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division"* in the Senate House, I remember finding him at homo 

 reading the ' Grorgias.' 



He had the keenest interest, amounting almost to a passionate 

 delight, in travelling; cities of historic or artistic fame delighted 

 him equally with beautiful scenery. Long after he had become an 

 invalid, he found a fascination in guide-books and maps ; and all his 

 younger friends will recall the sympathetic zeal with which he 

 entered into their projected journeys, and the happy pleasure he took 

 in hearing them speak of recent journeyings and in recalling, with a 

 wonderful vivid memory, his own experiences and ideas about places 

 they had visited. 



Reference has been made to his early pleasure in the old Italian 

 masters. Yet, if any inferences can b3 drawn from the likings of his 

 later years, architecture attracted him even as much as pictures. He 

 had a true feeling and a clear judgment as to genuine excellence : he 

 sketched well, and had a quick eye for proportions, perspective, light 

 and shade. One of his relaxations was to make coloured sketches of 

 buildings that he liked, notably sepia drawings of some of the great 

 Gothic cathedrals and churches of northern France. He kept up his 

 practice of water-colour painting all his life, and in his closing years 

 it proved a great solace to him at times when his strength was so far 

 reduced that he could not work. He had great happiness in looking 

 at architectural pictures and at books on architecture, one of his 

 favourites among the latter being Street's ' Brick and Marble in the 

 Middle Ages.' 



Financial matters and accounts also interested him ; and only a few 

 months before his death he published a brief pamphlet on bookkeep 

 ing by double entry, which he has been known to declare one of the 

 two perfect sciences. He could not resist some reference to the sub- 

 ject in his Presidential Address, making the remark that the notion of 

 a negative magnitude " is used in a very refined manner in book- 

 keeping by double-entry." 



His bearing was gentle, and it was marked by a courtesy that was 

 unfailing. On questions of administration and in discussions, his 

 opinions were stated clearly and quietly. Not that he did not hold 

 decided views or that he would abate one jot of his firm, even chival- 



* In 1891 a proposal was made by the Council of the Senate for the appointment 

 of a syndicate to inquire, among other things, into the expediency of allowing 

 nlternatives for one of the two classical languages in the Previous Examination. 

 Many members of the Senate were convinced that the adoption of an alternative 

 would lead to the extinction of the study of Greek except in the greater public 

 schools ; they consequently opposed the proposal, which, on 29th October, 1891 was 

 rejected by a great majority (525 to 185). 



It may be added that Cayley was in the minority. He allowed his signature 

 to be added to a letter which was sent to the London newspapers as an appeal for 

 assistance in defeating the attempt to resist inquiry. 



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