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yet all personal friends cf hers, including all members 

 of the family, the poor Master separated from the 

 rest in his official seat. All the undergraduates of 

 Pembroke were present, each provided with a lovely 

 wreath, carried in procession to the grave. The whole 

 of the east end was one mass of white flowers, the 

 coffin with its own flowers being placed in the middle 

 of the aisle. The procession walked first all round 

 the quad, and then through Christ Church Meadows, 

 being met at Holywell by the choir. 1 



This is the last letter I shall write. All well here, 

 and the Interlopers 2 know me now. Weismann 

 accepts invitation to lecture, and is on his way on 

 purpose. I have obtained an invitation from the 

 Royal Society for him to the ' soiree.' 



Four weeks more, and the writer of this letter 

 was also borne through Christ Church Meadow, and 

 laid to rest near the young girl whom he had made 

 his friend, and whose death he deeply mourned. 



It was thought at this time that a country home 

 would be possibly better for him. Many drives were 

 taken in search of houses or of possible sites for 

 building, and he was often positively boyish and 

 merry during these expeditions. 



On one of the last days of his life he drove up to 

 Boar's Hill, and it is impossible to forget his delight 

 in the beauty of the woods in their fresh spring 

 dress, the ground one mass of bluebell, the hedges 

 white with ' May.' 



He began to devise experiments again, and also 

 set to work to arrange his papers and manuscripts 

 in the most methodical way. As has been said, he 



1 Of St. Giles's Parish Church. 2 A pet name for the two babies. 



