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It all went off so well that it may almost be 

 regarded as a first step towards the Entente 

 Cordiale. Until the visit of the Chambers, 

 scarcely any English had been to the Exhibition. 

 The Report of the Commissioners remarks on the 

 fact and states that, whether in consequence of 

 this visit or for some other reason unknown, as 

 soon as the Chambers had been there a constant 

 stream of English visitors followed. 



Lord Avebury expressly says that he found the 

 public claims on his time much less heavy since 

 his move up to the House of Lords. He had 

 previously been invited to take the Presidency of 

 the Royal Statistical Society, but had not felt 

 that he could accept it while in the House of 

 Commons. On his elevation to the Upper House, 

 however, it was again proposed to him and he now 

 acceded. 



The President of the Anthropological Institute 

 wrote to him requesting him to deliver the first 

 of an annual series of " Huxley " lectures, in 

 memory of his old friend Professor Huxley, and 

 he gave the lecture accordingly in November of 

 this year. 



Under considerable pressure from the President 

 of the Board of Trade (Mr., afterwards Lord, 

 Ritchie) he served on the advisory Commercial 

 Intelligence Committee, but in spite of its rather 

 formidable title this was not an office which 

 occupied much time. He also consented to be 

 nominated for the Chancellorship of St. Andrews 

 University, which fell vacant through the death 

 of the Duke of Argyll. 



The above are a few of the occupations of a 



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