on. —­refuses to go to Oxford as Linacre Professor. —­or Master of University College. —­debt to Carlyle. —­health in 1881. —­his title of Dean. —­his nunc dimittis postponed by death of F. Balfour. —­his notion of a holiday. —­queer correspondents. —­table talk of, in 1882. —­presented with the freedom of the Salters.  —­President Royal Society. —­qualifications for. —­reluctance to accept. —­or create division in the Society. —­or to commit it to debateable opinions. —­art of governing the headstrong. —­a record in cab-driving. —­effect of anxiety on handwriting. —­holiday defined. —­composition of a presidential address. —­confesses himself to Tyndall. —­the thought of extinction. —­“faded but fascinating”. —­increasing ill-health. —­gives up anatomy. —­looks forward to an “Indian summer”. —­re-reads the “Decline and Fall”. —­rumoured acceptance of a title. —­getting into harness as a tonic. —­ordered abroad. —­takes up Italian again. —­papal and pagan Rome. —­a decayed naturalist, will turn antiquarian.  —­Radicals and arbitrary acts. —­not roused even by prospect of a fight. —­moral courage and picture galleries. —­retires from public life. —­illness makes him shirk responsibility. —­at Filey. —­medicinal effect of a book on miracles. —­science and creeds. —­intention to revise work on the Mollusca. —­writes “From the Hut to the Pantheon”. —­at Ilkley. —­his career indirectly determined by Dr. Ransom’s overworking. —­visit to Arolla. —­effect of. —­second visit to Arolla. —­begins study of gentians. —­theological work, a sort of crib-biting. —­death of a visitor at Arolla, memento of him. —­his boyhood and education compared with Spencer’s. —­administrative insight. —­his only sixpence earned by manual labour. —­attack of pleurisy.  —­Science and Art Department examinership. —­reply to the Duke of Argyll on pseudo-science. —­on coral reef theories. —­thinks of retiring to Shanklin. —­at Savernake.  —­“An Episcopal Trilogy”. —­acknowledgment of error. —­letter on Murray’s theory of coral reefs. —­his own share in the work of science. —­speculation and fact. —­honorary committee of French teachers. —­supports free library for Marylebone. —­on titles of honour. —­the Irish question. —­the philosophy of age, “lucky it’s no worse”. —­death of his second daughter. —­paper philosophers.  —­Trustee of British Museum. —­consolation for age in past service. —­the stimulus of vanity. —­depression. —­recovery at the Maloja. —­renewed work on gentians. —­receives Copley Medal. —­a centre of society at Maloja. —­receives a futile “warning”. —­refuges for the incompetent. —­battles not to be multiplied beyond necessity. —­a “household animal of value”. —­appearance of, in 1889. —­works at the limit of his powers. —­marriage of his youngest daughter. —­hatred of anonymity. —­settles at Eastbourne. —­controversy on Agnosticism. —­aim in controversy. —­and in philosophy. —­on suffering fools gladly. —­his autobiographical sketch. —­superiority of the male figure.