96 DR. SHIPLEY'S REMINISCENCES 



Comparative Anatomy for eleven years, that he became 

 a Foundation Fellow. 



The town to which Newton came up in his nineteenth 

 year was much smaller than to-day. The population in 

 1851 was 27,815 ; to-day, with the extensions of the 

 town boundaries which have taken place since the be- 

 ginning of this century, it reaches the figm-e of 55,812 

 The University also has more than doubled its size. In 

 1849 there were 1775 undergraduates, 3786 members of 

 the Senate, and 6906 members of the University " on the 

 Boards " ; to-day the numbers are 3623, 7293, and 

 15,094 respectively.* The distribution of the students, 

 too, has altered ; in those days Pembroke had but 23 

 undergraduates all told, Magdalene just over 50. 



The appearance of the tow^n was almost mediaeval. 

 There were but few houses — ^barely a dozen — south of 

 Parker's Piece ; Romsey Town, New Chesterton, and 

 Newnham hardly existed ; and to the north the " hand- 

 some and commodious shirehouse " opened in 1842 

 almost coincided with the limits of the borough along 

 the Huntingdon Road. To make way for this Court of 

 Justice the last relic of the Castle, a massive and spacious 

 gate-house, was removed. The older buildings of the 

 Observatory looked then much as they look now, but 

 the married Don was then unthought-of, and the in- 

 numerable red-brick villas which stretch yearly further 

 towards the setting sun, between the Madingley and the 

 Barton Roads were undreamt of. There was no Selwyn, 

 no Ridley Hall, no Girton, no Newnham, no Westminster 

 or Cheshunt Colleges, and no Clergy-Training School, 

 also there was no Theatre. 



The FitzwiUiam Museum stood unfinished with the 



* This was written in June, 1914. The numbers at present (November, 

 1920) are 4776, 7780, and 15,862 respectively. 



