[288] This is a department of the College which would not have appealed to Miss Nightingale. She loathed and mocked at inoculation. “Oh, yes, I know,” she once said; “they will give you small-pox or diphtheria or plague or anything you like. You pays your money, and you takes your choice.”
[290] This Committee received its instructions on Feb. 17, and reported on Aug. 24, 1861. The Report (1861) is No. 2867 in the Parliamentary Papers.
[291] It was Lord Herbert, who, on sitting down after his first speech in the House of Lords, and on being asked by a friend beside him whether he had found it difficult, replied, “Difficult! It was like addressing sheeted tombstones by torchlight.”
[292] Army Reform under Lord Herbert, pp. 4–5.
[293] Better known as the Marquis of Ripon, to which rank he was promoted in 1871.
[294] Letter (Nov. 20) to Count Strzelechi, for whom see below, p. [410].
[295] Sir Paul Edmund de Strzelechi, K.C.M.G., C.B., known as Count Strzelechi, Australian explorer, of Polish descent, though a naturalized Englishman, was a great friend of Lord and Lady Herbert, whom he had accompanied on their last journey abroad. He took a prominent part in organizing the Herbert Memorial.
[296] They are collected in a pamphlet (August 1867) entitled Memorial to the Late Lord Herbert.
[297] Letter to Harriet Martineau, September 24, 1861.