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between Cambridge and Grantchester, and speaks of a 

 certain beetle the remembrance of whose name is " Crux 

 major."* How enthusiastically must my father have ex- 

 ulted over this beetle to have impressed its name on a com- 

 panion so that he remembers it after half a century ! 



He became intimate with Henslow, the Professor of 

 Botany, and through him with some other older members 

 of the University. " But," Mr. Herbert writes, " he always 

 kept up the closest connection with the friends _ of his 

 own standing; and at our frequent social gatherings at 

 breakfast, wine or supper parties he was ever one of the 

 most cheerful, the most popular, and the most welcome." 



My father formed one of a club for dining once a 

 week, called the Glutton Club, the members, besides him- 

 self and Mr. Herbert (from whom I quote), being Whitley 

 of St. John's, now Honorary Canon of Durham ;f Heavi- 

 side of Sydney, now Canon of Norwich ; Lovett Cameron 

 of Trinity, sometime vicar of Shoreham ; R. Blane of Trin- 

 ity,! wno " held a high P os t during the Crimean war ; H. 

 Lowe"* (afterwards Sherbrooke) of Trinity Hall; and F. 

 Watkins of Emmanuel, afterwards Archdeacon of York. 

 The origin of the club's name seems already to have become 

 involved in obscurity ; it certainly implied no unusual lux- 

 ury in the weekly gatherings. 



At any rate, the meetings seemed to have been suc- 

 cessful, and to have ended with " a game of mild vingt- 

 et-un." 



Mr. Herbert speaks strongly of my father's love of 

 music, and adds, " What gave him the greatest delight was 

 some grand symphony or overture of Mozart's or Beet- 

 hoven's, with their full harmonies." On one occasion Her- 

 bert remembers " accompanying him to the afternoon serv- 

 ice at King's, when w r e heard a very beautiful anthem. 

 At the end of one of the parts, which was exceedingly 

 impressive, he turned round to me and said, with a deep 

 sigh, ' How's your backbone ? ' " He often spoke in later 

 years of a feeling of coldness or shivering in his back on 

 hearing beautiful music. 



* Panagaius crux-major. 



t Formerly Reader in Natural Philosophy at Durham University. 



X Blane was afterwards, I believe, in the Life Guards ; he was in the Cri- 

 mean War, and afterwards Military Attache at St. Petersburg. I am in- 

 debted to Mr. Hamilton for information about some of my father's contempo- 

 raries. 



# Brother of Lord Sherbrooke. 



