MEMOIR 
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science who have been its alumni , and proposed to place 
Spencer’s name among them. 
‘Needless to say, I very much appreciate the honour that you propose 
to do me; the only thing is that I do not think it quite right or justifiable 
that I should appear side by side with men like Lankester and Lyell. 
I know of course that, thanks to opportunities that come to few 
workers, I have been able to do some good anthropological work; and 
the capacity to do this I owe to Moseley and Tylor. It was just the 
merest chance that, when I was demonstrating for Moseley, the Pitt- 
Rivers Collection was left to the University, and Moseley asked me 
if I would help him pack it up. Of course I went, and for about a 
month I was daily with him and Tylor; and from both of them, but 
especially the latter, I learnt much—little dreaming that I should ever 
come to Australia. Any work that I have done has been due to this 
initial stimulus of Moseley and Tylor; and later, and still more, to 
that of Frazer.’ 
In the window in question Spencer’s name appears in associa¬ 
tion with the arms of the University of Melbourne. Nearby 
in the same Hall hangs a striking portrait of Spencer in his 
academic robes painted by the Australian artist W. B. 
Mclnnes, and presented to Exeter College by Spencer’s 
daughter, Mrs. Young. Another fine picture of him on a 
somewhat ampler scale by the same hand was presented by 
some of his old students to the University of Melbourne. 
Spencer was made a C.M.G. in 1904, and a K.C.M.G. in 
1916. He was doctor alike of Science and of Letters; he 
became Honorary Fellow, Medallist, Corresponding Mem¬ 
ber, and so on, of many learned societies, both British and 
foreign; he acted as President of various important organi¬ 
zations in Australia, including more than one athletic club; 
and, finally, for his services to Art, he received in 1926 
a distinction which probably gave him as much pleasure as 
any, in the shape of the medal of the Australian Society 
of Arts. 
We come now to the last act of the drama of Spencer’s 
