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on Tuesday last. It was a dance on deck, and was 

 very pretty. Enormous profusion of flags and flowers 

 all over the ship. I asked one of the midshipmen 

 to dine with us at the ' round table ; ' he had shown 

 us over one of the ships on a previous day, as I told 

 you, and proved an awfully nice little fellow, curi- 

 ously like P. N. W. 1 Suffers always horribly from 

 sea-sickness, and gave a dismal account of his life at 

 sea. , He was only about eighteen, with that perfect 

 bearing which I think Lankester is right in pre- 

 ferring to University manners. Even the bluejackets 

 have it. 



By the way, apropos of the B.A. I suppose you 

 have heard that Lord Salisbury is to be President 

 next year at Oxford. You had better be thinking 

 whom to invite as guests, leaving a margin in case 



should redeem his promise. I shall meet 



him between this and then somewhere and ascer- 

 tain. 



I gave my lecture on Sea Urchins to the Inner 

 Brotherhood. Mr. Keen 2 wants me to give a public 

 lecture on hydrophobia. He will take the chair. I 

 am certainly on the up grade. Mytsie reads the 

 German pamphlet, and I work two and a half hours, 

 so my book is getting on. 



March 12. 



There has been a most extraordinary change in 

 the weather. Up to yesterday we had three of the 

 calmest days that have been since I came. The sea 

 was without a ripple, and Char, and I were last night 



1 Mr. Waggett. * The English Consul, 



