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523 



logical work, 423; letters on, 423- 

 426; Order of the Pole Star, 427; 

 a paternal gander, ib. ; his repu- 

 tation and the part he has to play 

 in the world, 427 (cp. 493. 5 10 ) ; 

 scientific work after 1870, 428, 

 429 ; precious half-hours, 428, ii, 

 21; duty of fulfilling a promise, 

 i. 430, ii. 70; learns to smoke, i. 

 423 n. ; attends Presbyterian serv- 

 ice, 439; at Belfast British Asso- 

 ciation, 442 sqq. ; on " grasping 

 the nettle," 444; feeling about 

 vivisection, 466-68 sq., 472, 473 ; 

 grouse-murder, 485; Natural His- 

 tory courses at Edinburgh, 475 

 sq. ; suspects himself of coward- 

 ice, 491; expectation of his visit 

 in America, 493 ; a second honey- 

 moon, ib.; position in the world 

 of thought, ib. ; tugs in New 

 York harbour, 494; prefers the 

 contents of a university to the 

 buildings, 495; old opinions and 

 new truth, ib.; at Niagara, 498; 

 meets his sister again, ib. ; an ad- 

 dress under difficulties, 500; lec- 

 tures on Evolution, 501 sq. ; 

 prophecies fulfilled, 502; the two 

 things he really cares about, 510; 

 posthumous fame, ib. (cp. ii. 295, 

 299) ; ingrained laziness the bane 

 of his existence, 513 (cp. 290); 

 speech on Darwin's LL D. at 

 Cambridge, 514 sq., 5 l8 ; help to 

 a distressed man of science, 516; 

 " bottled life," 519; politics in 

 1878, 523 sq. ; projected Introduc- 

 tions to Zoology, Mammalia, An- 

 thropology, and Psychology. 525; 

 engrossed in the Invertebrates, 

 526 sq. ; affected by his daugh- 

 ter's illness, 528, ii. 88, 94, 95, 102; 

 rationality and the parental ca- 

 pacity, 192; traces diphtheria, i. 

 528. 



Learns Greek, ii. 1 ; Governor 

 of Eton College, 3; makes draw- 

 ing part of the curriculum, ib. ; 

 attends no society except the 

 Royal and Zoological, ib. ; fifty- 

 three a youthful age, ib. ; resigns 

 presidency of Association of 



Liberal Thinkers, 4; LL.D. at 

 Cambridge, ib. ; becomes a "per- 

 son of respectability," ib.; "eats 

 the Iee.k " over Bathybius, 5; 

 advantages of breaking a leg, 10; 

 faith in Natural Selection, 13; 

 " pretty Fanny's way," 15; op- 

 timism and pessimism, 16; friend- 

 ship and criticism, 18; further 

 involved in official duties, 21; In- 

 spector of Fisheries, ib. ; salary, 

 ib. ; duties of inspectorship de- 

 scribed, 23-32; conduct of meet- 

 ings, 28; as a companion, 26 (cp. 

 i. 421) ; as a writer, 27; as a 

 speaker, ib. ; life uninfluenced by 

 idea of future recompense, 29; a 

 child's criticism on, ib. ; refuses 

 to go to Oxford as Linacre Pro- 

 fessor, 32, or Master of Univer- 

 sity College, 34; debt to Carlyle, 

 36 ; health in 1881, 37 ; his title 

 of Dean, 38 ; his nunc dimittis 

 postponed by death of F. Bal- 

 four, 41 ; his notion of a holiday, 

 45 (cp. 63) ; queer correspond- 

 ents, 46 sq. ; table talk of, in 1882, 

 49 (cp. 427) ; presented with the 

 freedom of the Salters, 54; Presi- 

 dent Royal Society, ib. sq. ; quali- 

 fications for, 55, 56; reluctance to 

 accept, 55-57, or create division in 

 the Society, 58, or to commit it 

 to debatable opinions, 60-62 (cp. 

 ii. 120); art of governing the 

 headstrong, 58; a record in cab- 

 driving, 63; effect of anxiety on 

 handwriting, ib. ; holiday defined, 

 ib.; composition of a presidential 

 address, 65; confesses himself to 

 Tyndall, 66; the thought of ex- 

 tinction, 67; " faded but fasci- 

 nating," 67, 68; increasing ill- 

 health, 70; gives up anatomy, ib., 

 414; looks forward to an " Indian 

 summer," 74, 87; re-reads the 

 Decline and Fall, 74; rumoured 

 acceptance of a title, ib-.; getting 

 into harness as a tonic, 85 ; or- 

 dered abroad, ib.; takes up Italian 

 again, 92; papal and pagan Rome, 

 93. 95. 97. 98; a decayed naturalist, 

 will turn antiquarian, 96; Radicals 



