CHAPTER XVII. 



SPEZTA OENOA BEGINS MOLECULAR AND MICROSCOPIC SCIENCE TURIN 

 SPEZIA BRITISH FLEET LETTERS FROM MRS. SOMERVILLE 

 GARIBALDI SEVERE ILLNESS FLORENCE MY BROTHER'S DEATH 

 NAPLES ERUPTION OF VESUVIUS J. S. MILL CHANGE IN PUBLIC 

 OPINION ON WOMEN'S EDUCATION EIGHTY-NINTH YEAR DESCRIBES 

 HER OWN CHARACTER THOUGHTS ON A FUTURE LIFE PROGRESS 

 IN KNOWLEDGE OF GEOGRAPHY VICTORIA MEDAL MEDAL FROM 

 ROYAL ITALIAN GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY LETTER FROM MENABREA 

 ROME, CAPITAL OF ITALY AURORA BOREALIS. 



SOON after my dear husband's death, we went 

 to Spezia, as my health required change, and 

 for some time we made it our headquarters, 

 spending one winter at Florence, another at Genoa, 

 where my son and his wife came to meet 

 us, and where I had very great delight in the 

 beautiful singing of our old friend Clara Novello, 

 now Countess Gigliucci, who used to come to my 

 house, and sing Handel to me. It was a real 

 pleasure, and her voice was as pure and silvery 

 as when I first heard her, years before. Another 

 winter we spent at Turin. On returning to Spezia 

 in the summer of 1861, the beautiful comet visible 



