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some Department documents — nothing alarming, 

 only more worry for the Asst. Examiners, and that 

 we do not mind " ; and finally signing the Report. 

 But to do this after taking so small a share in the 

 actual vs'ork of examining, grew more and more 

 repugnant to him, till on October 12 he writes : — 



I will read the Report and sign it if need be — though 

 there really must be some fresh arrangement. 



Of course I have entire confidence in your judgment 

 about the examination, but I have a mortal horror of 

 putting my name to things I do not know of my o-wn 

 knowledge. 



In addition to these occupations, he wrote a short 

 paper upon a fossil, Ceratochelys, which was read at 

 the Royal Society on March 31 ; while on April 7 

 he read at the Linnean (Botany: vol. xxiv. pp. 101- 

 124), his paper, "The Gentians : Notes and Queries," 

 which had sprung from his holiday amusement at 

 Arolla. 



Philosophy, however, claimed most of his energies. 

 The campaign begun in answer to the incursion of 

 Mr. Lilly was continued in the article " Science and 

 Pseudo -Scientific Realism" {Coll. Essays, v. 59-89) 

 which appeared in the Nineteenth Century ior February 

 1887. The text for this discourse was the report of 

 a sermon by Canon Liddon, in which that eminent 

 preacher spoke of catastrophes as the antithesis of 

 physical law, yet possible inasmuch as a "lower 

 law" may be "suspended" by the "intervention of 



