uses have
been invented since the time of Brooke.]

[Footnote 62: Ehrenberg (1795-1876): a German naturalist noted for his
studies of Infusoria.]

[Footnote 63: Bailey of West Point (1811-1857): an American naturalist
noted for his researches in microscopy.]

[Footnote 64: enterprise of laying down the telegraph-cable: the first
Atlantic telegraph-cable between England and America was laid in 1858 by
Cyrus W. Field of New York. Messages were sent over it for a few weeks;
then it ceased to act. A permanent cable was laid by Mr. Field in 1866.]

[Footnote 65: Dr. Wallich (1786-1854): a Danish botanist and member of
the Royal Society.]

[Footnote 66: Mr. Sorby: President of the Geological Society of
England, and author of many papers on subjects connected with physical
geography.]

[Footnote 67: Sir Charles Lyell (1797-1875): a British geologist, and
one of the first to uphold Darwin's Origin of Species.]

[Footnote 68: Echinus: the sea-urchin; an animal which dwells in a
spheroidal shell built up from polygonal plates, and covered with sharp
spines.]

[Footnote 69: Somme: a river of northern France which flows into the
English Channel northeast of Dieppe.]

[Footnote 70: the chipped flints of Hoxne and Amiens: the rude
instruments which were made by primitive man were of chipped flint.
Numerous discoveries of large flint implements have been made in the
north of France, near Amiens, and in England. The first noted flint
implements were discovered in Hoxne, Suffolk, England, 1797. Cf. Evans'
Ancient Stone Implements and Lyell's Antiquity of Man.]

[Footnote 71: Rev. Mr. Gunn (1800-1881): an English naturalist. Mr.
Gunn sent from Tasmania a large number of plants and animals now in the
British Museum.]

[Footnote 72: "the whirligig of time": cf. Shakespeare, Twelfth Night,
Act V, se. I, l. 395.]

[Footnote 73: Euphrates and Hiddekel: cf. Genesis ii, 14.]

[Footnote 74: the great river, the river of Babylon: cf. Genesis xv, 18]

[Footnote 75: Without haste, but without rest: from Goethe's Zahme
Xenien. In a letter to his sister, Huxley says: "And then perhaps by the
following of my favorite motto,--

"'Wie das Gestirn,
Ohne Hast,
Ohne Rast'--

something may be done, and some of Sister Lizzie's fond
imaginations turn out not altogether untrue." The quotation entire
is as follows:--

Wie das Gestirn,
Ohne Hast,
Aber ohne Rast,
Drehe sich jeder