accumulation in their view, in case there should be no other means of securing an extension of the Library Buildings in Old Aberdeen. The Senatus, however, by sending a deputation to the Government, obtained a grant of £5000 for the erection; while, at a later period, Lord Rosebery, as Rector, obtained the grant of £3000 for adding to the building. The accumulated funds were first turned to account, when the new Library was erected, in preparing the catalogue and in the purchase of books for making up blanks; which operations did not exhaust the accumulated savings, so that, when the building addition was made to the South Wing at Marischal College, the Court was enabled to advance £2000 for the purchase of buildings in Longacre. This, of course, was incompetent, except as a loan for which interest ought to be given. The Court was divided on the legality; but, being once carried, it remains and will remain without either repayment or interest.

One other motion, made at this meeting of the Council, indicative of the march of events, was that by Dr. David Brown, designed to secure the due representation of the Universities of Scotland on the Board of National Education, contemplated in the Education Bill then before the House of Lords, It was agreed to, unanimously.

In October, 1869, the Court transmitted to the Council its deliverance anent the Compensation Grant,—which was simply "a resolve to defer taking any steps in reference to the subject meantime ". The Rev. R. Stephen, of Renfrew, gave notice of a motion expressive of the opinion that the time had now come for amending the Universities Act, and conferring greater power on the University Councils.

CHAPTER VI.

SECOND HALF OF UNIVERSITY CAREER-1870-1880.

Winter Session, 1870-71, and Recess following. THE year 1871 saw the opening of a number of new incidents and enterprises. In the first place, it became notable by Grote's death, on the 18th of June. The malady that removed him (Bright's disease of the kidney) manifested itself very early in the year. It affected his locomotive capabilities-he could neither walk nor ride without danger. Yet, his mental faculties remained intact, and he maintained an active correspondence on the subjects that interested him. I gave him a summary of Spencer's new edition; in acknowledging which, on the 18th of February, he described his ailment in terms that showed that it had now full possession of him. He also discussed Taine's book on Intelligence, of which I had also made an abstract. In April, he was able to take part in filling up a vacancy in the Philosophy Examinership of the University of London. Towards the end of April, I arrived in London, and was painfully struck with his altered

appearance. In the end of May, I returned northward, taking leave of him for good; it being quite apparent to himself and to others that his end was not far off. I had not reached home when the newspapers announced that his illness had taken a worse turn. On learning this, I returned to London, and found that he was in that stage when the poison of the disease affected his brain, producing delirium, and scarcely leaving him with the power of speech, while he was barely able to recognize known faces. The lingering stage endured nearly a fortnight.

After the funeral, I saw Mrs. Grote with reference to the publication of the MS. that he had left behind on Aristotle. This was the first thing to be looked to; and I had to undertake the editing, in conjunction with Croom Robertson, who did all the laborious part of the work,-taking up his abode at Shere (Mrs. Grote's country house) for the sake of access to the needful books. I likewise read the MS., but did very little for the proof-sheets came into my hands.

revision, until the Before the session

commenced, I visited Mrs. Grote, while Robertson was still at work with her, so as to arrange for the publication. The book actually appeared in the following summer.

With regard to a biography, Mrs. Grote herself resolved to prepare what she called Grote's Personal Life; leaving to me to give some account of his political and scholarly labours.

Mrs. Grote was occupied with the Personal Life until the beginning of 1873, when it appeared in the month of March. It was to precede the biographical details that fell to me to execute. These formed an introduction to a selection from his minor works,-published in October of the same year. The composition of the biographical part, as well as the selection and arrangement of the various papers, had been completed in 1872, or the beginning of 1873. I had to take up Grote's first efforts as an author, between 1820 and 1830; the topics being chiefly political. His pronounced Liberalism chimed in with the current of feeling and opinion that brought about the Reform Bill; and he was adopted, in 1832, as member of Parliament for the City of London. His Parliamentary appearances I had to set forth under the two heads of Speeches on the Ballot and Miscellaneous Speeches, presenting a full abstract of both. His retirement from Parliament led to the beginning of his final draft of the History of Greece, on which he was occupied till 1856. The twelve volumes had to be rapidly surveyed, together with a summary of the critical estimates given of the work at its different stages. This occupied forty pages. The Plato was then reviewed, on the plan of setting forth the author's characteristic handling. A much longer space had to be devoted to the Aristotle, from the still greater weight and fulness of the matter, albeit he had yet a considerable portion of the writings to undertake when his life was cut short. In a comparatively brief summary of his remaining public life, principal stress was laid upon his administrative activity in University College and the University of London. Of this last, he was the ruling spirit for a number of years, and his loss was irreparable.

Winter Session, 1871-72, and Recess following. The year 1871 saw the meeting of the British Association in Edinburgh, which I attended. Here,

I encountered Dr. E. L. Youmans, the enterprising agent of Messrs. D. Appleton & Co., publishers, New York. He took the opportunity that the Association gave of promulgating the scheme of the International Scientific Series, with a view to obtaining suggestions and contributions from members of the Association. He had already formed a publishing alliance with Herbert Spencer, who, being present at this meeting, assisted him in the way of introduction to the members of the Association most likely to help him. I made the offer of a volume on Mind and Body, for which, by this time, I had a considerable accumulation of materials, and hoped to bring out without much delay. It appeared in 1872.

The alacrity I showed in undertaking this volume was, no doubt, owing to my various preparatory essays and discourses of previous years. Nearly the whole of the theoretical portion had already been provided in some form or other. The general thesis of the connexion of mind and body had been extended by endeavouring to assign modes of nervous action appropriate to the leading divisions of the mind. The whole subject had been simmering for a number of years. More particularly was the attempt made to deal with the connexion of mind and brain by numerical estimates; namely, by taking, on the one hand, the number of psychical situations, and, on the other hand, the nervous groupings rendered possible by the approximately assignable number of nerve cells and fibres.

The primary object of the work being to establish by conclusive evidence the thorough-going connexion of mind