Charles Darwin. 



or degrees, so that at the end of his ripe and well- 

 rounded life he had received seven or eight degrees, 

 three from Cambridge, and one each from Breslau, 

 Bonn, and Leyden. He was a member of nine 

 London scientific societies, nine in the Provinces, 

 thirteen in America, four in Austria-Hungary, three 

 in Belgium, four in France, ten in Germany, three in 

 Holland, six in Italy, and eight in Portugal, Spain, 

 Sweden, and Switzerland. While he cared little for 

 honours of this kind, they must have impressed him 

 with the fact that his great work was appreciated by 

 the world at large. In 1877 he received the much- 

 treasured LL.D. of Cambridge. This called to mind 

 the fact that the university had no memorial of 

 Darwin, and forthwith 400 were subscribed and 

 Darwin asked to sit for his portrait, which he did 

 in 1879, Mr. W. Richmond making an excellent 

 likeness, which now hangs in the library of the 

 Philosophical Society at Cambridge. The picture 

 represents him in his doctor's gown, with head facing 

 the observer. 



This was followed by a request from the Linnaean 

 Society for a sitting, which was given in 1881, Mr. 

 John Collier being the artist. This shows him stand- 

 ing, in the clothes he habitually wore. Neither of 

 these pictures is perfectly satisfactory to his son 

 Francis Darwin. 



In 1878 Darwin was elected corresponding member 

 of the French Institute. A previous attempt had 

 been made to elect him, in 1872, to the Zoological 

 Section, but he received but fifteen votes out of 

 forty-eight, a fact that Sir Charles Lyell refers to 



