90 LIFE OF PROFESSOR HUXLEY cHAP. IV 



The award of the Copley is a kindness I feel very- 

 much. . . . 



The Congress ^ seems to have gone oft' excellently. I 

 consider that my own performance of the part of dummy 

 was distinguished. 



So the Lawes business is fairly settled at last ! " Lawes 

 Deo," as the Claimant might have said. But the pun 

 will be stale, as you doubtless have already made all 

 possible ejiigrams and punnigrams on the topic. 



My wife joins with me in kindest regards to Mrs. 

 Evans and yourself. If Mrs. Evans had only come up to 

 the Maloja, she would have had real winter and no cold. 

 — Ever yours very faithfully, T. H. Huxlet. 



10 SOTJTHOLIFF TeRRACE, EaSTBOURNE, 

 Nov. 15, 1888. 



Mt dear Hooker — You would have it that the E.S 

 broke the law in giving you the Copley, and they certainly 

 violated custom in giving it to me the year following. 

 Who ever heard of two biologers getting it one after 

 another ? It is very pleasant to have our niches in the 

 Pantheon close together. It is getting on for forty years 

 since we were first " acquent," and considering witli what 

 a very considerable dose of tenacity, vivacity, and that 

 glorious firmness (which the beasts who don't like us 

 call obstinacy) we are both endowed, the fact that we 

 have never had the shadow of a shade of a quarrel is 

 more to our credit than being ex-Presidents and Copley 

 medallists. 



But we have had a masonic bond in both being well 

 salted in early life. I have always felt I owed a great 

 deal to my acquaintance with the realities of things gained 

 [in] the old Rattlesnake. 



I am getting on pretty well here, though the weather 



^ The International Geological Congress, at which he was to 

 have presided. 



