CHAPTER XI 



Invitation to give the Friday evening lecture for the British 

 Association at Bradford Lectures at the Royal Insti- 

 tution Gilchrist lectures Second marriage 

 Mackenzie Walcott Victoria Cave Dr. Ryle 

 Sketches of Thirlmere Visit to Bolton Abbey Bristol 

 British Association meeting Glasgow B.A. meeting 

 Expedition to Arran Presbyterian opinions Contro- 

 versy with the Duke of Argyll Second visit to Arran 

 The Arran forest. 



IN the spring of 1873 I received an invitation from 

 the Council of the British Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science to deliver the Friday evening 

 lecture, and as the next meeting was arranged to be 

 held at Bradford, the centre of the large coal-bearing 

 district of Yorkshire, the council especially wished 

 me to make my lecture embrace in some way the 

 prevailing local industry. I had neither energy 

 nor spirits for engaging in such an effort, and was 

 therefore about to decline the invitation, but my 

 children set their faces against my doing so. They 

 urged that the council had paid me a great compliment 

 in inviting me to deliver this lecture, and that the 



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