vin. Many visits to
Glasgow and to Largs have brought me to look up to him as my master,
and I cannot find words to express how much I owe to his friendship
and to his inspiration.

During these years there is evidence that he continued to enjoy the
friendship of Lord Rayleigh and of Mr. Balfour. We find in his diary
records of visits to Terling and to Whittingehame, or of luncheons at Mr.
Balfour's house in Carlton Gardens, for which George's scientific
committee work in London gave frequent opportunity. In the same way
there are many records of visits to Francis Galton, with whom he was
united alike by kinship and affection.

Few people indeed can have taken more pains to cultivate friendship than
did George. This trait was the product of his affectionate and eminently
sociable nature, and of his characteristic energy and activity. In
earlier life he travelled a good deal in search of health, {166} and in
after years he attended numerous congresses as a representative of
scientific bodies. He thus had unusual opportunities of making the
acquaintance of men of other nationalities, and some of his warmest
friendships were with foreigners. In passing through Paris he rarely
failed to visit M. and Mme d'Estournelles and "the d'Abbadies." It was
in Algiers in 1878 and 1879 that he cemented his friendship with the late
J. F. MacLennan, author of _Primitive Marriage_; and in 1880 he was at
Davos with the same friends. In 1881 he went to Madeira, where he
received much kindness from the Blandy family--doubtless through the
recommendation of Lady Kelvin.

Cambridge.

We have seen that George was elected a Fellow of Trinity in October 1868,
and that five years later (October 1873) he began his second lease of a
Cambridge existence. There is at first little to record: he held at this
time no official position, and when his Fellowship expired he continued
to live in College, busy with his research work, and laying down the
earlier tiers of the monumental series of papers which he gave to the
world. This soon led to his being proposed (in November 1877) for the
Royal Society, and elected in June 1879. The principal event in this
stage of his Cambridge life was his election in 1883 as Plumian Professor
of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy. {167} His predecessor in the
Chair was Professor Challis, who had held office since 1836, and is now
chiefly remembered in connection with Adams and the pla