Memoir of Edward Forbes, F.R.S., late Regius Professor of Natural History in the University of Edinburgh / by George Wilson and Archibald Geikie.

Date:
1861
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Credit: Memoir of Edward Forbes, F.R.S., late Regius Professor of Natural History in the University of Edinburgh / by George Wilson and Archibald Geikie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    ]83l. and Queen ; salutes “ The Duke steps into the Court of Chancery and sketches Lord-Chancellor Brougham ; attends a sitting of the Lords and Commons ; witnesses a review in Hyde Park and a launch at Woolwich; eats whitebait at Greenwich; promenades in Kensington Gardens; and assists at the Coronation procession. There is willing payment, also, to see the Industri- ous Fleas“ Animalculse ” through the microscope ; “ a whale,” of which we read—“ sat in its belly;” “ Mazeppa s Horses,” and the “ Battle of Waterloo,” at Astley’s, where he admires the “ fine grouping besides endless walks through, the streets of wondrous London, and endless losings and re-findings of his way. He makes the round of the chief theatres— Drury Lane, C-ovent Garden, the Haymarket, the Olympic—and sees Fanny Kemble and her father, Liston, Farren, and other famous actors and actresses. To one so fond of poetry, painting, music, sculpture, and so keenly alive to all the manifestations of wit and humour, dramatic representations were a source of peculiar pleasure all his life, but he records his visits to the theatre in the baldest terms, such as, “ Haymarket Theatre. New Comedy. Mr. Farren, Mr. Harley, etc.” He was very diligent in attendance on church, going generally twice each Sunday, and to a different church or chapel on each occasion. In these attendances he had an eye to the architecture and the altar-piece, as well as an ear for the service. Here are some of his entries :— “ June 26, Sunday.—Went to a church near;1 a 11 do not know in what part of Lon- have been in the east end of the City, don he resided at this time, but, from at no very great distance from the Tower various allusions, his lodgings appear to or the Monument. F