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Warden of Keble and Dr. Liddon married them, and 

 the whole service was very impressive. 



June. — Mr. Spottiswoode's death has been a ter- 

 rible blow. Service at the Abbey. We put off our 

 party on June 27th ; it seemed improper to have a 

 party, mainly composed of scientific people, the very 

 day after the death of the President of the Eoyal 

 Society. 



Ytth. — Dinner at the Pagets'. Met Browning, 1 

 who is entirely on Carlyle's side a projpos of Froude's 

 recent revelations. 



13th. — Went to Cambridge to stay with the 

 Humphrys. Sir John Lubbock, Mr. Watts, Mr. M. 

 Arnold get their degrees. 



15tJi. — Went to Professor and Mrs. Allman, at 

 Parkston. He is a most fascinating naturalist of the 

 old type, caring for birds, and beasts, and flowers. 



Met Mr. E. Clodd the other night, who alluded to 

 ' Physicus ' 2 and the tone of depression in the book 

 (' Candid Examination of Theism '), which depression 

 he does not understand and rather despises. 



This year Mr. Eomanes and Professor Ewart set 

 up a small laboratory on the Geanies coast, and the 

 Journal notes : 



Professor Ewart could not get the farmhouse he 

 hoped, and this was unfortunate, as he had written 

 to the British Association and invited one or two 



1 Mr. Browning told the same story of the Carlyles at this party which 

 Mrs. Ritchie narrates in Tennyson, Buskin, and Browning, pp. 198, 199. 



2 The nom de plume adopted in writing Candid Examination of 

 Theism. 



