THE DARWIN CELEBRATION AT CAMBRIDGE 27 



been deeply interested in Mendel's results, but these, although throwing 

 light on the mechanisms concerned in hereditary transmission, were 

 not in any way opposed to Darwin's great theoretical structure. 



In the evening of the same day there was a great banquet in the 

 new examination hall, 538 men sitting down. A few wives and daugh- 

 ters, as the custom is, were permitted to observe the feast from a gallery. 

 We were furnished with printed lists, showing where everybody sat; so 

 it was equally easy to find one's own place, and. to learn the names of 

 all one's neighbors. The menu was printed in a little booklet, on the 

 outside of which were portraits of Darwin at the ages of seven and 

 fifty-nine. There were blank pages, and so the books circulated round 

 the tables, and came back full of pencilled signatures. The tables were 





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Signatures of members of the Darwin family present at the garden party given by 



them to those in attendance at the meeting. The first four are sons of 



Charles Darwin. The others are grandchildren. (The other 



writing on the card is that of Francis Darwin.) 



