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mountains are formed, under pressure. He gave 

 an account of it, on the 12th of this month, before 

 the Royal Society, exhibiting the models. 



On the 19th his book on Free Trade was 

 published, and on the same day he gave one of 

 his breakfast parties to the following guests : 

 " The Aga Khan, Seth Lowe, Ives Guyot, A. B. 

 Kempe, Major Craigie, F. Gal ton, L. A. Hanbury, 

 C. Rothschild, A. Hope Hawkins, F. Macmillan, 

 R. S. Dickinson and B. D. Jackson." He had 

 two more breakfast parties this year, and of 

 the second he writes as " my last breakfast 

 party " ; but this meant, no doubt, the last for 

 the present summer only. In spite of this form 

 of hospitality being " archaic " as one of his 

 friends ungratefully spoke of it, he always seems 

 to have collected a large and interesting gathering. 



It was in July of this year that he began 

 working at a paper on the forms of stems. 



He was not altogether in accord with some 

 of the leaders of his party as to the best policy 

 with regard to promoting the Free Trade prin- 

 ciples on which they were all agreed. On July 

 18 he writes : " To a small meeting at Devon- 

 shire House to consider our Free Trade Policy — 

 James, Portman, Lichfield, H. Hobhouse, St. Loe 

 Strachey and Gull. I did not agree with most 

 of the others, as I thought it would have been 

 better to have stayed in the Liberal -Unionist 

 Association and fought the Protectionists." 



Some twelve months earlier, as has been noted, 

 the end of his thirty years' war for early closing 

 had appeared in sight, and this August saw the 

 consummation of all his work. They were at 



