The Edinburgh correspondent of the Daily Times writes : — " The honorury degree of L.L.D. was conferred on Mr Darwin, of Cambridge, on the 17th of November, and the proceedings on the occasion were of an unusually lively character. A large' audionce had assembled on the occasion, and the galleries were filled by undergraduates, who were even more noisy than usual, and put cenain questions with a directness which was more remarkable than polite. The climax was reached, however, when the effigy of a monkey, dressed in academicals, was drawn across the hall from one gallery to another on a cord. Mr Darwin is not likely soon to forget the shouts of merriment caused by the hint thus insinuated asto his '^descent,' though -the", Public Orator did his besc in a florid . I Latin oration, delivered ore rotunda, to : take the sting put of the pranks of the junior members of the University, of , which he is himself so distinguished an = ornamQuC . ... ' :
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Clutha Leader, Volume IV, Issue 184, 18 January 1878, Page 7
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