1873 WITH HOOKER IN THE AUVERGNE 101 



regular lectures, he was working to finish his Manual 

 of Invertebrate Anatomy and his Introductory Primer, 

 and to write his Aberdeen address ; he was also at 

 work upon the Pedigree of the Horse and on Bodily 

 Motion and Consciousness. He delivered a course to 

 teachers on Psychology and Physiology, and was 

 much occupied by the Royal Commission on Science. 

 As a governor of Owens College he had various 

 meetings to attend, though his duties did not extend, 

 as some of his friends seem to have thought, to the 

 appointment of a Professor of Physiology there. 



My life (he writes to Sir Henry Roscoe) is becoming 



a burden to me because of . Why I do not know, 



but for some reason people have taken it into their heads 

 that I have something to do with appointments in Owens 

 College, and no fewer th an three men of whose opinion 

 1 think highly have sj.oken or written to me urging 

 's merits very strongly. 



This summer he again took a long holiday, thanks 

 to the generosity of his friends (see p. 67), and with 

 better results. He went with his old friend Hooker 

 to the Auvergne, walking, geologising, sketching, and 

 gradually discarding doctor's orders. Sir Joseph 

 Hooker has very kindly written me a letter from 

 which I give an account of this trip : 



It was during the many excursions we took together, 

 either by ourselves or with one of my boys, tMt I knew 

 him best at his best ; and especially during one of several 

 weeks' duration in the summer of 1873, which we spent 

 in central France and Germany. He had been seriously 

 ill, and was suffering from severe mental depression. For 



