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colour from the uniformity of opposition offered 

 by their representatives in Parliament to what 

 we believe to be, in the great Irish question, the 

 cause alike of humanity, of justice, of reason, 

 and of union.' " The protest was signed by Sir 

 H. Roscoe, M.P. (President of the Association), 

 Mr. Picton, M.P. (Chairman of Committee), Dr. 

 E. Woakes (Treasurer), Dr. W. J. Collins (Hon. 

 Secretary), and thirteen others. 



On June 28 he took the chair at the meeting 

 of the Chamber of Commerce of the Empire. 

 The Canadians moved a " Fair Trade " resolution, 

 which, however, was rejected. 



On July 13 his diary notes : " With Alice and 

 the children and Daisy Norman to Switzerland." 

 They went first to Zurich, " then Stachelberg, to 

 the rockfall at Elm, up the Klonthal, then to 

 Wartenstein. Made an expedition to Vattis and 

 the head of the Kunchels Pass, the Gorge of the 

 Tamina, to Tamins to have a look at the Kunchels 

 from the other side." They returned home on 

 August 6. All the while, as in former Swiss 

 tours, he was collecting material for the book 

 which he brought out later on the Scenery of 

 Switzerland. " I have been working principally 

 at geology," he says, " and reading especially 

 Heim's excellent volume in the Swiss Geological 

 Survey, which seems a real masterpiece." 



There had been some idea of their being with 

 the Tyndalls in Switzerland — joining forces for 

 a day or two, at least — but the Tyndalls do not 

 appear to have left England till later. Professor 

 Tyndall was much out of health at the time. 

 In August we find him writing from Switzer- 



