NOTES ON TRAVEL 229 



The American Scientific Association had arranged to 

 hold its meeting in Philadelphia immediately after the 

 British meeting was over, and invited members to go. 

 Most of those who had just come out in time for the 

 Montreal meeting naturally wanted to see the western 

 parts, but many of the earlier arrivals went to Phila- 

 delphia. The Ramsays were among this number. They 

 were invited to stay with Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Smith. 

 Mr. Lloyd Smith was a man of vast learning and 

 acquirements, with a great sense of humour, and the 

 Ramsays found the time spent with him and his kind 

 wife more interesting than the meetings of the society. 

 All good things come to an end and duty was calling, so 

 before the end of the meeting the Ramsays took the 

 homeward trail and sailed in the Polynesian, or, as it 

 was called, the " Rolling Polly." The voyage was wet 

 and stormy and the Polly did not belie her name, so it 

 was a glad sight to see the shores of England once more. 



ICELAND, AUGUST 1895 



" Ramsay and I spent many holidays together, particularly in 

 the Isle of Arran between 1891 and 1894, late in spring and 

 summer. I forget when we first talked seriously of going to 

 Iceland : we made plans for the summer of 1894, but these had 

 to be changed ; it was Arran again that summer. In August 

 1895 at last we started from Granton for Iceland in the Danish 

 Mail Steamer Thyra of the Copenhagen Line D.F.D.S. Ramsay 

 had been working hard and was in want of a rest ; he slept a 

 good deal the first day out and was not long in recovering. There 

 was plenty of interest and amusement in the voyage. We saw 

 the Faroes in every possible light, beginning with fog (as usual) 



