of the
Council which he had written because the original had become more
completely 'scissors and paste' than he could endure.

After the Office came into my charge in 1900, so long as he lived I
never thought of taking any serious step without first consulting
him, and he was always willing to help by his advice, by his personal
influence and by his special knowledge. For the first six years of
the time I held a college fellowship, with the peculiar condition of
four public lectures in the University each year and no emolument.
One year, when I was rather overdone, Darwin took the course for me,
and devoted the lectures to Dynamical Meteorology. I believe he got
it up for the occasion, for he professed the utmost diffidence about
it, but the progress which we have made in recent years in that
subject dates from those lectures and the correspondence which arose
upon them.

In Council it was the established practice to proceed by agreement
and not by voting; he had a wonderful way of bringing a discussion to
a head by courageously 'voicing' the conclusion to which it led, and
frankly expressing the general opinion without hurting anybody's
feelings. . . .

It is not easy to give expression to the powerful influence which he
exercised upon all departments of official meteorology without making
formal contributions to meteorological literature. He gave me a note
on a curious point in the evaluation of the velocity equivalents of
the Beaufort Scale, which is published in the Office Memoirs No. 180,
and that is all I have to show in print, but he was in and behind
everything that was done, and personally, I need hardly add, I owe to
him much more than this or any other letter can fully express.

On May 6, 1904, the year of the South African meeting, he was elected
President of the British Association.

On July 29, 1905, he embarked with his wife and his son Charles, and
arrived on August 15 at the Cape, where he gave the first part of his
Presidential Address. Here he had the pleasure of finding as Governor,
Sir Walter Hely-Hutchinson, whom he had known as a Trinity undergraduate.
He was the guest of the late Sir David Gill, who remained a close friend
for the rest of his life. George's diary gives his itinerary--which
shows the trying amount of travel that he went through. A sample may be
quoted:

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