28 LIFE OF PROFESSOR HUXLEY CHAI'. 1 



as I am fit to travel I am tMnking of going to Lugano, 

 and thence to Monte Generoso. The travelling is easy to 

 Lugano, and I know the latter place. 



My notion is I had better for the present avoid the 

 chances of a wet, cold week in the high places. 



M.B.A.^ ... As to the employment of the Grant, I 

 think it ought to be on something definite and limited. 

 The Pilchard question would be an excellent one to take 

 up. 



seems to have a notion of employing it on some 



geological survey of Plymouth Sound, work that would 

 take years and years to do properly, and nothing in the 

 way of clear result to show. 



I hope to be in London on my way abroad in less 

 than ten days' time, and wiU let you know. — Ever yours 

 very faithfully, T. H. Huxley. 



And on the same day to Sir J. Donnelly : — 



I expect , . , that I shall have a slow convalescence. 

 Lucky it is no worse ! 



Much fighting I am likely to do for the Unionist 

 cause or any other ! But don't take me for one of the 

 enrages. If anybody wiU show me a way by which the 

 Irish may attain all they want without playing the devil 

 with us, I am ready to give them their own talking-shop 

 or anything else. 



But that is as much writing as I can sit up and do all 

 at once. 



^ Marine Biological Association. 



