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AGE, 66-69. FAILING HEALTH—RESIGNS SEAT IN COUNCIL 111;ß
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in the pseudo-Polo fragment (see above, end of Preface), that he
sent Lord Wolseley the very last copy of the 1875 edition of
Marco Polo, with a vigorous expression of his sentiments.
That was probably Yule's last utterance on a public question.
The sands of life were now running low, and in the spring of 1889,
he felt it right to resign his seat on the India Council, to which
he had beén appointed for life. On this occasion Lord Cross, then
Secretary of State for India, successfully urged his acceptance of
the K.C.S.I., which Yule had refused several years before.
In the House of Lords, Viscount Cross subsequently referred
to his resignation in the following terms. He said : " A
vacancy on the Council had unfortunately occurred through the
resignation from ill-health of Sir Henry Yule, whose presence on
the Council had been of enormous advantage to the natives of
the country. A man of more kindly disposition, thorough
intelligence, high-minded, upright, honourable character, he
believed did not exist ; and he would like to bear testimony
to the estimation in which he was held, and to the services
which he had rendered in the office he had so long filled." 73
This year the Hakluyt Society published the concluding
volume of Yule's last work of importance, the Diary of Sir
William Hedges. He had for several years been collecting
materials for a full memoir of his great predecessor in the
domain of historical geography, the illustrious Rennel1.74 This
work was well advanced as to preliminaries, but was not
sufficiently developed for early publication at the time of Yule's
death, and ere it could be completed its place had been taken by
a later enterprise.
During the summer of 1889, Yule occupied much of his
leisure by collecting and revising for re-issue many of his miscel-
laneous writings. Although not able to do much at a time,
this desultory work kept him occupied and interested, and gave
him much pleasure during many months. It was, however,
never completed. Yule went to the seaside for a few weeks
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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. IIe 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 Ilooker, who presented it to the Royal Society.
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