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—"—HOME LIFE AND WORK 269future chapter. Its publication brought me letters ofsympathy and general agreement from Sir DavidWedderburn, M.P., Lord Mount-Temple, and manyother friends and correspondents.In this year, on June 29, the Dublin Universitygave me the honorary degree of LL.D. I will heregive the very short but flattering Latin speech of thepublic orator in introducing me, with a translation bymy friend Mr. Comerford Casey"Introduco quoque Alfredum RusSEL WAL-LACE, Darwinii aemulum, immo Darwinium alterum.Neque hunc neque ilium variae eluserunt speciesatque ora ferarum. Darwinius nempe lauri foetusauricomos decerpsit primus. Sed quid querimur ?"' Primo avulso non deficit alterAureus, et simili frondescit virga metallo.' "" I introduce also Alfred Russel Wallace, thefriendly rival of Darwin, indeed, a second Darwin.Equally familiar to both are the different species andvarieties of animals. Darwin, indeed was the firstto pluck the golden laurel-branch. Yet through thisdid Wallace suffer no eclipse ; for as Virgil sangI"' One branch removed, another was to hand :Another, bright and golden as the first.'In the year 1881 I removed to Godalming, wherehad built a small cottage near the water-tower andat about the same level as the Charterhouse School.We had been partly induced to come here to be nearmy very old friend Mr. Charles Hayward, whom Ihad first known during my residence at Neath aboutforty years before. He was living with his nephew,the late C. F. Hayward, a well-known architect, whosechildren were about the same age as my own, We