1876-82.] 



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in August, 1 88 1, to Mr. John Collier, for the portrait now in 

 the possession of the Society. Of the artist, he wrote, 

 ' Collier was the most considerate, kind and pleasant painter a 

 sitter could desire." The portrait represents him standing 

 facing the observer in the loose cloak so familiar to those who 

 knew him, and 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. There is a certain expres- 

 sion in Mr. Collier's portrait which I am inclined to consider 

 an exaggeration of the almost painful expression which 

 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 Breslauer Zeitung, April 23, 1882. 



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,]: 

 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 distinguished German, 

 Hans Richter. The occurrence is 

 otherwise worthy of mention, inas- 

 much as it led to the publication, 

 after my father's death, of Herr 

 Richter's recollections of the visit. 

 The sketch is simply and sympa- 

 thetically written, and the author 

 has succeeded in giving a true 

 picture of my father as he lived at 

 Down. It appeared in the Nene 

 Tagblatt of Vienna, and was repub- 

 lished by Dr. O. Zacharias in his 



' Charles R. Darwin/ Berlin, 1882. 



t " Lyell always spoke of it as a 

 great scandal that Danvin was so 

 long kept out of the French Insti- 

 tute. As he said, even if the de- 

 velopment hypothesis were objected 

 to, Darwin's original works on 

 Coral Reefs, the Cirripedia, and 

 other subjects, constituted a more 

 than sufficient claim." — From Pro- 

 fessor Judd's notes. 



% The statement has been more 

 than once published that he was 

 elected to the Zoological Section, 

 but this was not the case. 



