did not know Wallace that the noble generosity which will
always stand as an example before the world was something
special--called forth by the illustrious man with whom he was brought in
contact. This would be a great mistake. Wallace's attitude was
characteristic, and characteristic to the end of his life.

"A keen young naturalist in the North of England, taking part in an
excursion to the New Forest, called on Wallace and confided to him the
dream of his life--a first-hand knowledge of tropical nature. When I
visited 'Old Orchard' in the summer of 1903, I found that Wallace was
intently interested in two things: his garden, and the means by which
his young friend's dream might best be realised. The subject was
referred to in seventeen letters to me; it formed the sole topic of some
of them. It was a grand and inspiring thing to see this great man
identifying himself heart and soul with the interests of one--till then
a stranger--in whom he recognised the passionate longings of his own
youth. By the force of sympathy he re-lived in the life of another the
splendid years of early manhood."

The late Prof. Knight recalled meeting him at the British Association in
Dundee, during the year 1867, when Wallace was his guest for the usual
time of the gathering. He wrote:

I, and everyone else who then met him at my house, were struck, as
no one could fail to be, by his rare urbanity, his social charm,
his modesty, his unobtrusive strength, his courtesy in explaining
matters with which he was himself familiar but those he conversed
with were not; and his abounding interest, not only in almost
every branch of Science, but in human knowledge in all its phases,
especially new ones. He was a many-sided scientific man, and had a
vivid sense of humour. He greatly enjoyed anecdote, as
illustrative of character. During those days he talked much on the
fundamental relations between Science and Philosophy, as well as
on the connection of Poetry with both of them. When he left Dundee
he went to Kenmore, that he might ascend Ben Lawers in search of
some rare ferns.

In 1872 I saw him, after meeting Thomas Carlyle and Dean Stanley
at Linlathen, when Darwin's theory was much discussed, and when
our genial host--Mr. Erskine--talked so dispassionately but
decidedly against evolution as explanatory of the rise of what was
new. A little later in the same year Matthew