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" The minimum fund to establish such scholarships 

 should amount to at least £5000, but a still larger sum is 

 desirable, and if a sufficient sum were raised a professor- 

 ship or readership might be founded. Towards this, 

 subscriptions (see accompanying list) have been promised 

 amounting to upwards of £2900. 



" Subscriptions should be paid in to the Lord Avebury 

 Memorial Fund at the Bank of England and will be 

 acknowledged in the Press. 



" The committee, of which Mr. Cunliffe is chairman, 

 comprises in addition to himself Sir Felix Schuster, 

 Lord Goschen, Lord Inchcape, Mr. J. Robarts, Mr. J. 

 Beaumont Pease, Mr. R. Martin Holland, Lord Welby, 

 Lord George Hamilton, Sir Edward Busk, University 

 of London, Sir William Crookes, O.M., F.R.S., and Lord 

 South wark, London Chamber of Commerce." 



In September the family moved house from No. 

 2 to No. 6 St. James's Square, and Lord Avebury 

 welcomes the move with the note of mild approval 

 that he likes the new house better than he had 

 expected to. But for the moment he was not 

 long there, for they went to North Berwick 

 for their usual autumn " holiday " as he calls 

 it. He was busy enough even there, making 

 excursions, studying the geology, and writing, 

 but no doubt the main business of those autumn 

 days was the playing of golf. They were at 

 home again by October 19, and he resumed his 

 usual routine of taking the chair at meetings 

 and dinners, opening libraries and institutions 

 in various places, and so on. 



A note in his diary of November 23 records : 

 " Jackson said that Goschen told him that in 

 preparing the Queen's speech it was assumed 

 that of course some measure (he forgot which) 

 would come first. Gladstone asked ' Why ? ' 

 and was told that he had said so. This he 



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