_Honorary D.C.L.'s._--It was mentioned in a report of proceedings at the
late Installation, that the two _royal personages_ honoured with degrees,
having been doctored by diploma, would be entitled to vote in
Convocation,--a privilege not possessed by the common tribe of honorary
D.C.L.'s.
Can you inform me whether Dr. Johnson had, or ever exercised, the right
referred to in virtue of his M.A. degree (conferred on the publication of
the _Dictionary_), or of the higher academical dignity to which his name
has given such a world-wide celebrity?