DAVIS: HUGH EDWIN STRICKLAND, F.E.S., ETC. 143 
twice a day according to the above-mentioned precedence, so that 
wlien the last has been in the first time, it is time for the first to go 
in the second time. The first lecture, as it is called, consists on 
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday of Herodotus, and the 
second on Livy. On Friday and Saturday there is only one lecture. 
On the former of those days I do Sophocles, and on the latter am 
examined in Hallam's ' Middle Ages.' We go up about seven a.m., 
dine at 5-30 p.m., tea at eight, go to bed (or supposed to do) at ten 
p.m. We have, moreover, three themes a week, which are shown up 
on Saturday, and twice a week go in with Greek Testament between 
dinner and tea." 
This year his father removed from Henley to Cracombe. The 
house was large, and as Strickland observes there was plenty of room 
for all their devices; During the boyhood of Strickland his secluded 
living and the character of his pursuits and tastes rendered him of a 
more or less retiring disposition, and he had an inclination to avoid 
the company of boys of similar age to himself and to feel more at 
home with people of more advanced )^ears. 
In February, 1829, he became a student at Oriel College, Oxford. 
The usual college amusements did not take niucli of his time, but he 
took gi'eat interest in the Museum then newly arranged by Mr. Dun- 
can, and attended the geological lectures of Dr. Buckland, which he 
considered were so rational and interesting and agreed so well with 
all the notions he had before formed on the subject that he was quite 
delighted with them, while he considered it worth one's while if it 
were merely for the sake of examining his immense collection of 
organic remains. As usual, he kept a notebook on the Professor's 
lectures. In November Strickland passed his first examination, and 
thus reports his opinion of the proceedings: — ''About half-past 
twelve yesterday I went into the schools. I was the first called up 
and was examined about twenty minutes. I was not nearly so 
frightened as I expected to be, and was quite surprised at myself, as 
I expected I should not be able to answer a word, instead of which 
I found myself very much at my ease. I was then set to do various 
translations, which occupied about two hours and-a-half, when the 
examiner said that all I had done was very satisfactory, and I was 
