Life of Frank Buckland / by his brother-in-law, George C. Bompas ; with a portrait.
- Bompas, George C.
- Date:
- 1887
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Life of Frank Buckland / by his brother-in-law, George C. Bompas ; with a portrait. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![' When the Duke of Wellington was installed as chan- cellor, he had to put the usual questions in Latin, when a name was proposed in solemn convocation for an hono- rary degree. The formula is as follows:— Placetne vobis, Doctores. Placetne vobis, Magistri. He said, Placetne vobis, Doctores; placetne vobis, Magistri. Shortly after- wards he had to read some Latin in which King James's name occvirred. Pulling up short at the word, he turned to the Vice-Chancellor: Mr. Vice-Chancellor, which is it—Jacobus or Jac5bus—Jacobus or Jacobiis? At last he went at it with a plunge— Rex noster Jacobus primus. The shouts of the undergraduates were never louder or more merry.' In the same year Frank was taken by his mother to Malvern. ' The children,' she wrote,' are delighted with the donkeys and the hills, and scramble and slide to the terror of all the passengers. We went to Worcester Cathedral, a most beautiful building within. The only thing that caught Frank's attention was a ghastly figure of a lady who was starved to death, not being able to swallow from a disease in her throat, and one of the Nuneham Harcourts, a Knight Templar, in perfect preservation. We went to see the skeleton of a whale at Cheltenham. There was a tongue bone, the contrivance of which delighted Frank; it was to prevent the water going down the animal's throat, and to help him eject it.' In 1835, Frank first visited London, the journey each way being accomplished in two days. The Surrey Zoological Gardens, the British Museum, and the Colosseum are described in his journal. In Auo-ust ] 835 he was sent to school at Cotterstock,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21782155_0030.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
