puzzling over the problem for a moment, the answer suddenly came. 

 Turning to Mrs. Huxley, I said: "Doesn't that girl over there on the 

 table remind you of Millais'. 'No'.?" To which she replied: "How very 

 amusing! that is Millais' *No'; it was painted from her." The young 

 lady in question was Miss Tennant, who afterward married Henry 

 Stanley, the African explorer. 



While, in general, I met with only kindness and courtesy from my 

 English hosts, I encountered, in some few instances, astonishing rude- 

 ness. For instance, to a young lady whom I took down to supper one 

 evening, I narrated an adventure which I had had in the West. She said 

 in surprise: "Surely, that didn't happen in England?" "No," I an- 

 swered, "it happened in Colorado; I'm a Yankee, you know." "No, I 

 never should have thought it. I like American men very well, but 

 American women are all very loud and vulgar, don't you think so?" I 

 wanted to say, but I didn't: "I don't regard my Mother and sisters loud 

 and vulgar at all." To be sure, I had no sisters, but my sister-in-law 

 would have done in a pinch. Some patronage and something of the con- 

 descension which Lowell noted in foreigners I did meet with but it 

 was kindly meant. 



A fellow student in the laboratory lived at Harrow and twice I spent 

 week-ends (the term wasn't in use then) in his mother's house. That 

 was my first experience of the beautiful English countryside and, though 

 it was winter and the trees were bare, I found it very delightful. At 

 dinner there I met the only man I have ever known who was certain 

 that he had had experiences of the supernatural. He was a naval officer, 

 not at all of the type which would be subject to hallucination, or even 

 especially imaginative. He had been stationed off the north coast of Ire- 

 land and frequently visited a house which was reputed haunted. The 

 experiences of himself and his brother officers in that house were cer- 

 tainly very surprising and, if they were due to fraud, it was trickery of 

 the most skilful description. 



My life in London speedily assumed a steady, routine character, with 

 hardly any visiting of theatres, concerts, or such pubhc entertainments. 



The great scientific societies of London, such as the Royal, the Zoo- 

 logical and the Geological, were a source of unending interest and 

 pleasure, all the more because of their entire novelty in my experience. 

 Various friends opened the meetings to me and I attended with con- 

 siderable regularity. Of my first visit I wrote in a letter home: "On 

 Wednesday evening, at Professor Judd's invitation, I attended the 

 meeting of the Geological Society, which I thoroughly enjoyed, both 



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