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early in June. On the 23rd of the month he 

 " asked a question on the use of ' Osprey ' 

 feathers in the Army. Brodrick promised they 

 should be given up." 



On August 22 he was at Cambridge, as the 

 guest of the Vice- Chancellor, taking the chair, in 

 the place of Sir W. H. Flower, at the International 

 Zoological Congress. It was a large and important 

 gathering, delegates coming from many countries. 

 The ceremonies connected with it, which began 

 on the Monday, did not terminate till the Satur- 

 day, on which day he notes, " I gave a party at 

 the Natural History Museum. Haeckel, Schulze, 

 Mobius, Dohrn, Veydowsky, Marcy, Milne Ed- 

 wards, Blanchard, Janet, etc. were there — alto- 

 gether about 450. The Hills " (Hill was the Vice- 

 Chancellor) " very kind and hospitable." 



In September he was at Bristol with Lady 

 Lubbock, for the British Association meeting. 



At the end of October he went to Ireland with 

 his son Harold to give the Inaugural Address at 

 the Irish Bankers' Institute, before mentioned, in 

 the Trinity College hall. He notes that he 

 " spoke on the Indian Currency, and then ex- 

 hibited photographs of most interesting coins, 

 which I had had specially prepared." Afterwards 

 they went on expeditions to one or two places 

 of interest, and suffered a rough passage on the 

 homeward crossing. 



In November he was in Manchester, taking 

 the chair at a Liberal Unionists' meeting at which 

 Mr. Chamberlain was the chief speaker. 



During the autumn he had been in consulta- 

 tion with Lord Northbrook about the Indian 



