800 FINAL JOURNEYS AND WORK. [1887, 



quarters in Rue St. Roche before dark. That need 

 not mean very early, for the days here are wonderfully 

 protracted. 



He crossed to England June 14, passed a day or 

 two in London, and then went to the Camp, quite glo- 

 rious with the rhododendrons in blossom ; and with 

 Sir Joseph and Lady Hooker, on the 18th, went to 

 Cambridge, where they were the guests of Mrs. Dar- 

 win. A delightful Sunday was spent in meeting old 

 friends, and on Monday were all the ceremonies, new 

 and strange, of conferring of degrees. The great 

 sensation of the day was the presence of the Lord 

 Mayor with all his train ; he also was to have a de- 

 gree. . . . No one can surpass Dr. Sandys in the 

 felicity with which he presents the distinguished men 

 whom Cambridge University honors with its highest 

 degrees. In his presentation of Dr. Gray, he said 

 (we translate from the exquisite Latin) : 



" And now we are glad to come to the Harvard 

 professor of Natural History, facile princeps of trans- 

 atlantic botanists. Within the period of fifty years, 

 how many books has he written about his fairest sci- 

 ence ; how rich in learning, how admirable in style ! 

 How many times has he crossed the ocean that he 

 might more carefully study European herbaria, and 

 better know the leading men in his own department ! 

 In examining, reviewing and sometimes gracefully 

 correcting the labors of others, what a shrewd, honest 

 and urbane critic has he proved himself to be ! How 

 cheerfully, many years ago, among his own western 

 countrymen was he the first of all to greet the rising 

 sun of our own Darwin, believing his theory of the 

 origin of various forms of life demanded some First 



