66 GROWTH OF THE 'ORIGIN.' Q1855. 



classes, there remain only some such arguments as those which 

 can perhaps be deduced from similar rudimentary structures, 

 and very soon not an argument is left. 



[The following extract from a letter to Mr. Fox [Oct. 

 1855* gives a brief mention of the last meeting of the British 

 Association which he attended :] " I really have no news : 

 the only thing we have done for a long time, was to go to 

 Glasgow ; but the fatigue was to me more than it was worth, 

 and E. caught a bad cold. On our return we stayed a 

 single day at Shrewsbury, and enjoyed seeing the old place. 

 I saw a little of Sir Philip f (whom I liked much), and he 

 asked me 'why on earth I instigated you to rob his poultry- 

 yard ?' The meeting was a good one, and the Duke of 

 Argyll spoke excellently."] 



* In this year he published across a submarine undulatory sur- 



(' Phil. Mag.' x.) a paper " On the face." 



power of icebergs to make recti- f Sir P. Egerton was a neigh- 

 linear uniformly-directed grooves bour of Mr. Fox. 



