Ch. V.] 1828—1831. 107 



How enthusiastically must my father have exulted over this 

 beetlo to have impressed its name on a companion so that he 

 remembers it after half a century ! 



He became intimate with Henslow, tho Professor of Botany, 

 and through him with some other older mombers of the 

 University. " But," Mr. Herbert writes, " he always kept up 

 the closest connection with the friends of his own standing ; 

 and at our frequent social gatherings — at breakfast, wine or 

 supper parties — he was ever one of the most cheerful, the most 

 popular, and tho most welcome." 



My father formed ono of a club for dining once a week, 

 called tho Glutton Club, tho members, besides himself and Mr. 

 Herbort (from whom I quote), being Whitley of St. John's, 

 now Honorary Canon of Durham ; * Heaviside of Sydney, now 

 Canon of Norwich ; Lovett Cameron of Trinity, sometime vicar 

 of Shoreham; R. Blane of Trinity,f who held a high post 

 during the Crimean war , H. Lowo j (afterwards Sherbrooke) 

 of Trinity Hall ; and F. Watkins 01 Emmanuel, afterwards 

 Archdeacon of York. The origin of the club's name seems 

 already to have become involved in obscurity; it certainly 

 implied no unusual luxury in the weekly gatherings. 



At any rate, the meetings seemed to have been successful, 

 and to have ended with " a game of mild vingt-et-un." 



Mr. Herbert speaks strongly of my father's love of music, 

 and adds, "What gave him the greatost delight was some 

 grand symphony or overture of Mozart's or Beethoven's, with 

 their full harmonies." On ono occasion Herbert remembers 

 " accompanying him to tho afternoon service at King's, when 

 we heard a very beautiful anthem. At tho end of ono of the 

 parts, which was exceedingly impressive,!he turned round to me 

 and said, with a deep sigh, ' How's your backbone ? ' " He often 

 spoke in later years of a feeling of coldness or shivering in his 

 back on hearing beautiful music. 



Besides a love of music, he had certainly at this time a 

 love of fine literature ; and Mr. Cameron tells me that my 

 father took much pleasure in Shakespeare readings carried 

 on in his rooms at Christ's. He also speaks of Darwin's 

 " great liking for first-class line engravings, especially those 

 of Raphael Morghen and Miiller; and he spent hours in 



* Formerly Reader in Natural Philosophy at Durham University. 



t Blane was afterwards, I believe, in the Life Guards; he was in 

 the Crimean War, and afterwards Military Attache at St. Petersburg. 

 I am indebted to Mr. Hamilton for information about some of my father'i 

 contemporaries. 



X Brother of Lord Sherbrooke. 



