150 SIR WILLIAM RAMSAY 



Empress accompanied by Sir Frank Lascelles, British 

 Ambassador, came to the Chemical Institute. On the 

 21st he lectured in German to a very large audience at 

 the Urania, the Berlin popular institute of sciences. 



APPENDIX I TO CHAPTER V 



IT has already been mentioned that Ramsay was Presi- 

 dent of the Chemical Section of the British Association 

 meeting at Toronto, and a short summary of his address 

 has been given. The story of the journey with his 

 family to Canada and back cannot be told better than 

 in his own words in a letter, dated 10th October, to 

 Mr. Fyfe on his return home. 



" When we started on the Parisian I think I knew 70 of our 

 fellow-passengers, not including many wives ; so there was no 

 lack of company. We took our meals next old Turner of Edin- 

 burgh, 1 who was a very pleasant and talkative neighbour. He 

 keeps his eyes on people's skulls. By the way Mag had the 

 broadest on board ; but Elska and Willie had the more dolicho- 

 cephalic than even I. We had the usual carryings on concerts, 

 lectures one excellent evening of tales from Selous concerning 

 his chase of elephants and lions, and also concerning him in the 

 role of the hunted ; the last was exceedingly dramatic. ... I 

 stood his sponsor on admitting him into the Red Lion Club later 

 on at Toronto. I pled two excuses on his behalf ; first that he 

 had been known to run away from a lion ; second that he had 

 once missed a lion ; and promised on his behalf that while in 



1 The late Sir William Turner, Professor of Anatomy, afterwards 

 Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University. He died in 1916 at an 

 advanced age. 



