20 LIFE OF SIR JOHN LUBBOCK ch. xxvi 



Towards the end of August he paired for the re- 

 mainder of the Session and went to Switzerland and 

 later to Cornwall. His health was much improved 

 by the change and rest, and soon after his return 

 home he went to Nottingham, addressing on 

 October 17 a Congress on Early Closing at which 

 there were present delegates from more than thirty 

 associations. They went through his Bill, clause 

 by clause. In the early part of December he 

 suffered a severe blow in the death of his old and 

 valued friend Professor Tyndall. It had been 

 again, on the whole, a very trying year for him. 



