pieces for the piano by Samuel Butler and Henry Festing Jones: MS. with H. F. Jones. 1886. Holbein’s _La Danse_: a note on a drawing in the Museum at Basel. Stood, unsuccessfully, for the Professorship of Fine Arts in the University of Cambridge. Dec. 29. Death of his father and end of his financial embarrassments. 1887. Engaged Alfred Emery Cathie as clerk and general attendant. _Luck or Cunning_ as the main means of Organic Modification? An attempt to throw additional light upon Charles Darwin’s theory of Natural Selection. Was entertained at dinner by the Municipio of Varallo-Sesia on the Sacro Monte. 1888. Took up photography. 1888. _Ex Voto_: an account of the Sacro Monte or New Jerusalem at Varallo-Sesia, with some notice of Tabachetti’s remaining work at Crea and illustrations from photographs by the author: MS. at Varallo-Sesia. _Narcissus_: a Cantata in the Handelian form, words and music by Samuel Butler and Henry Festing Jones: MS. of the piano score in the British Museum. MS. of the orchestral score with H. F. Jones. In this and the two following years contributed some articles to the _Universal Review_, most of which were republished after his death as _Essays on Life_, _Art_, _and Science_ (1904). 1890. Began to study counterpoint with William Smith Rockstro and continued to do so until Rockstro’s death in 1895. 1892. _The Humour of Homer_. A Lecture delivered at the Working Men’s College, Great Ormond Street, London, January 30, 1892, reprinted with preface and additional matter from the _Eagle_. Went to Sicily, the first of many visits, to collect evidence in support of his theory identifying the Scheria and Ithaca of the _Odyssey_ with Trapani and the neighbouring Mount Eryx. 1893. “L’Origine Siciliana dell’ Odissea.” Extracted from the _Rassegna della Letteratura Siciliana_. “On the Trapanese Origin of the Odyssey” (Translation). 1894. _Ex Voto_ translated into Italian by Cavaliere Angelo Rizzetti. “Ancora sull’ origine dell’ Odissea.” Extracted from the _Rassegna della Letteratura Siciliana_. 1895.