. No prayers this morning buy we were all ‘shovelled’ up School and sat at the desks put ready for the Up-School Exams while Gow gave out that ‘Lieutenant de Wattville of the Royal Artillery is hear and asks for a ‘play’ in consideration of his getting into the Staff College’.
After Hall in the absence of the President (Barrington-Ward) and the Vice-President (Low) I had to take the Chair in Nat. Hist. Soc. C. G. Usher read a paper on ‘Bacteria’ (being a queer little person himself his title had I fear caused us some amusement!). He was very learned and talked about corpuscles and other horrors I couldn’t understand but as the paper was addressed to me as Chairman I endeavoured to look intelligent.
. Came down to Oxted by the 4.0 train.