FOOTNOTES:
[65] "On Tuesday last Charles Darwin, of Christ's College, was admitted B.A."—Cambridge Chronicle, Friday, April 29th, 1831.
[66] Readers of Calverley (another Christ's man) will remember his tobacco poem ending "Hero's to thee, Bacon."
[67] The rooms are on the first floor, on the west side of the middle staircase. A medallion (given by my brother) has recently been let into the wall of the sitting-room.
[68] For instance in a letter to Hooker (1817):—"Many thanks for your welcome note from Cambridge, and I am glad you like my Alma Mater, which I despise heartily as a place of education, but love from many most pleasant recollections."
[69] Autobiography p. 10.
[70] From a letter to W. D. Fox.
[71] No doubt in allusion to the title of Lord Herbert of Cherbury.
[72] Panagæus crux-major.
[73] Formerly Reader in Natural Philosophy at Durham University.
[74] Blane was afterwards, I believe, in the Life Guards; he was in the Crimean War, and afterwards Military Attaché at St. Petersburg. I am indebted to Mr. Hamilton for information about some of my father's contemporaries.
[75] Brother of Lord Sherbrooke.
[76] March 18, 1829.
[77] The postmark being Derby seems to show that the letter was written from his cousin, W. D. Fox's house, Osmaston, near Derby.
[78] The top of the hill immediately behind Barmouth was called Craig-Storm, a hybrid Cambro-English word.
[79] Rev. T. Butler, a son of the former head master of Shrewsbury School.
[80] No doubt a paid collector.
[81] The "Captain" is at the head of the "Poll": the "Apostles" are the last twelve in the Mathematical Tripos.
[82] For an explanation of the word "gulfed" or "gulphed," see Mr. W. W. Rouse Balls' interesting History of the Study of Mathematics at Cambridge (1889), p. 160.
[83] The Beagle should have started on Nov. 4, but was delayed until Dec. 27.
[84] See, too, a sketch by my father of his old master, in the Rev. L. Blomefield's Memoir of Professor Henslow.
[85] The copy of Humboldt given by Henslow to my father, which is in my possession, is a double memento of the two men—the author and the donor, who so greatly influenced his life.
[86] Formerly Dean of Ely, and Lowndean Professor of Astronomy at Cambridge.
[87] Josiah Wedgwood.
[88] William Snow Harris, the Electrician.
THE 'BEAGLE' LAID ASHORE, RIVER SANTA CRUZ.