CHAPTER VI. 



LAST YEARS IN ENGLAND : 1860-1865. JET. 40-45. 



Philip returned to Warrington on June u, i860: and on 

 the following Friday he joined the schools in their annual ex- 

 cursion. His friends were sorry to see that he had not that 

 freshness of spirit which they had expected after so long and 

 complete a change. He could not overcome his intense 

 anxiety for the boy. He did not commence his pulpit duties 

 tor two months, when he preached the sermons for the schools. 

 Meanwhile he had his work for the Smithsonian Institution, and 

 to arrange for the large collections he had made for the War- 

 rington Museum, consisting not only of shells, but of birds, 

 reptiles, Crustacea, dried plants, etc. He had remembered its 

 interests wherever he travelled, begged for it when he would 

 not ask for himself, and devoted to it the books and geological 

 specimens presented to him from the State of New York. As 

 the room formerly occupied by the library was almost unused, 

 he was allowed to have it till it was wanted, while he arranged 

 the shells of the Museum, and also those of the Smithsonian,* 

 which paid rent in the form of books and specimens. 



At the end of June, he attended the meeting of the British 

 Association at Oxford. He wrote to Dr. Henry from Section 

 D. (Zoological) at the new Museum : " I have just opened 

 the Section, as far as work is concerned, with a communication 

 about American science, principally to make known the plan 



* As the Smithsonian Institution will often be mentioned, it may be 

 briefly designated as above. 



