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THE Editor invites me to write a few words about the late Prof. L. C. Miall, a man whom I seldom met, but when I did, always with interest and pleasure. More than twentv years ago, when we were editing White's “Selborne” together, I wished to know more of him, and invited him to Oxford for a Sunday. It was like him to have brought no evening dress, but we had a fruitful time, and I found in the man a rare simplicity of mind and manners, and a great interest in his own experience, which he perhaps imparted more freely to a classical man than to one of his own circle. I heard the early history of the chance given him through Prof. Rolleston: how he asked a question after a lecture and was invited to talk it over next day before Rolleston left for Oxford, the result being that Rolleston stayed all day to talk to him and thereafter never forgot him. I heard the story of the little society of scientific men formed to read Homer, and later on he wrote me several letters about the best way to teach a boy Latin: a job which in his “emeritus” days he greatly enjoyed, doing it of course in his own peculiar and independent way.
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FOWLER, W. Prof. L. C. Miall, F.R.S. Nature 107, 18 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/107018a0
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