Heidelberg. Having received and paid for diis special edition, it was 

 incumbent upon me to deliver i8o copies to the University for free 

 distribution and, if this were- done within six months of my examina- 

 tion, I should receive a rebate of seventy marks, an important sum 

 to me then. Owing to Gegenbaur's long illness, all these proceedings 

 had been greatly delayed and my time of grace had long expired, when, 

 at last, the dissertations arrived from Leipsic in July 1881, more than 

 a year after I had taken my degree. 



I thought it unfair that I should be punished for Gegenbaur's illness 

 and, therefore, prepared a memorial to the "High Philosophical Fac- 

 ulty" (of course, with competent advice as to the exceedingly formal 

 phraseology required), explaining that the delay was due to no fault 

 of mine and requesting that the rebate should be granted to me, not- 

 withstanding the belated arrival of the dissertations. Dr. Schady, chief 

 librarian, to whom I showed a copy of the paper, said he thought I 

 was entitled to the money, especially as the work was of a kind which 

 the University liked to send out (gern verschickt) because of its beau- 

 tiful coloured plates. That didn't strike me as having much bearing on 

 the justice of my claim, but "any port in a storm," and if that con- 

 sideration would be helpful, I was quite willing that my advocates 

 should make use of it. Eventually, I received the rebate. 



My attempts to deliver the dissertations were described in a letter of 

 July 29. "I had a funny experience of German officialism yesterday after- 

 noon. I had to take my dissertation to the University, 180 copies, which 

 made a pretty heavy load, even for a stout Dienstmann. I had them 

 carried to the Secretariat, as I had been officially directed to do, but 

 there I was told that they must go down to Herr Gredel, who had 

 charge of these things. Mr. Gredel at once sent them over to the library 

 and Dr. Schady, at the library, at once sent them back to Herr Gredel. 

 The latter gentleman was furious and cursed and rent his garments and 

 threw ashes on his head, after the manner of the Orientals, remarking 

 that there were some people for whom a 'Donnerwetterschlag' was 

 the best thing possible. Nobody seemed to know what his business in the 

 matter was, but thought that some one else would, or ought to know. 

 I finally left the things in disgust and turned them over to the Bedell." 



I was immensely charmed and flattered to receive a visit from Balfour 

 on his way home from Switzerland, an event which I can best de- 

 scribe by reproducing part of the letter of July 28. "My writing has 

 been interrupted by Balfour's visit. He arrived on Tuesday afternoon 

 (July 26) and I went to the station to meet him. He is very brown and 



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