SIR GEORGE DARWIN i8i 



trying amount of travel that he went through. A 

 sample may be quoted : 



At Johannesburg he gave the second half of his 

 Address. Then on by Bloemfontein, Kimberley, 

 Bulawayo, to the Victoria Falls, where a bridge had 

 to be opened. Then to Portuguese Africa on 

 September 16, 17, where he made speeches in 

 French and English. Finally he arrived at Suez 

 on October 4, and got home October 18. 



It was generally agreed that his Presidentship 

 was a conspicuous success. The following apprecia- 

 tion is from the obituary notice in The Observatory ^ 

 January 191 3, p. 58 : 



The Association visited a dozen towns, 

 and at each halt its President addressed an 

 audience partly new, and partty composed of 

 people who had been travelling with him for 

 many weeks. At each place this latter section 

 heard with admiration a treatment of his 

 subject wholly fresh and exactly adapted to 

 the locaUty. 



Such duties are always trying, and it should not be 

 forgotten that tact was necessary in a country 

 which only two years before was still in the throes 

 of war. 



