All the civil servants in Britain know that the longer a person works in a specific department, the greater his power and influence.
Even if he is just the most ordinary clerk, serving in the department for 58 years is enough to make his position in that department extremely special.
Even small clerks can rely on their seniority to make a name for themselves, let alone Blumenbach, who was once a 'prodigy of youth, and now a prodigy of old age'.
Furthermore, due to the special nature of the teaching profession, having taught at the University of Gottingen for so many years, Blumenbach naturally brought up many influential students.
Among them, his most famous student recently came to Gottingen to attend the All-Europe Electromagnetic Conference.
That is none other than the President of the Berlin Academy of Sciences—Mr. Alexander von Humboldt.
