[63] “Auch in den Literaturen von Frankreich, Italien, Deutschland und
    andere Laendern ist der maechtig treibende Einfluss der Yuleschen
    Methode, welche wissenschaftliche Grundlichkeit mit anmuthender Form
    verbindet, bemerkbar.” (Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft fuer Erdkunde
zu
    Berlin, Band XVII.  No. 2.)

[64] This subject is too lengthy for more than cursory allusion here, but
    the patient analytic skill and keen venatic instinct with which Yule
    not only proved the forgery of the alleged Travels of Georg Ludwig
    von ——­ (that had been already established by Lord Strangford, whose
    last effort it was, and Sir Henry Rawlinson), but step by step traced
    it home to the arch-culprit Klaproth, was nothing less than masterly.

[65] This is probably the origin of the odd misstatement as to Yule
    occupying himself at Palermo with photography, made in the delightful
    Reminiscences of the late Colonel Balcarres Ramsay.  Yule never
    attempted photography after 1852.

[66] She was a woman of fine intellect and wide reading; a skilful
    musician, who also sang well, and a good amateur artist in the style
    of Aug.  Delacroix (of whom she was a favourite pupil).  Of French and
    Italian she had a thorough and literary mastery, and how well she knew
    her own language is shown by the sound and pure English of a story she
    published in early life, under the pseudonym of Max Lyle (Fair Oaks,
    or The Experiences of Arnold Osborne, M.D., 2 vols., 1856).  My mother
    was partly of Highland descent on both sides, and many of her fine
    qualities were very characteristic of that race.  Before her marriage
    she took an active part in many good works, and herself originated the
    useful School for the Blind at Bath, in a room which she hired with
    her pocket-money, where she and her friend Miss Elwin taught such of
    the blind poor as they could gather together.

In the tablet which he erected to her memory in the family burial-place of St. Andrew’s, Gulane, her husband described her thus:—­“A woman singular in endowments, in suffering, and in faith; to whom to live was Christ, to die was gain.”

[67] Mary Wilhelmina, daughter of F. Skipwith, Esq., B.C.S.

[68] Collinson’s Memoir of Yule.

[69] See Notes from a Diary, 1888-91.

[70] The identification was not limited to Yule, for when travelling in
    Russia many years ago, the present writer was introduced by an
    absent-minded Russian savant to his colleagues as Mademoiselle
    Marco Paulovna!

[71] See Note on Sir George Yule’s career at the end of this Memoir.

[72] Addressed to the Editor, Royal Engineers’ Journal, who did not,
    however, publish it.