130 LIFE OF PROFESSOR HUXLEY cHAP. VI 



On June 25 he wrote to Professor Eay Lankester, 

 enclosing a letter to be read at a meeting called by 

 the Lord Mayor, on July 1, to hear statements from 

 men of science with regard to the recent increase of 

 rabies in this country, and the efficiency of the 

 treatment discovered by M. Pasteur for the pre- 

 vention of hydrophobia. 



T quote the latter from the report in Nature for 

 July 4 :— 



Monte Generoso, Tessin, Suisse, 

 June 25, 1889. 



My dear Lankester — I enclose herewith a letter 

 for the Lord Mayor and a cheque for £5 as my subscrip- 

 tion. I wish I could make the letter shorter, but it is 

 pretty much " pemmican " already. However, it does 

 not much matter being read if it only gets into j^riut. 



It is uncommonly good of the Lord Mayor to stand up 

 for Science, in the teeth of the row the anti-vivisection 

 pack — dogs and doggesses — are making. 



May his shadow never be less. 



We shall be off to the Maloja at the end of this week, 

 if the weather mends. Thunderstorms here every day, 

 and sometimes two or three a day for the last ten days. — 

 Ever yours very faithfully, T. H. Huxlet. 



Monte Generoso, Switzerland, 



Jmie 25, 1889. 



Mt Lord Mayor — I gi-eatly regret my inability to be 

 present at the meeting which is to be held, under your 

 Lordship's auspices, in reference to M. Pasteur and his 

 Institute. The unremitting labom's of that eminent 

 Frenchman during the last half-century have yielded 

 rich harvests of new truths, and are models of exact and 

 refined research. As such they deserA^e, and have received. 



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