102 DR. SHIPLEY'S KEMINISCENCES 



slavery. His father was the owner of the Elvedcn 

 estate near Thetford, whch was later sold to Prince 

 Dhuleep Singh and afterwards passed into the possession 

 of Lord Iveagh. His brothers, as brothers in county 

 families in those days did, went their several ways into 

 the various professions. Alfred Newton himself was 

 destined for the Church ; there was, I beheve, a family 

 living, and I w^ell remember on one sunny August after- 

 noon in his later years as he and I went together on a 

 drive over the chalk hills between Cherry Hinton and 

 the Hills Road, his telling me this, and adding that " the 

 nearer he got to orders the less he liked the look of 

 them." Not that he was not always a Christian and a 

 genuinely rehgious man, but he had his views, and Newton 

 when he had his views never varied them or abated one 

 iota of them. On the whole, I am inclined to think that 

 it made for peace in the EstabHshed Church when Newton 

 decided not to take holy orders. 



When I came up to Cambridge in 1880, a shy under- 

 graduate, who had spent one year at St. Bartholomew's 

 Hospital, where with the help of Stephen Paget I had 

 dissected the leg of the wife of the butler * of the First 

 Napoleon, I and my contemporaries fell under the 

 glamour of Morpholog}^ We were not so very far ofE 

 from the " Origin of Species," and we were even con- 

 temporaneous with Darwin's later works, all of which 

 dealt with living creatures, living organisms, and yet 

 our obsession was w^th the dead, with bodies beautifully 

 preserved and cut into the most refined slices, stained 

 in various pigments so that like the king's daughter of 

 the psalmist they were " all glorious within." Professor 

 Adami, the distinguished pathologist, and I spent our 



* He was an old soldier who had served in this capaeity to Napoleon I. 

 at Longwood and in his old age had married a young wife, who through 

 misfortune died in the Hospital, and, no one claiming the body, it was 

 dissected. 



