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the while it was nothing but an attack of palpitation 

 such as young people are liable to and seem none the 

 worse for after alL We are as happy that you are happy 

 as you can be yourself, though from your letter that 

 seems saying a great deal. I am prepared to be the 

 young lady^s slave ; pray tell her that I am a model 

 father-in-law, with my love. (By the way, you might 

 mention her name ; it is a miserable detail, I know, but 

 would be interesting.) Please add that she is humbly 

 solicited to grant leave of absence for the Teneriffe trip, 

 unless she thinks Northallerton air more invigorating. — 

 Ever your loving dad, T. H. Huxley. 



On April 3, accompanied by his son, he left 

 London on board the Aorangi. At Plymouth he had 

 time to meet his friend W. F. Collier, and to visit 

 the Zoological Station, while, " to my great satisfac- 

 tion," he writes, "I received a revise {i.e. of 'Capital 

 the Mother of Labour ') for the May Nineteenth Century 

 — from Knowles. They must have looked sharp at 

 the printing-office." 



It did not take him long to recover his sea-legs, and 

 he thoroughly enjoyed even the rougher days when 

 the rolling of the ship was too much for other people. 

 The day before reaching Teneriffe he writes : — 



I have not felt so well for a long time. I do nothing, 

 have a prodigious appetite, and Harry declares I am 

 getting fat in the face. 



Santa Cruz was reached early on April 10, and in 

 the afternoon he proceeded to Laguna, which he 

 made his headquarters for a week. That day he 

 walked 10 miles, the next 15, and the third 20 in 



