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MR. CLODD is well known to readers of NATURE as one who has most successfully introduced the discoveries and generalisations of various departments of science to innumerable readers—old and young. In “the course of a long and active life he has made friends with a remarkable number of noteworthy people, being richly endowed with the “genius for friendship.” One has only to look through the table of contents of his “Memories” to see how the sympathy of the author reaches out to very diverse types, and there is scarcely a name on the list which does not stand for pre-eminence in literature, art, or science. There are constant references to the pleasant Whitsuntide gatherings under Mr. Clodd's hospitable roof at Aldeburgh, where kindred spirits, but of diverse aptitudes, exchange ideas on all imaginable subjects when eating, smoking, walking, or cruising with their skipper-host in the Lotus. To some extent the book is a series of reminiscences of talks on such occasions. The fragment of his own autobiography that Mr. Clodd gives as a sort of preface is interesting reading, and affords a clue to the particular direction of his intellectual activity.
Memories.
By Edward Clodd. Pp. xi + 288. (London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1916.) Price 10s. 6d. net.
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HADDON, A. Memories . Nature 98, 267 (1916). https://doi.org/10.1038/098267a0
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