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suggested by a mere fanatical desire to damage 

 men of science. I can but rejoice, then, that 

 these misguided enthusiasts, whose faith in me 

 has so far exceeded the bounds of reason, should 

 be set right. But that " want of finish " in the 

 matter of accuracy which so terribly mars the 

 effect of the " Great Lesson," is no less conspicuous 

 in the case of the " Little Lesson," and, instead of 

 setting my too fervent disciples right, it will set 

 them wrong. 



The Duke of Argyll, in telling the story of 

 Baihybius, says that my mind was " caught by this 

 new and grand generalisation of the physical basis 

 of life." I never have been guilty of a reclamation 

 about anything to my credit, and I do not mean 

 to be ; but if there is any blame going, I do not 

 choose to be relegated to a subordinate place 

 when I have a claim to the first. The responsi- 

 bility for the first description and the naming of 

 Baihybins is mine arid mine only. The paper on 

 " Some Organisms living at great Depths in the 

 Atlantic Ocean," in which I drew attention to this 

 substance, is to be found by the curious in the 

 eighth volume of the " Quarterly Journal of Micro- 

 scopical Science," and was published in the year 

 1868. Whatever errors are contained in that 

 paper are my own peculiar property ; but neither 

 at the meeting of the British Association in 1868, 

 nor anywhere else, have I gone beyond what is 

 there stated ; except in so far that, at a long-sub- 



