98 LIFE OF SIR JOHN LUBBOCK 



CH. 



Berlin, Schwerin, and Hanover, to see the 



museums." 



Later in the same year he was again in 

 Switzerland. As a member of the Public School 

 Commission, it suited his purposes very well to 

 pay a flying visit to the Alps with Dr. Hornby, 

 headmaster of Eton, and Dr. Ridding, head- 

 master of Winchester, so as to have an oppor- 

 tunity of discussing the proceedings of the 

 Commission. He had, however, only nine days 

 to spare for the trip. They went straight to 

 Interlaken, then to Murren, by the Wengern 

 Alp to Grindelwald, then to Trachsellauenan 

 and over the Petersgrat to Ried, from which 

 place he returned by the Lotschen Pass to 

 Kandersteg, and so home by Thun and Bern, 

 where he paid his respects to the skull of his 

 friend Professor Morlot, which had been left 

 to the Bern Museum. 



Immediately on his return the West Kent 

 contest began. By mutual arrangement no steps, 

 beyond one preliminary meeting, were taken till 

 the middle of August. 



The nomination was on November 19, 1868, 

 on the Vine at Sevenoaks. " Animated, no 

 doubt, by that pure patriotic feeling of which 

 Kentish men are proud, they mustered in hundreds 

 at the nomination, which was held in a cricket- 

 field at Sevenoaks yesterday. The town was 

 made quite gay and bustling by the free exhibi- 

 tion of flags, colours and favours, and by the 

 continuous arrival of well-to-do yeomen in 

 vehicles or on horseback, and by the pouring in 

 of humbler voters on foot. Nearly all wore 



