1843-44 THE PICKERSGILL PORTRAIT 233 



got back by reading Chad wick's " Report on 

 Burials." ' 



1 19M. — R.'s introductory lecture. Many fa- 

 miliar faces in the audience. The usual dose 

 before lecture, which was given without notes.' 



' April 4. — Miss Edge worth came to take 

 leave before going back to Ireland. R. was 

 making ready to go in to lecture when she came 

 in, but he had time to stop and have a talk with 

 her. She admired greatly the professorial gown 

 with its red silk.' 



' \oth. — R. drew the outline of diagram which 

 I am to colour for to-morrow's lecture. After- 

 wards he dissected a chimpanzee. Willy watched 

 his father dissecting till he himself smelt like a 

 specimen preserved in rum.' 



1 \6tk. — Mr. Broderip, Dr. Arthur Farre, &c, 

 to dinner. Microscope and music followed, and 

 we finished up by singing glees till nearly one 

 o'clock.' 



' 26th. — R. went this morning at 7 30 to sit the 

 second time to Mr. Pickersgill. Mr. P. came to 

 lecture last week, to get an idea of R.'s attitude, 

 &c, as he spoke. He is to be in the act of 

 lecturing, holding the dinornis bone.' 



'27M. — To the Royal Institute to hear 

 Faraday lecture on " Expansion by Heat," illus- 

 trated by most interesting experiments.' 



' May 3. — After a hard day's work, R. deep in 

 " Martin Chuzzlewit." My father came in before 



