SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



SCIENCE AT THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY. 



By John T. Carrington. 



"\ T OW that the collection of pictures of nota- 

 bilities deemed worthy to represent the 

 foremost people who have made the name of 

 Britain respected throughout the world are 

 gathered to- 



must be many such which may be, from time to 

 time, available for acquisition, but, of course, these 

 should only be of the very first rank of such men, 

 or at least those whose names have become house- 

 hold words 



gether in their 

 new building, 

 we see how 

 small is the 

 representa- 

 tion of Sci- 

 ence in the 

 National Por- 

 trait Gallery. 

 In all there 

 appear to be 

 no more than 

 thirty repre- 

 sentatives out 

 of 1,036 por- 

 traits. This 

 may to some 

 extent be ac- 

 counted for 

 by the fact 

 that until re- 

 cently these 

 pictures have 

 had no settled 

 home, conse- 

 quently few 

 people knew 

 whose por- 

 traits were 

 t h e re and 

 whose were 

 absent among 

 scientific wor- 

 thies. It is to 

 be hoped that 

 before the al- 

 ready well- 

 filled walls become more crowded, other and eminent ture, Art, Jurisprudence, Politics, or \\ ar. 

 investigators may have their portraits placed where We propose to place in review before our readers 



they may be readily seen and venerated. There those portraits which are of especial interest to 



June, 1896.— No. 25, Vol. III. B 



/. H. 



Charles Darwin. 



among stu- 

 dents of na- 

 ture in its 

 widest sense. 

 One would 

 think that the 

 Council of the 

 Royal Society 

 would take 

 upon itself 

 the duty of 

 furthering the 

 desirable ob- 

 ject, by re- 

 commending, 

 when oppor- 

 tunity occurs, 

 any portraits 

 which can be 

 obtained. At 

 present, that 

 which is 

 e V e r y o n e's 

 business ap- 

 pears to be 

 the especial 

 duty of no 

 o n e — h e n c e 

 the paucity in 

 the represen- 

 tation of men 

 who have 

 attained to 

 eminence in 

 Science, as 

 compared 

 with Litera- 



