had assembled, to do honour to the memory of the man who had revo- 

 lutionised all departments of human thought. The principal address, in 

 the Senate House, was made by Ray Lankester, who was an uncom- 

 promising "standpatter" and maintained that Darwin and Weissmann 

 had said the last word on Evolution. Professor Oscar Hertwig, of Berhn, 

 spoke in German and dwelt principally on the great services to Darwin- 

 ism which "mein Bruder Richard und ich" had rendered. One of the 

 German delegates was Professor Biitschli, of Heidelberg, who aston- 

 ished me by recognising me at once, recalling the fact that he had 

 examined me for my degree nearly thirty years before. 



Dr. Brunnow had given me a letter to Professor von Domaszewski, 

 the historian of the Roman Empire, which I presented, when I went on 

 to Heidelberg. Our interview was one I shall never forget, in view of 

 what followed five years later. After an amicable debate on the subject 

 of Mommsen, who was always one of my betes noires, the mountainous 

 man suddenly changed the subject to England, which was his particular 

 bete noire. He declared unreservedly that Germany meant to attack 

 England and that when all preparations were complete, would proceed 

 to give Britain the worst threshing she had ever received; "furchtbare 

 Priigel" was his expression. In the time of William II the Universities 

 were one of the principal agencies used by the government in the manu- 

 facture of that strange thing called public opinion in Germany, and I, 

 therefore, felt at once that this declaration was significant. My suggestion 

 that, perhaps, the Germans would not find it so easy to administer the 

 "Priigel," was waved aside as of no importance and the fact that he made 

 no secret of it showed his entire confidence in German invincibility. By 

 birth an Austrian Slav, Domaszewski had become the most ardent of 

 German chauvinists and he proclaimed his pride in belonging to such a 

 wonderful nation. 



In 1910 the Wollaston gold medal of the Geological Society of London 

 was conferred upon me, the greatest honour I have ever received, unless 

 the Oxford degree, two years later, should be ranked even higher. One 

 of the pleasantest features of this high distinction was the shoal of 

 congratulatory letters which the announcement called forth from my 

 English and American friends. As I could not go to London to receive 

 the medal in propria persona, the American Ambassador received it in 

 my place and it was forwarded to me through the State Department. 



The Democrats nominated Wilson for the governorship of New 

 Jersey and he at once plunged into the work of campaigning with zest. I 

 should have thought that, to one of his fastidious temperament, the 



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