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and I do not think any one else has ever noticed the point. 

 I have always said you were the man to hit the nail on the 

 head." 



In 1877 he received the honorary degree of LL.D. from 

 the University of Cambridge. The degree was conferred on 

 November 17, and with the customary Latin speech from the 

 Public Orator, concluding with the words : " Tn vero, qui 

 leges naturae tarn docte illustraveris, legam doctor nobis esto." 



The honorary degree led to a movement being set on foot in 

 the University to obtain some permanent memorial of my 

 father. In June 1879 he sat to Mr. W. Kichmond for the 

 portrait in the possession of the University, now placed in the 

 Library of the Philosophical Society at Cambridge. 



A similar wish on the part of the Linnean Society — with 

 which my father was so closely associated — led to his sitting 

 in August, 1881, to Mr. John Collier, for the portrait now in 

 the possession of the Society. The portrait represents him 

 standing facing the observer in the loose cloak so familiar 

 to those who knew him, 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. The last-named portrait 

 was painted at Down in 1875 ; it is in the possession of the 

 family,* and is known to many through Bajon's fine etching. 

 Of Mr. Ouless's picture my father wrote to Sir J. D. Hooker : 



" I look a very venerable, acute, melancholy old dog ; 

 whether I really look so I do not know." 



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, j and wrote 

 to Dr. Asa Gray : — 



"I see that we are both elected Corresponding Members 

 of the Institute. It is rather a good joke that I should be 

 elected in the Botanical Section, as the extent of my know- 

 remarks had been previously made by Mr. Huxley. See Critiques and 

 Addresses, p. 305. 



* A replica by the artist hangs alongside of the portraits of Milton 

 and Paley in the hall of Christ's College, Cambridge. 



t He received twenty-six votes out of a possible thirty-nine, five blank 

 papers were sent in, and eight votes were recorded for the other 

 candidates. In 1872 an attempt had been made to elect him in the 

 Section of Zoology, when, however, he only received fifteen out of 

 forty-eight votes, and Love'n was chosen for the vacant place. It appears 



