“ His keen dramatic instinct seized the intonation of the others, and, though his knowledge of French, German and Italian was not perfect, his conversation in those languages was what many an absolutely thorough student could only have envied. Quite apart from his scientific attainments, his knowledge of Dante was sufficient to rank him among men of literary culture. ”

“ Among his early work were descriptions of certain primitive annelids and flatworms and important researches on certain organs of the crustacea and other groups of invertebrata. At the time he was carrying on these investigations he was at first demonstrator and afterwards lecturer at Cambridge, and a word must be said about his teaching. Seldom is it given to a man to teach as Weldon taught. ”