i66 SIR GEORGE DARWIN 



of visits to Terling and to Whittingehame, or of 

 luncheons at Mr. Balfour's house in Carlton 

 Gardens, for which George's scientific committee 

 work in London gave frequent opportunity. In 

 the same way there are many records of visits to 

 Francis Galton, with whom he was united alike 

 by kinship and affection. 



Few people indeed can have taken more pains 

 to cultivate friendship than did George. This 

 trait was the product of his aifectionate and 

 eminently sociable nature, and of his characteristic 

 energy and activity. In earlier life he travelled 

 a good deal in search of health/ and in after 

 years he attended numerous congresses as a re- 

 presentative of scientific bodies. He thus had 

 unusual opportunities of making the acquaint- 

 ance of men of other nationalities, and some 

 of his warmest friendships were with foreigners. 

 In passing through Paris he rarely failed to visit 

 M. and Mme d'Estournelles and "the d'Abbadies." 

 It was in Algiers in 1878 and 1879 that he cemented 

 his friendship with the late J. F. MacLennan, 

 author of Primitive Marriage ; and in 1880 he was 

 at Davos with the same friends. In 1881 he went 

 to Madeira, where he received much kindness from 

 the Blandy family — doubtless through the recom- 

 mendation of Lady Kelvin. 



Cambridge. 



We have seen that George was elected a Fellow 

 of Trinity in October 1868, and that five years 



^ Thus in 1872 he was in Homburg, 1873 in Cannes, 1874 in 

 Holland, Belgium, Switzerland and Malta, 1876 in Italy and Sicily 



