ch. xv.] HONOURS. 309 



of my father. In June 1879 he sat to Mr. W. Richmond for 

 the portrait in the possession of the University, now placed 

 in the Library of the Philosophical Society at Cambridge. 



A similar wish on the part of the Linnean Society with 

 which my father was so closely associated led to his sitting 

 in August, 1881, to Mr. John Collier, for the portrait now 

 in the possession of the Society. The portrait represents 

 him standing facing the observer in the loose cloak so fa- 

 miliar to those who knew him with his slouch hat in his 

 hand Many of those who knew his face most intimately, 

 think that Mr. Collier's picture is the best of the portraits, 

 and in this judgment the sitter himself was inclined to 

 agree. According to my feeling it is not so simple or strong 

 a representation of him as that given by Mr. Ouless. The 

 last-named portrait was painted at Down in 1875 ; it is in 

 the possession of the family,* and is known to many through 

 Bajon's fine etching. Of Mr. Ouless's picture my father 

 wrote to Sir J. D. Hooker : 



" I look a very venerable, acute, melancholy old dog ; 

 whether I really look so I do not know." 



Besides the Cambridge degree, he received about the 

 same time honours of an academic kind from some foreign 

 societies. 



On August 5, 1878, he was elected a Corresponding 

 Member of the French Institute in the Botanical Section,f 

 and wrote to Dr. Asa Gray : 



" I see that we are both elected Corresponding Members 



of the Institute. It is rather a good joke that I should be 



elected in the Botanical Section, as the extent of mv knowl- 



-edge is little more than that a daisy is a Compositous plant 



and a pea a Leguminous one." 



He valued very highly two photographic albums con- 



* A replica by the artist hangs alongside of the portraits of Milton and 

 Paley in the hall of Christ's College, Cambridge. 



+ He received twenty-six votes out of a possible thirty-nine, five blank pa- 

 pers were sent in, and eight votes were recorded for the other candidates. In 

 1872 an attempt had been made to elect him in the Section of Zoology, when, 

 however, he only received fifteen out of forty-eight votes, and Loven was 

 chosen for the vacant place. It appeai-s (Nature, August 1st, 1872) that an 

 eminent member of the Academy wrote to Les Hondes to the following 

 eflect : 



u What has closed the doors of the Academy to Mr. Darwin is that the sci- 

 ence of those of his books which have made his chief title to fame the Ori- 

 gin of Species, and still more the Descent of Man, is not science, but a mass of 

 assertions and absolutely gratuitous hypotheses, often evidently fallacious. 

 This kind of publication and these theories are a bad example, which a body 

 that respects itself cannot encourage." 



