RECOVERED VIGOUR 247 



Zurich, V., 25. x. 1907. 



My dear Lord — I always remember with great 

 pleasure the delightful and charming day of tranquillity 

 and peace I passed at Kingsgate Castle. It was a day 

 of beautiful rest in the struggle of life. . . . 



From London I wrote a card to my bookseller 

 (Miiller) in Zurich, to command to him, to send to you 

 my papers : Geschlechtsleben and Ballonfahrt, and I hope 

 you will find some interest in it, especially in the first- 

 named. To read The Use of Life is, as my daughter 

 said, " better than to go to church." 



From London I went to Oxford, a town full of interest 

 and a curious mixture of old and new mind, which would 

 not be possible, for instance, in our country. We had 

 a delightful excursion to Stonesfield. Returned to 

 London, I spent again two days in the Kensington 

 Museum. One should rather have two weeks. The 

 beauties of the Museum and the interest I took in many 

 specialities of it, made it impossible to give the time 

 for a visit to Cambridge. 



On the 7th October I was obliged to be in Zurich. 

 In Brussel I had a most interesting day with Rutot in 

 the Museum. He showed me his recently-found flint 

 implements out of a stratum underlying marine oligocene, 

 and convinced me of the oligocene man. The most 

 striking is the comparison of the implements of the 

 Tasmanian 50 years ago with Oligocene Man in Belgium. 

 There is a wonderful accuracy ! Tasmanians were 

 " oligocene men," a pity that they are extinct ! . . . 



In the autumn he wrote a letter to the Times, 

 which was followed by some correspondence 

 on the subject of Old Age Pensions. Lord 

 Lansdowne writes to him in reference to it : 



DORREEN, KeNMARE, Co. KeRRY, 



September 20th, 1907. 



My dear Avebury — I have been reading with great 

 interest the correspondence in the Times initiated by 

 you upon the subject of old age pensions. The discussion 

 has been most instructive, and we are all indebted to 

 you for having started it. 



I am, I confess, profoundly alarmed at the outlook. 



