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scribbling completed when he was without them, together with small
pocket notebooks filled with accounts of his travels — to Russia, to
England—the sort of thing done in trains and carriages to while away
the time. The manuscript is in general very difficult and at times quite
illegible, especially where he has made jottings in moving vehicles. No
separate reference is made to entries in the (Diary in this work.
3. lie du Levant. Bruxelles: E. Guyot, 1882. 39 pp.
4. Edmond Picard, 1836—1924, was a striking character. After three years
at sea he took a brilliant Doctorat en Droit at the Universite Libre de
Bruxelles. Then as barrister, legal scholar and innovator, traveller, militant
socialist, patron of the arts, member of the Belgian Senate for the
worker's party and social critic, he became an outstanding figure in Belgian
intellectual circles.
5. Armand-Auguste-Ferdinand Thiery, 1868—il955, went to the Universite
de Louvain in October 1886. He became a protege of Cardinal Merrier,
professor in the Institut Superieur de Philosophic set up at Louvain by
the Cardinal, worked under Wundt in Leipzig in psychology and then
directed a laboratory for experimental psychology set up by Mercier.
In 1894 he was attached to the faculty of medicine. He was ordained
in 1896.
6. Paul Heger, 1846—il925, eventually became Rector then President of the
University.
7. The pamphlet in which Fernande showed such a resolute disinterest
was LAfrique aux noirs, Bruxelles: Ferdinand Larcier, 1888. ilt contained
a plea to return American Negroes to Africa.
8. In an anonymous pamphlet on the occasion of his father's death, Otlet
described his father's career. His father had had a hand in establishing
19 tramway systems in such diverse places as The Hague, Munich, Moscow,
Madrid, Alexandria and Naples. The 8-page pamphlet is entitled
Edouard Otlet and has no formal imprint details. It was printed in
Brussels by Oscar Lamberty, the printer of the International Institute of
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