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LIFE OF PROFESSOR HUXLEY CHAP, xix 



In the interview I had with Lord Salisbury on the subject 

 of an order of merit ages ago * I expressly gave him to 

 understand that I considered myself out of the running having 

 already received more than I had any right to expect. And 

 when he has gone out of his way to do honour to science, it is 

 stupid of Nature to strike the discordant note. 



His letter appeared in Nature of September I (vol. xlvi. 

 p. 416). In it he declared that both Lord Salisbury's and 

 Mr. Gladstone's Governments had given him substantial 

 recognition ; that Lord Iddesleigh had put the Civil List 

 pension expressly as an honour ; and finally, that he himself 

 placed this last honour in the category of ' unearned in- 

 crements." 



* See p. 175. 



