1 Nature, 30 October 1884; collected in Ball, The Science of Aspects: The Changing: Role of Fact in the Work of Coleridge, Ruskin, and Hopkins. London, 1971. Appendix (148- 150).

2 ibid. l 48-149.

3 ibid, 150.

4 Gerard Manley Hopkins: Wreck of the Deutschland, 1.37; "Hurrahing in Harvest," 2-4.

5 Ball, 150.

6 ibid.

7 ibid, 140-150.

8 Altick, "Four Victorian Poets and an Exploding Island" in Victorian Studies (vol.3, March 1960). pp 249-260.

9 ibid, 251

10 Zaniello, "The Spectacular English Sunsets of the 1880s," in Victorian Science and Victorian Values. Paradis and Postlewait, eds. Rutgers U: 1985. (247ff).

11 Roos, "The 'Aims and Intentions' of Nature," ibid, p. 161.

12 Zaniello, Hopkins in the Age of Darwin. Iowa U Press: 1988. (119)

13 Roos, 173.

14 Zaniello (1988), 83

15 Ball 115-116.

16 See particularly journal entries for 24 May and 16-17 September 1871, and 14 August 1874 in The Journals and Papers of Gerard Manley Hopkins, H. House (ed.). London, 1959.

17 Nature, 1 6 November 1 882. Collected in The Correspondence of Gerard Manley Hopkins and Richard Watson Dixon. C. Abbott (ed.). London, 1935. Appendix II, 161.

18 Cronin, R. Colour and Experience in Nineteenth-Centurv Poetry. London, 1988. (174)

19 undated note in journal of 1864, (H. House, ea., p.20).

20 journal, 9 April 1874. The list constitutes an extensive catalogue of color and approaches verse-form in its structure. (ibid, 242).

21 ihid 246. (24 May 1874.)

22 The Complete Works of John Ruskin, Wedderburn and Cook eds. London, 1903-12 (vol.15, p.27).

23 ibid.

24 It is interesting to note that the Krakatoa Committee of the Royal Society commissioned visual artists to record as precisely as possible the colors present in affected sunsets. Several of the resulting paintings were published in the Committee's official report, The Fruption of Krakatoa and Subsequent Phenomena (1888). See Paradis and Postlewait, p.248.

25 letter IV, 10 March 1879. (Abbott, 20).

26 ibid. Ietter XiV, 7 August 1886. (p. l 39). 27 ibid.

28 ibid, p. 140.

29 Lockyer and Lockyer, Life and Work of Sir Norman Lockyer, p.99. See also Nature vols. l 8, 28, and 36 for Lockyer's reviews of the Royal Academy exhibitions.

30 Nature, vol.2 ( l 870), p.158 and Roos, pp. 171-2. For evidence that Hopkins was familiar with Nature from the early 1870s, see Nixon, J. "From Pap to Poison: Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Poetics of Darwinism" in Gerard Manley Hopkins and Critical Discourse. Hollahan E. ea.. New York: l 993

31 Nature, l 5 November 1883. Collected in Abbot, Appendix II, pp.161 -2.

32 See particularly Plotkin, C. The Tenth Muse: Victorian Philology and the Genesis of the Poetic Language of Gerard Manlev Hopkins. Illinois: 1989. and Milroy, J. The Language of Gerard Manley Hopkins. Deutsch Ltd: 1977

33 Wreck of the l
eutschland, 11.225-230.

34 ibid, 217-220.

35 ibid, 238-240.

36 House, p.421 (note 229.4, his emphasis). Marchant also comments on Hopkins as a metaphor-maker: "He was not always judicious in his sermons; he once compared the Church to a milk cow and the tits to the seven sacraments. But great genius must be excused eccentricities."

37 quoted in Zaniello (1988), p.7.

38 Abbot, pp.162-166 and Ball, pp. 148-150.

39 Abbot, pp. 163-4.

40 ibid, 164.

41 Ball, 149.

42 Abbott, 164.

43 Ball, 149 and Abbott. 161