[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.
[73] Debate of 27th August, 1889, as reported in The Times of 28th
August.
[74] Yule had published a brief but very interesting Memoir of Major
Rennell in the R. E. Journal in 1881. He was extremely proud of the
circumstance that Rennell's surviving grand-daughter presented to him
a beautiful wax medallion portrait of the great geographer. This
wonderfully life-like presentment was bequeathed by Yule to his friend
Sir Joseph Hooker, who presented it to the Royal Society.
[75] Knowing his veneration for that noble lady, I had written to tell her
of his condition, and to ask her to give him this last pleasure of a
few words. The response was such as few but herself could write.
