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Elephant and Castle station with, two horses placed 

 " tandem " wise. After this came the first of the Scotch 

 tours, a lecture at Chester being delivered on the way, 

 and succeeded by others at Stirling, Edinburgh (2), 

 Falkirk, Dumbarton, Dumfries, Dunse, Kirkcudbright, 

 Dollar, and Helensburgh. On the way home a stay of 

 a few days was made at Conisborough, near Rotherham, 

 and a short address delivered on "Ants," three or four 

 spare leaves from a dining-room table serving as make- 

 shift blackboards. Then followed engagements at 

 Manchester, Stafford, Weymouth (2), Worcester, Har- 

 borne, Cardiff, Malvern, Norwood (5), and Yarlet Hall, 

 near Stafford (3) ; and the season closed with " Insect 

 Transformations " at Marlborough College on June 

 4th. 



Seventy-four lectures only had been given, as 

 against eighty-three in the preceding season, but as no 

 less than twenty of the latter consisted merely of the 

 short " gorilla " addresses at the Crystal Palace, which 

 certainly were not "sketch-lectures," and perhaps ought 

 hardly to be dignified with the title of lectures at all, 

 the year's engagements were in reality rather more nu- 

 merous than those of the preceding season. 



In the course of his career my father naturally 

 received many curious and amusing letters. He was 

 accustomed to the correspondent who writes asking for 

 an amount of information which, if given in full, would 

 require about as much space as that occupied by an 

 ordinary three-volume novel. He was familiar with the 

 twelve or fourteen closely written, and perhaps crossed, 



