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spot by the Morning Advertiser) that religion did not attack Letter 224 

 science. When, however, I say not at all right, I am not 

 sure whether it would not be wisest for scientific men quite 

 to ignore the whole subject of religion. Goldwin Smith, who 

 has been lunching here, coming with the Nortons (son of 

 Professor Norton 1 and friend of Asa Gray), who have taken 

 for four months Keston Rectory, was strongly of opinion it 

 was a mistake. Several persons have spoken strongly to me as 

 very much admiring your address. For chance of you caring 

 to see yourself in a French dress, I send a journal ; also with 

 a weak article by Agassiz on Geographical Distribution. 

 Berkeley has sent me his address, 2 so I have had a fair 

 excuse for writing to him. I differ from you : I could hardly 

 bear to shake hands with the " Sugar of Lead," 3 which I 

 never heard before : it is capital. I am so very glad you will 

 come here with Asa Gray, as if I am bad he will not be dull. 

 We shall ask the Nortons to come to dinner. On Saturday, 

 W T allace (and probably Mrs. W.), J. Jenner Weir (a very good 

 man), and Blyth, and I fear not Bates, are coming to stay the 

 Sunday. The thought makes me rather nervous ; but I shall 

 enjoy it immensely if it does not kill me. How I wish it was 

 possible for you to be here ! 



To M. J. Berkeley. 4 Letter 225 



Down, Sept. 7th, 1868. 



I am very much obliged to you for having sent me your 

 address 5 .... for I thus gain a fair excuse for troubling 



1 Professor Charles Elliot Norton, of Harvard, is the son of the late Dr. 

 Andrews Norton, Professor of Theology in the Harvard Divinity School. 



- The Rev. M. J. Berkeley was President of Section D at Norwich 

 in 1868. 



3 "You know Mrs. Carlyle said that Owen's sweetness reminded her 

 of sugar of lead." (Huxley to Tyndall, May I3th, 1887: Huxley's Life, 

 II, p. 167.) 



4 Miles Joseph Berkeley (1803-89) was educated at Rugby and Christ's 

 College, Cambridge ; he took orders in 1827. Berkeley is described by 

 Sir William Thiselton-Dyer as " the virtual founder of British Mycology " 

 and as the first to treat the subject of the pathology of plants in a systematic 

 manner. In 1857 he published his Introduction to Cryptogamic Botany. 

 (Annals of Botany, Vol. XL, 1897, p. ix ; see also an obituary notice by 

 Sir Joseph Hooker in the Proc. Royal Society, Vol. XLVII., p. ix, 1890.) 



5 Address to Section D of the British Association. (Brit. Assoc. 

 Report, Norwich meeting, 1868, p. 83.) 



