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tenary of Geological Society — Dr. Heim's letter — Old 

 Age Pensions — Elected Rector of St. Andrews Uni- 

 versity — Anglo-Gterman friendship — Correspondence 

 with Count P. Mettemich .... 288 



CHAPTER XLI 



ADDRESSES IN SCOTLAND 



Rector at St. Andrews — His address to the students — Free 

 Trade speech at Dundee — Darwin's " Centenary " — 

 Several of his Measures lost in House of Commons — 

 Excavations at Avebury — Address to the Royal 

 Scottish Geographical Society — Receives the Living- 

 stone medal ...... 258 



CHAPTER XLII 



EFFORTS FOR FREE TRADE 



Death of Beaumont Lubbock, and of Rolfe — Correspond- 

 ence on the Land Taxes — Free Trade discussions in 

 the Chambers of Commerce — Free Trade meeting at 

 Queen's Hall — ^Darwin Centenary — Japanese apprecia- 

 tion of his books ...... 263 



CHAPTER XLIII 



A YEAR OF UNCERTAIN HEALTH 



Arguments for BYee Trade — Proportional Representation 

 — Domestic losses — Ex-President Roosevelt — Out of 

 health again — Primitive Paternity — Golf with Lord 

 Northcliffe — To bed again— Mr. Lloyd (Jeorge and 

 the House of Lords — Correspondent of the Institute 

 of France — The Declaration of London . . 274 



CHAPTER XLIV 



BEGINNING OF HIS LAST ILLNESS 



[The Herkomer portrait — Anglo-German friendship — A 

 busy spring — The House of Lords in the balance — 



