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have occupied much space and was not essential to 

 my thesis. Hence I confined myself to a single hint 

 on pp. 242-3, vol. ii. 



Marriage of course cannot be predicated of apes 

 or any other non-human creatures, though their habits 

 sometimes present a remarkable analogy to marriage. 

 — I am, dear Lord Avebury, yours truly, 



E. Sidney Hartland. 



Rt. Hon. Lord Avebury. 



Mr. Hartland is the author of several books 

 touching this subject, but his principal one is 

 the Primitive Paternity to which Lord Avebury 

 refers. 



By August 12 he w^as actually so much better 

 as to play " a few holes with Northcliffe," Lord 

 Northcliffe was their neighbour at Kingsgate, and 

 the Kingsgate golf course, as has been said, was 

 quite near the Castle. On the 23rd he records 

 with pride : " Maurice and I beat Lord Halsbury 

 and Harold at golf." But probably these efforts 

 were greater than he should have made, for on 

 the following day he was unable to go to London 

 as he had intended. They went up, however, on 

 September 1, and the same day Harold went to 

 America, where he was to be for a while in a 

 business house in Boston. 



For several weeks after this he was able to 

 resume the normal active course of his life. On 

 October 13, for instance, he writes : " Carried 

 unanimously in the Chamber of Commerce a 

 resolution calling on Government not to assent 

 to the annexation of Corea by Japan unless 

 Japan could agree not to increase the Corean 

 duties." On the 25th he had "golf at Rich- 

 mond, with Hubbard," and on the following day 



