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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.’ 
'From Braeniore, Azigust 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 carnifex) ; ’ ‘ On the Fossil 
Mammals of Australia, genus Phascolomys \ 
Fossil Reptilia of Cretaceous Formations,’ qto, 
37 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- 
