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| The Book of Ser Marco Polo : vol.1 |
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Citation Information
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MEMOIR OF SIR HENRY YULE í88o-86.
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In ][88o, Yule was appointed to the Board of Visitors of the
Government Indian Engineering College at Cooper's Hill, a
post which added to his sphere of interests without materially
increasing his work. In 1882, he was much gratified by being
named an Honorary Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of
Scotland, more especially as it was to fill one of the two vacancies
created by the deaths of Thomas Carlyle and Dean Stanley.
Yule had been President of the Hakluyt Society from 1877,
and in 1885 was elected President also of the Royal Asiatic
Society. He would probably also have been President of the
Royal Geographical Society, but for an untoward incident.
Mention has already been made of his constant determina-
tion to judge all questions by the simple touchstone of what he
believed to be right, irrespective of personal considerations. It
was in pursuance of these principles that, at the cost of great
pain to himself and some misrepresentation, he in 1878
sundered his long connection with the Royal Geographical
Society, by resigning his seat on their Council, solely in
consequence of their adoption of what he considered a wrong
policy. This severance occurred just when it was intended to
propose him as President. Some years later, at the personal
request of the late Lord Aberdare, a President in all respects
worthy of the best traditions of that great Society, Yule
consented to rejoin the Council, which he re-entered as a Vice-
President.
In 1883, the University of Edinburgh celebrated its Ter-
centenary, when Yule was selected as one of the recipients
of the honorary degree of LL.D. His letters from Edinburgh,
on this occasion, give a very pleasant and amusing account
of the festivity and of the celebrities he met. Nor did he omit
to chronicle the envious glances cast, as he alleged, by some
British men of science on the splendours of foreign Academic
attire, on the yellow robes of the Sorbonne, and the Palms
of the Institute of France ! Pasteur was, he wrote, the one
most enthusiastically acclaimed of all who received degrees.
I think it was about the same time that M. Renan was
in England, and called upon Sir Henry Maine, Yule, and others
at the India Office. On meeting just after, the colleagues
compared notes as to their distinguished but unwieldy visitor.
" It seems that le style n'est pas l'homme même in this instance,"
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