e New Museums (where I was dissecting some beast
or other) reproving me for my white shirt, and telling me that flannel
was far more suitable for dissections. John Willis Clark (who afterwards
became Registrary of the University) was then Curator of the New Museums,
and encouraged me to work in his department, and I well remember my pride
when my preparation of a hedgehog's inside was added to the Museum. J.
W. Clark was the kindest of men, and I, like many another undergraduate,
used to dine with him and his mother at Scrope House. There some of us
were introduced for the first time to good claret. I remember Mrs Clark
(rather a masterful old lady) saying, "Drink your wine like a good boy
and don't talk nonsense," as though these precepts contained the whole
duty of undergraduate man. J. W. Clark was the patron and director of
the undergraduates' Amateur Dramatic Society (the A. D. C.), and
occasionally took a part himself. I have a clear recollection of hearing
him (attired in red tights) exclaim in his peculiar pronunciation, in
which the letters _l_ and _r_ were indistinguishable, "I am the srave of
the ramp."

I had left to the last the man whose kindness towards me as an
undergraduate I valued most highly, and whose friendship it is still my
good fortune to possess--I mean Henry Jackson, now Professor of Greek,
but at that time a Trinity lecturer. I have an image of him walking up
and down his room in Neville's Court with a pipe in his mouth (which
burned more fiercely than did the pipes of other men), and talking with a
humour and enthusiasm which were a perpetual delight. A literary
venture, _The Tatler in Cambridge_, originated among undergraduates under
the editorship of the present Canon Mason. To this I contributed a paper
_On the Melancholy of Bachelors_, which was accepted, chiefly, I think,
through the kindness of E. Gurney. I shall never forget my delight when,
on the day of its publication, Henry Jackson came round to my rooms to
tell me that he liked it.

I must now return to my more serious employments. It was at the
suggestion of E. C. Stirling that I became a medical student and began to
work for the Natural Sciences Tripos. In order to get more time for the
last-named examination I kept my small stock of mathematics simmering as
it were, and managed (without giving much time to the subject) to get a
mathematical degree as fifth among the Junior Optimes in 1870. I had the
pleasure of b