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Whewell should happen to be in the chair this 

 year ? He presented it to me in full conclave 

 with a very handsome speech, to which I made 

 the best acknowledgments I could. At the 

 anniversary dinner, which I attended the same 

 day, Whewell, when he proposed my health, 

 alluded to me very feelingly as a fellow-townsman 

 and old schoolfellow. After the dinner I adjourned 

 to Lord Cole's and finished in the usual manner a 

 happy day, but poor Mr. Stokes was sadly missed. 

 He was too ill to come.' The diary then relates 

 that ' the next day Lord Cole and Sir Philip de 

 Grey Egerton dropped in and were much amused 

 to find Richard with the baby on his knees, trying 

 to feed him surreptitiously out of a bottle.' 



'March u. — To-day the Duchess of Cam- 

 bridge, with her son and daughter, came into the 

 giraffe house while we were there. The ourang- 

 outang was brought to the Duchess, as there was 

 such a crowd round his cage. He is by no means 

 so interesting as poor Tommy, the chimpanzee. 

 The great disproportion between his hind legs 

 and fore, the heaviness of his movements, and his 

 small eyes take much from the painfully humanlike 

 expression which poor Tommy had. When we got 

 home R. insisted upon having the legs of a fowl 

 which we had for dinner, to examine the muscles.' 



'March 23. — To-day sections of teeth exa- 

 mined under the microscope. Mr. White Cooper 

 here. He is making full notes of R.'s lectures.' 



