“When I first came up to London I had rooms
in Montague Street, just round the corner from the
British Museum, and there I waited, filling in my
too abundant leisure time by studying all those
branches of science which might make me more
efficient. Now and again cases came in my way,
principally through the introduction of old fellow students, for during my last years at the University
there was a good deal of talk there about myself
and my methods. The third of these cases was that
of the Musgrave Ritual, and it is to the interest
which was aroused by that singular chain of events,
and the large issues which proved to be at stake,
that I trace my first stride towards the position
which I now hold.