CHAPTER X. 



IN his later years honours poured thick upon Darwin. 

 In 1871 he received the Prussian order of knighthood 

 " For Merit " ; and was elected a corresponding member 

 of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. In 1877 Cam- 

 bridge University, making an exception to its custom of 

 not conferring honorary degrees on its members, gave him 

 the LL.D. and an ovation, when the kindly eyes of the 

 venerable naturalist beamed upon the monkey-figure 

 dangled by undergraduates before him from the galleries, 

 in addition to a solitary link of a huge chain, no doubt 

 representing " the missing link." In 1878 the honour, 

 long withheld, and certainly unsought, of being elected a 

 corresponding member of the Paris Academy of Sciences 

 in the section of Zoology, was his ; and that tardy body 

 recognised late the man whose supremacy in science it 

 had done nothing either to foster or to approve. In 1879 

 the Baly Medal of the London College of Physicians 

 was awarded to him. 



After the Cambridge celebration a subscription was 

 raised to obtain a portrait of the veteran evolutionist, 

 which was executed by Mr. W. B. Richmond, and now 

 adorns the Philosophical Library of the New Museums 

 at Cambridge. Later, yet another portrait the finest 



