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Free Trade and (7) my new book." Such were a 

 few of his self-set hohday tasks even at the age 

 which he had now reached. He was very well 

 and active, however, physically as well as men- 

 tally, this year, in spite of a few minor illnesses. 

 He played golf when he had the opportunity. 

 The Kingsgate golf course is within the distance 

 of a full drive of the garden of the Castle. The 

 early autumn was passed at Kingsgate with occa- 

 sional visits to London. They had bought a new 

 house, 48 Grosvenor Street, and slept in it for the 

 first time on August 30. Lord Avebury writes that 

 he regrets the old St. James's Square house, but 

 that the new house is " nice and bright and in 

 some ways more convenient." On October 18 

 he went with his daughter, Mrs. Pelham, to 

 Edinburgh, where they were the guests of Lord 

 and Lady Salvesen. He had been invited to give 

 the opening address to the Royal Scottish Geo- 

 graphical Society, and the secretary had suggested 

 the "Scenery of Switzerland" as a suitable subject. 

 In previous years the Society had been addressed 

 by such distinguished men as Sir Henry Stanley, 

 Dr. Nansen, Captain Scott, R.N., Lord Roberts, 

 Sir G. T. Goldie, and Lord Milner. On the even- 

 ing of his arrival in Edinburgh he went to a 

 dinner of the Merchants' Company, and made a 

 speech, and on the following day gave his lecture 

 to the Royal Geographical Society. The Presi- 

 dent of the Society was his old friend, Professor 

 James Geikie. 



Later he received the " Livingstone " Gold 

 Medal of the Society, with the following minute : 



