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CH. IV. 
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 II. — 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.’ 
