[239] Stanmore, vol. ii. p. 121.
[240] Thomas Graham Balfour (1813–1891), M.D. of Edinburgh; compiler of the first four volumes of Statistics of the British Army; assistant-surgeon to the Grenadier Guards.
[241] Mr. Milton had been sent out to Scutari by the War Office to assist the Purveyor-in-Chief, and Miss Nightingale considered that he had dealt only in official “whitewash.”
[242] On this subject, see below, p. [338].
[243] Stanmore, vol. ii. pp. 119–122.
[244] See Stanmore, vol. ii. p. 124.
[245] In chap. ix. of vol. vi. Kinglake accepts the finding of the Chelsea, Board as the last word on the dispute. For the other side, see Sir Alexander Tulloch's Crimean Commission and the Chelsea Board, 2nd ed., with preface by Sir John McNeill (1880).
[247] Preface to Tulloch's Crimean Commission, etc., 1880, p. xiii.
[248] For these addresses, see a pamphlet printed at Edinburgh in 1857, entitled Addresses Presented to Sir John McNeill, G.C.B., and Colonel Tulloch, with their Answers.