liv Proceedings of Royal Society of Edinburgh. 
her just when his own health was declining, and his need of such 
companionship the greater. 
Among other subjects of interest to him in these latter years, the 
Hakluyt Society had naturally a prominent place, its objects corre- 
sponding closely to the line which he had made more especially 
his own ; and not a few of the merits of various works by others in 
that series have been due, as their authors would willingly admit, 
to the help he so ungrudgingly gave. His own last work in the 
series, The Diary of Sir William Hedges , to which he devoted 
much of his latest energies — poured out like the profuse flowering 
of a dying tree — overflowed into a third volume, which contains, 
inter alia , a mass of curious documentary material towards a 
biography of Thomas Pitt, grandfather of the first Lord Chatham, and 
of “ Pitt Diamond ” celebrity — the story of that famous stone being 
given at length. It was but very shortly before his death that he 
resigned the Presidency of this Society, and sent for his accom- 
plished fellow-labourer, Mr Clements Markham, to express the hope 
that he would succeed him there. He was, naturally, an honoured 
member and Gold Medallist of the Koyal Geographical Society, and 
an Honorary Pellow of our own Scottish Geographical Society. 
He received the LL.D. degree from the University of Edinburgh 
at its tercentenary commemoration. He was also President, till his 
health failed, of the Asiatic Society, and was wont to urge its 
claims for support from all interested in our Eastern Empire. 
He was always on the look out for fresh materials for a second 
edition or supplement to his Glossary of Anglo-Indian Colloquial 
Words and Phrases , and of Kindred Terms, f which appeared in 
1886, the compilation of which, apart from the sense of exhaustion 
which work produced, had been to him, as he says in the touching- 
dedication to his brother, “ trium ferme lustrorum oblectamentum 
et solatium.” Each of the terms is used as a peg whereon to hang 
the quaint medley of illustrations and references collected in his 
miscellaneous reading, and stored till wanted in the chambers of an 
unfailing memory. The book was begun in connection with Dr 
Arthur Burnell, and owes much to his great philological knowledge; 
but he died soon after it was commenced, and some seven-eighths 
of the volume is Colonel Yule’s. The book is far less known, and 
its merits less appreciated, than they deserve to be. 
