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afterwards found expression in a lasting memorial. 

 Beside one of his favourite walks, a narrow pathway 

 skirting the blue lakelet of Sils, was placed a gray 

 block of granite. The face of this was roughly 

 smoothed, and upon it was cut the following 

 inscription : — 



In memory of the illustrious English Writer and 

 Naturalist, Thomas Henry Huxley, who spent many 

 summers at the Kursaal, Maloja. 



In a letter to Sir J. Hooker, of October 1, he 

 describes the effects of his trip, and his own surprise 

 at being asked to write a critical account of Owen's 

 work : — 



HODESLEA, EaSTBOTTRNE, 



Oct. 1, 1893. 



My dear Hooker — I am no better than a Gadarene 

 swine for not writing to you from the Maloja, but I was 

 too procrastinatingly lazy to expend even that amount of 

 energy. I found I coxild walk as well as ever, but unless 

 I was walking I was everlastingly seedy, and the wife was 

 unwell almost all the time. I am inclined to think that 

 it is coming home which is the most beneficial part of 

 going abroad, for I am remarkably well now, and my wife 

 is very much better. 



I trust the impaled and injudicious Richard ^ is none 

 the worse. It is wonderful what boys go through (also 

 what goes through them). 



You will get all the volumes of my screeds. I was 

 horrified to find what a lot of stuff there was — but don't 

 acknowledge them unless the spirit moves you. ... I 



^ Sir J. Hooker's yonngest son, who had managed to spike 

 himself on a fence. 



