24 LIFE OF FLOWER 



Mr. and Mrs. Drummond, of Megginch. There he met 

 other friends, such as Dean and Lady Augusta Stanley 

 [after whom a son and a daughter were respectively 

 named] and Colonel Drummond-Hay, of Seggieden, 

 brother of Mr. Drummond. Moreover, he was always 

 interested in the splendid collection of birds made by 

 Colonel Drummond-Hay during his wanderings with 

 the Black Watch." 



Another passage from the same memoir of his life 

 runs as follows : 



" One side of Sir William's life deserves special notice, 

 viz., his social influence, and the endeavour to popularise 

 the great institution with which he was officially con- 

 nected. These influences, developed at the Museum 

 of the College of Surgeons with great success, were 

 brought to bear on a much wider circle in connection 

 with the National Museum and as President of the 

 Zoological Society ; and no one was more fitted than he 

 either for the courtly circle or the large gatherings of 

 working men who flocked on Saturday afternoons to the 

 galleries of the museum. In all his many and varied 

 social functions in his prominent positions he was ably 

 seconded by one who identified herself with his every 

 engagement, and to whom his last volume of collected 

 addresses was dedicated. A man of wide sympathies, he 

 is found at one time addressing a Civil Service dinner, at 

 another a Volunteer gathering, now descanting on evolu- 

 tion to a Church Congress, and again speaking at a 

 Mayoral banquet, a girls' school, or an industrial exhi- 

 bition. The strain on his physique demanded by these 

 efforts would have been great to an ordinary man, but 

 it must have been serious to one whose main energies 



