800 FINAL JOURNEYS AND WORK. [1887, 
quarters in Rue St. Roche before dark. That need 
not mean very early, for the days here are wonderfully 
protracted. 
He crossed to England June 14, passed a day or 
two in London, and then went to the Camp, quite glo- 
rious with the rhododendrons in blossom; and with 
Sir Joseph and Lady Hooker, on the 18th, went to 
Cambridge, where they were the guests of Mrs. Dar- 
win. A delightful Sunday was spent in meeting old 
friends, and on Monday were all the ceremonies, new 
and strange, of conferring of degrees. The great 
sensation of the day was the presence of the Lord 
Mayor with all his train; he also was to have a de- 
gree, . No one can surpass Dr. Sandys in the 
felinity vetits which he presents the distinguished men 
whom Cambridge University honors with its highest 
degrees. In his presentation of Dr. Gray, he said 
(we translate from the exquisite Latin) : 
“ And now we are glad to come to the Harvard 
professor of Natural History, facile princeps of trans- 
atlantic botanists. Within the period of fifty years, 
how many books has he written about his fairest sci- 
ence; how rich in learning, how admirable in style! 
How many times has he crossed the ocean that he 
might more carefully study European herbaria, and 
better know the leading men in his own department ! 
In examining, reviewing and sometimes gracefully 
correcting the labors of others, what a shrewd, honest 
and urbane critic has he proved himself to be! How 
cheerfully, many years ago, among his own western 
countrymen was he the first of all to greet the rising 
sun of our own Darwin, believing his theory of the 
origin of various forms of life demanded some First 
