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MISCELLANEA. [1880, 



Professor Cohn has described in my father's face, and which 

 he had previously noticed in Humboldt. Professor Cohn's 

 remarks occur in a pleasantly written account of a visit to 

 Down* in 1876, published in the Breslaiier Zeitiing^ April 23, 

 1882. 



Besides the Cambridge degree, he received about the same 

 time honours of an academic kind from some foreign socie- 

 ties. 



On August 5, 1878, he was elected a Corresponding Mem- 

 ber of the French Institute \ in the Botanical Section, % and 

 wrote to Dr. Asa Gray : — 



" I see that we are both elected Corresponding Members 



* In this connection may be mentioned a visit (1881) from another dis- 

 tinguished German, Hans Richter. The occurrence is otherwise worthy 

 of mention, inasmuch as it led to the publication, after my father's death, 

 of Herr Richter's recollections of the visit. The sketch is simply and sym- 

 pathetically written, and the author has succeeded in giving a true picture 

 of my father as he lived at Down. It appeared in the A^etie Tagblatt of 

 Vienna, and was republished by Dr. O. Zacharias in his ' Charles R. Dar- 

 win,' Berlin, 1882. 



\ " Lyell always spoke of it as a great scandal that Darwin was so long 

 kept out of the French Institute. As he said, even if the development 

 hypothesis were objected to, Darwin's original works on Coral Reefs, the 

 Cirripedia, and other subjects, constituted a more than sufficient claim." — 

 From Professor Judd's notes. 



X The statement has been more than once published that he was 

 elected to the Zoological Section, but this was not the case. 



He received twenty-six votes out of a possible 39, five blank papers 

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



In 1872 an attempt had been made to elect him to the Section of Zo- 

 ology, when, however, he only received 15 out of 48 votes, and Loven was 

 chosen for the vacant place. It appears (' Nature,' August i, 1872) that 

 an eminent member of the Academy wrote to Les Mondes to the follow- 

 ing effect : — 



" What has closed the doors of the Academy to Mr. Darwin is that the 

 science of those of his books which have made his chief title to fame — the 

 'Origin of Species,' and still more the * Descent of Man,' is not science, 

 but a mass of assertions and absolutely gratuitous hypotheses, often evi- 

 dently fallacious. This kind of publication and these theories are a bad 

 example, which a body that respects itself cannot encourage." 



