and Journals, ii. p. 461.