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AITENDIX. 479 Crimea was, for Fcbruaa-y, 9.G ; for March, 10.0 ; for April, 8.4 ; fur May, 7.2; and for June, as before shown, 2.4. The rate of mortality in Manchester was 12.4.— Ibid. I have placed the words ' per annum ' in italics to prevent readers unversed in statistics from being mystified by what might otherwise look like a statement that out of each thousand there died 1173. NOTES TO CHAPTER XI. Note 1. — For form's sake he worded the direction rather cir- cuitously, but made his wish plain. — Seb. Comm., .Second Rep., 1 1, 103 tt seq. Dr Menzies stated that he received similar instruc- tions from I)r Andrew Smith. — Ibid. Note 2.— Seb. Comm., Fourth Rep., 19,969. Note 3. — Mary Stanley — now no more — a daughter of the late Edward, Bishop of Norwich, and a sister of the late Dean of Westminster. Her life has been sketched very briefly and simply — the brevity and simplicity of a powerful writer — by her brother Arthur Stanley, the Dean. Supplement to the 2d edi- tion of his ' Memoirs of Edward and Catharine Stanley. ' Note 4. — ' My mother used to say to me, " Remember, Mary, ' " your lot in life is to sow for others to reap." She was right, ' and I am contented that it should be. so,' — Dean Stanley, quot- ing his sister, ubi supra, p. 14. Note 5. — Where not following the Dean in reference to the part taken by Miss Stanley, I rely a good deal upon the authority of personal statements kindly made by her to myself. Note 6. — At the time, in December, when Miss Stanley's toils began, the ' surgical cases ' were chiefly ' cases ' of frost-bite. Note 7. — The Mystery of the Soldier's Nature. — That many a private soldier of the time of the Crimean war must have been other than what people deemed our private soldiers to be, was proved to our really surprised counti-y by the power, the touching beauty of his letters from the seat of war ; and, when sick or wounded in hospital, his sentiment of noble courtesy and grati- tude towards the high-bred gentlewoman who deigned to be hi? kuid nurse seemed to ally itself dimlj with what, if not piety, was at least a pious tone of thought aud of speech — a tone which under one aspect was all the more courteous if it sprang from no