[161]. Her old fellow student, Dr. Annie Clark, who had graduated with her at Berne, came from Birmingham to give the anaesthetic.
[162]. Miss Miranda Hill died in June 1910.
[163]. By a strange coincidence she lies within a few yards of her old friend and champion, Sir James Stansfeld. See Appendix [G].
[164]. See The London Gazette, Friday, August 25, 1837.
[165]. The authors have sought to supply a want, more or less widely felt, of simple Tracts, which, while endeavouring to set forth the deepest truths of Christianity, shall avoid the phraseology of certain schools, as jarring on the minds of many.
Those who see any degree of successful effort in the Tracts already published are invited to assist in obtaining for them, and others of the series, such a circulation as may best ensure their usefulness.
[166]. S. J.-B. was thinking mainly of Dr. Heron Watson and Dr. G. W. Balfour.
[167]. The passage has already been quoted, pp. 396-7.