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and often thought that this is the motto for every scientific Letter 281 

 worker. I am sure it is yours if you do not give up pan- 

 genesis with wicked imprecations. 



By the way, G. Jager : has just brought out in Kosmos 

 a chemical sort of pangenesis bearing chiefly on inheritance. 



I cannot conceive why I have not offered my garden for 

 your experiments. I would attend to the plants, as far as 

 mere care goes, with pleasure ; but Down is an awkward 

 place to reach. 



Would it be worth while to try if the Fortnightly would 

 republish it [i.e. the lecture] ? 



To T. H. Huxley. Letter 282 



In 1877 the honorary degree of LL.D. was conferred on Mr. 

 Darwin by the University of Cambridge. At the dinner given on 

 the occasion by the Philosophical Society, Mr. Huxley responded 

 to the toast of the evening with the speech of which an authorised 

 version is given by Mr. L. Huxley in the Life and Letters of his 

 father (Vol. L, p. 479). Mr. Huxley said, " But whether that doctrine 

 [of evolution] be true or whether it be false, I wish to express the 

 deliberate opinion, that from Aristotle's great summary of the biological 

 knowledge of his time down to the present day, there is nothing 

 comparable to the Origin of Species, as a connected survey of the 

 phenomena of life permeated and vivified by a central idea." 



In the first part of the speech there was a brilliant sentence which 

 he described as a touch of the whip "tied round with ribbons," and 

 this was perhaps a little hard on the supporters of evolution in the 

 University. Mr. Huxley said " Instead of offering her honours when 

 they ran a chance of being crushed beneath the accumulated marks 

 of approbation of the whole civilised world, the University has waited 

 until the trophy was finished, and has crowned the edifice with the 

 delicate wreath of academic appreciation." 



Down, Monday night, Nov. igth [1877]. 



I cannot rest easy without telling you more gravely 

 than I did when we met for five minutes near the Museum, 

 how deeply I have felt the many generous things (as far 

 as Frank could remember them) which you said about me 



only be dogged. You go whome, Master Crawley, and think o' that, and 

 maybe it'll do ye a good yet. It's dogged as does it. It ain't thinking 

 about it." (Giles Hoggett, the old Brickmaker, in The Last Chronicle 

 of Bar set, Vol. II., 1867, p. 188.) 



1 Several papers by Jager on " Inheritance " were published in the 

 first volume of Kosmos, 1877. 



