- "A woman singular in endowments, in suffering, and in faith; to
whom to live was Christ, to die was gain."
[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. This
letter was not to be found after my father's death, and I can only
conjecture that it must either have been given away by himself (which
is most improbable), or was appropriated by some unauthorised
outsider.
[76] So Sir M. E. Grant Duff well calls it.
[77] Academy, 19th March, 1890.
[78] He was much pleased, I remember, by a letter he once received from a
kindly Franciscan friar, who wrote: "You may rest assured that the
Beato Odorico will not forget all you have done for him."
[79] F.-M. Lord Napier of Magdala, died 14th January, 1890.
[80] This notice includes the greater part of an article written by my
father, and published in the St. James' Gazette of 18th January,
1886, but I have added other details from personal recollection and
other sources. - A. F. Y.
A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SIR HENRY YULE'S WRITINGS
COMPILED BY H. CORDIER AND A. F. YULE[1]
1842 Notes on the Iron of the Kasia Hills. (Jour. Asiatic Soc. Bengal,
XI. Part II. July-Dec. 1842, pp. 853-857.)
Reprinted in Proceedings of the Museum of Economic Geology, 1852.
1844 Notes on the Kasia Hills and People. By Lieut. H. Yule.
