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28th. The Anthropologists gave me a lunch. British 

 Chamber of Commerce. Dined with D'Estournelles de 

 Constant — Automobile Club. Spoke again. 



29th. Home. A very interesting and successful 

 time. Every one most kind. 



It is a tolerably full five days for a man who 

 had not been in the best of health for a month 

 previously. He does not seem to have suffered 

 at all from these exertions, for on the very next 

 day he was at the " Royal Society meeting and 

 dinner. Sat between Lord Roberts and Curie 

 (the discoverer of radium)." However, he had 

 to write from High Elms on December 1 : " Still 

 lame." 



Two days later, notwithstanding, he was again 

 in London " to see the Duke of Devonshire 

 about a Free Trade meeting in the City, and 

 had a long talk with him about the whole situa- 

 tion. He is trying to keep the Liberal-Unionist 

 Organisation going on a basis of neutrality, 

 but does not seem sanguine." 



Mr. Chamberlain had arranged for a meeting 

 in the City to put forward his tariff views, and 

 there was a strong desire on the part of many 

 of the City people, including Lord Avebury, to 

 get the Duke to address a meeting after Mr. 

 Chamberlain, by way of a counter-stroke. 



Proposals were made during the year for 

 translation of some of Lord Avebury's books 

 into Welsh, into Catalan, etc. ; but the most 

 remarkable tribute of all to their world-wide 

 vogue is given by the University of Allahabad, 

 which at this time instituted The Pleasures of 

 Life, as one of the books to be taken up for its 



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