I must add one word of personal explanation. In 1899 the Siamese Government applied to our Foreign Office for the loan of a British official for two years to reorganise the education of their country. Sir George Kekewich, Secretary to the Board of Education, kindly suggested my name; and accordingly I went to Siam in October, 1899, on two years' leave of absence. March, 1902. J. G. D. C. |