CHAPTER IX 



NOTES ON TRAVEL 



RAMSAY was fond of travel, and devoted many of his 

 holidays to excursions in Scotland, Norway, France, 

 Germany and Switzerland. But there were also many 

 occasions when business of some kind took him abroad, 

 as when he went to lecture in Paris or Berlin, to preside 

 over a meeting in the United States or Canada, to receive 

 the Nobel Prize in Stockholm, or to India at the request 

 of the Government. Some of these journeys have been 

 already referred to and sufficiently described in previous 

 pages. With regard to others it was felt that the 

 continuity of the life history would be unduly inter- 

 rupted by relating the details of all these journeys in 

 proper chronological order. Accordingly a short account 

 of each has been separately drawn up ; the story of the 

 wedding trip in 1881 has been written by Lady Ramsay, 

 to whom also the following pages are indebted for an 

 account of the first visit to Canada in 1884, to Finland 

 in 1907, and to India in 1900-01. Professor W. P. Ker, 

 of University College, who accompanied Ramsay to 

 Iceland in 1895, has been good enough to tell the story 



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