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any sleep. He was most friendly and, I thought, 

 took his last leave of me at parting. They drive 

 twenty-six miles, and the same in returning. 

 Lady A. intimated it was mainly his wish to see 

 me that brought them so far. He painfully, with 

 a pencil, put his name in the Visitors' Book.' 



'Front Brctemore, August 20. — On the 19th 

 Prince Hassan and his tutor arrived at Braemore. 

 He has quite fallen into English ways and speaks 

 English perfectly. On Monday he made his first 

 stalk on the mountains, and was so excited by the 

 thought of it that he threw all the cushions about 

 in the drawing-room ! I ascended Ben Derig 

 yesterday — the highest mountain in these parts. 

 I saw the rare " parsley-fern " peep out from under 

 the flat stones which protect its long roots. To- 

 morrow we are to have a yachting day.' 



' September 24. — At the British Museum. I 

 am shaking hands, literally, with the Iguanodon, 

 having got both his fore paws, each with a bayonet- 

 like weapon of great power.' Of his other papers 

 this year may be mentioned ' Extinct Leonine 

 Marsupial (Thylacoleo carnifeoc) ; ' ' On the Fossil 

 Mammals of Australia, genus Phascolomys ; ' 

 ' Fossil Reptilia of Cretaceous Formations,' 4to, 

 3 j plates. 



On October 4, 1871, he writes again to his 

 wife : ' I went to lunch with " Rob Roy," who 

 inquired most kindly after you. His chambers 

 in the Temple are a quaint museum — an epi- 



