THE LATE SIR. CLEMENTS MAla:HAM. [To THE EDITOR. OF THE
"SPECTATOR."'
Sin,—May I recall to memory the words spoken by Charlea Kingsley at the introductory meeting of the Clifton College Scientilic Society, founded on June 25th, 1869 Ps -
" If this College museum could produce but one master of !matinee knowledge like Murchison - or Lyon, Owen or Huxley, Faraday or Grove, or even one great discoverer like Ross or Baker or Speke, whs has just solved the mystery of ages, the mystery after which Lucite makes Julius Caesar long as tho summit of his ambition —ta leave others to conquer nations while he -himself sought -for the hidden sources of the Nile—or if it should even produce one man able and learned enough to do such a deed as that performed by my friend Clements, Markham, who penetrated, in the face of 'danger and death, the trackless forests of time Andes, to bring home thence those plants of Peruvian bark, which now, planted into Hindostan, will save the lives of tens of thousands, English and Hindoos, then all the trouble, all the care, which shall have been spent on this museum —I had almost said, upon this whole College—will have been welt repaid."
St. John's Wood, NM.
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