Part 16

{157} Afterwards Savilian Professor of Astronomy at Oxford. Born 1808, died 1893.

{158a} The late Mr. Routh was the most celebrated mathematical "Coach" of his day.

{158b} Compare Charles Darwin's words: "George has not slaved himself, which makes his success the more satisfactory" (_More Letters of C. Darwin_, Vol. II., p. 287).

{159} Emma Darwin, _A Century of Family Letters_, 1915, Vol. II., p. 187.

{161} He was called in 1874 but did not practise.

{162} As a boy he had energetically collected Lepidoptera during the years 1858-61; the first vague indications of a leaning towards physical science may perhaps be found in his joining the Sicilian eclipse expedition, December, 1870--January, 1871. It appears from _Nature_, December 1, 1870, that George was told off to make sketches of the Corona.

{163a} _Macmillan's Magazine_, 1872, Vol. XXVI., pp. 410-416.

{163b} _Contemporary Review_, 1873, Vol. XXII., pp. 412-426.

{163c} Not published.

{163d} _Contemporary Review_, 1874, Vol. XXIV., pp. 894-904.

{164a} _Journal of the Statistical Society_, 1875, Vol. XXXVIII., pt. 2, pp. 153-182, also pp. 183-184, and pp. 344-348.

{164b} Probably he heard informally at the end of October what was not formally determined till November.

{165a} Emma Darwin, _A Century of Family Letters_, 1915, Vol. II., p. 233.

{165b} _Nature_, December 12, 1912.

{165c} It was in 1907 that the Syndics of the Cambridge University Press asked George to prepare a reprint of his scientific papers, which were published in five volumes. George was deeply gratified at an honour that placed him in the same class as Lord Kelvin, Stokes, Cayley, Adams, Clerk Maxwell, Lord Rayleigh, and other men of distinction.

{166} Thus in 1872 he was in Homburg, 1873 in Cannes, 1874 in Holland, Belgium, Switzerland and Malta, 1876 in Italy and Sicily.

{167} The voting at University elections is in theory strictly confidential, but in practice this is unfortunately not always the case. George records in his diary the names of the five who voted for him and of the four who supported another candidate. None of the electors are now living. The election occurred in January, and in June he had the great pleasure and honour of being re-elected to a Trinity Fellowship. His daughter, Madame Raverat, writes: "Once, when I was walking with my father on the road to Madingley village, he told me how he had walked there on the first Sunday he ever was at Cambridge with two or three other freshmen; and how, when they were about opposite the old chalk pit, one of them betted him 20 pounds that he (my father) would never be a professor of Cambridge University: 'and' said my father, with great indignation, 'he never paid me.'"

{168} In the second part of the Preface to the fifth volume of _Sir G. H. Darwin's Scientific Papers_, 1916.

{171} _Emma Darwin_, _A Century of Family Letters_. Privately printed, 1904. Vol. II., p. 350.

{172a} _Emma Darwin_, _A Century of Family Letters_, 1915, Vol. II., p. 266.

{172b} At that time it was known simply as Newnham, but as this is the name of the College, and was also in use for a growing region of houses, the Darwins christened it Newnham Grange. The name Newnham is now officially applied to the region extending from Silver Street Bridge to the Barton Road.

{173a} The following account of Newnham Grange is taken from C. H. Cooper's _Memorials of Cambridge_, 1866, Vol. III., p. 262 (note): "The site of the hermitage was leased by the Corporation to Oliver Grene, 20 September, 31 Eliz. [1589]. It was in 1790 leased for a long term to Patrick Beales, from whom it came to his brother, S. P. Beales, Esq., who erected thereon a substantial mansion and mercantile premises now occupied by his son, Patrick Beales, Esq., alderman, who purchased the reversion from the Corporation in 1839." Silver Street was formerly known as Little Bridges Street, and the bridges which gave it this name were in charge of a hermit, hence the above reference to the hermitage.

{173b} This was to distinguish it from the "Big Island," both being leased from the town. Later George acquired in the same way the small oblong kitchen garden on the river bank, and bought the freehold of the Lammas land on the opposite bank of the river.

{177} _The Archer's Register_ for 1912-1913, by H. Walrond. London, _The Field Office_, 1913.

{178} As here given they are abbreviated.

{182a} See Prof Brown's Memoir, p. xlix.

{182b} _Nature_, 1912. See also Prof. Brown's Memoir, p. I.

{186} _Nature_, December 12, 1912.

{187} Compare Mr. Chesterton's _Twelve Types_, (1903), p. 190. He speaks of Scott's critic in the _Edinburgh Review_: "The only thing to be said about that critic is that he had never been a little boy. He foolishly imagined that Scott valued the plume and dagger of Marmion for Marmion's sake. Not being himself romantic, he could not understand that Scott valued the plume because it was a plume, and the dagger because it was a dagger."

{190} _Emma Darwin, A Century of Family Letters_, 1915, Vol., II., p. 146.

{192a} Sir George's medals are deposited in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge.

{192b} Given by the Sovereign on the nomination of the Royal Society.

{193} Re-elected in 1912.

{194} The above list is principally taken from that compiled by Sir George for the Year-Book of the Royal Society, 1912, and may not be quite complete. It should be added that he especially valued the honour conferred on him in the publication of his collected papers by the Syndics of the University Press.

{195} _Dictionary of Music_, ed. I., s.v., March.

{198a} _Dictionary of Music_, s.v., March.

{198b} _Dictionary of Music_, s.v. Sergeant Trumpeter. When the office was revived in 1858 it was given to a clarinet player and then to a bassoonist. Before this date it was not even necessary to be a musician to hold the office. The salary is 100 pounds per annum.

{199} _The British Campaign in France and Flanders_, 1914, pp. 117 and 118.

{201} An Address given at Birkbeck College, London, on September 29th, 1913.

{210} See p. 50.

{212} A new method of estimating the aperture of stomata. B., Vol. 84, 1911.

{215a} _Phil. Trans._, B. vol 190, 1898.

{215b} See above, p. 136.

{219} Quoted by Professor A. C. Bradley in his _Oxford Lectures on Poetry_, 1909, p. 341.

{220a} _Descent of Man_, 1871, Vol. 1., p. 75.

{220b} Charles Darwin's _Journal of Researches_, etc., ed. 1860, p. 214.

{223} _Memories and Portraits_.

{226} _Crainquebille, Riquet_, etc., (n.d.)

{227} _Oxford Lectures on Poetry_, 1909, pp. 340, 341.

{229a} _David Copperfield_, Chap. xix.

{229b} "Its board and lodging to me, is smoke." _Pickwick_, Chap. xx.

{229c} In _Hard Times_, Chap. viii. I have ventured to omit the elaborate lisp with which Mr. "Thleary" speaks in the original.

{230a} See for instance the _Life and Letters of Charles Darwin_, Vol 1, p. 113.

{230b} C. T. Forster's _Life and letters of Ogier de Busbecq_, 1881.