. Science-gossip . hered to- must be many such which may be, from time totime, available for acquisition, but, of course, theseshould only be of the very first rank of such men,or at least those whose names have become house-hold words gether in theirnew building,we see howsmall is therepresenta-tion of Sci-ence in theNational Por-trait all thereappear to beno more thanthirty repre-sentatives outof 1,036 por-traits. Thismay to someextent be ac-counted forby the factthat until re-cently thesepictures havehad no settledhome, conse-quently fewpeople knewwhose por-traits weret h e re an
. Science-gossip . hered to- must be many such which may be, from time totime, available for acquisition, but, of course, theseshould only be of the very first rank of such men,or at least those whose names have become house-hold words gether in theirnew building,we see howsmall is therepresenta-tion of Sci-ence in theNational Por-trait all thereappear to beno more thanthirty repre-sentatives outof 1,036 por-traits. Thismay to someextent be ac-counted forby the factthat until re-cently thesepictures havehad no settledhome, conse-quently fewpeople knewwhose por-traits weret h e re andwhose wereabsent amongscientific wor-thies. It is tobe hoped thatbefore the al-ready well-filled walls become more crowded, other and eminent ture, Art, Jurisprudence, Politics, or \\ may have their portraits placed where We propose to place in review before our readers they may be readily seen and venerated. There those portraits which are of especial interest to June, 1896.—No. 25, Vol. III. B. /. H. Charles Darwin. among stu-dents of na-ture in itswidest wouldthink that theCouncil of theRoyal Societywould takeupon itselfthe duty offurthering thedesirable ob-ject, by re-commending,when oppor-tunity occurs,any portraitswhich can beobtained. Atpresent, thatwhich ise V e r y o n esbusiness ap-pears to bethe especialduty of noo n e—h e n c ethe paucity inthe represen-tation of menwho haveattained toeminence inScience, ascomparedwith Litera- SCIENCE-GOSSIP. them, giving a short sketch of each whom theyportray. This will be made more valuable by theaddition of sketches from the pictures themselves,by Miss J. Hensman, who has very kindly consentedto make them for our pages, and to whom we desireto express our indebtedness. The first picture which catches our eyes onentering Room xvii. is the replica of a fineportrait painted for the Linnean Society, atBurlington House, of the late Charles Robert Darwin, (1809-1882). This portrait is by the Hon. John C
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