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spirit of the man. He desired to live peaceably with all men, 

 and so far as we know, he had not a single enemy. His 

 modesty was remarkable ; rarely speaking of his own work, 

 he was ever ready to recognise and do full justice to the 

 work of others. There were in him none of the petty 

 jealousies which haunt meaner minds. The writer remem- 

 bers with gratitude that when he entered fields which 

 Cockle might be said to have made his own, he was not 

 treated as an intruder or a rival, but welcomed as a friend 

 and fellow-worker, and received from his elder an amount 

 of encouragement and help which he can never sufficiently 

 acknowledge. 



Cockle was an excellent correspondent, and when 

 writing on congenial themes would often wax truly 

 eloquent. He had a positive enthusiasm for mathematics, 

 and the discovery of a new theorem always gave him intense 

 delight. The writer has preserved most of the letters he 

 received from him, and placed them, bound in several 

 goodly volumes, among the choicest of his literary treasures. 



Something of a recluse, Sir James Cockle astonished 

 many of his friends, both in England and Australia, by the 

 zest with which, during the last ten or twelve years, he 

 threw himself into the Club life of the great Metropolis. 

 He became a member of the Garrick, the Saville, and the 

 Savage, and an habitue of all three, being particularly 

 attached to the last. Queenslanders visiting London could 

 hardly look on gravely when they saw how their old Chief 

 Justice adapted himself to what one of them called, his 

 " Bohemian and brilliant environment." But, truth to tell, 

 he was not a typical club man. " In the Savage Club 

 (London), of which he was Treasurer 1884-89," writes one 

 in the Monthly Notices of the R. A. S. for Feb. last, p. 192, 

 " it was a familiar sight to see him quietly working at some 

 algebraical research on the back of an envelope or some 

 odd scrap of paper, though always ready to break off and 



