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sat in judgment on them all, and gave or withheld 

 the means of encouragement to all." He particu- 

 larly referred to the measure for retirement being 

 brought forward, "under the provisions of which, 

 at an age when bishops are appointed to rule great 

 dioceses, and at which politicians were spoken of 

 as rising men, the knowledge and experience of a 

 civil servant will no longer be at the service of 

 his country." In November he attended the public 

 transfer of the Booth collection of birds to the 

 Corporation of Brighton. In the following year he 

 published his Introdttction to tlie Study of Mammals^ 

 Living and Extinct, in which he was assisted by 

 Mr. Lydekker. 



His eldest son Arthur, who was educated at 

 Winchester and Oxford, in accordance with his 

 father's views on the subject of the best general 

 education, and had taken up the profession of 

 an architect, was, to his father's great pleasure, 

 married on the 24th of June 1892 to Alberta 

 Maitland Chambers, youngest daughter of Dr. 

 Thomas King Chambers, and a god-daughter of 

 the King. 



In 1892 he brought together his lectures on the 

 horse in a book entitled The Horse, a Study in 

 Natural History (Kegan Paul), published as part 

 of the "Modern Science Series." It was a subject 

 which appealed to every class of reader, scientific 

 or otherwise. It was the first of the series, and 

 dealt with the history of the animal "as it appears 



