1893 LETTERS 309 



think that on Natural Inequality of Man will be to your 

 taste. 



Three, or thirty, guesses and you shall not guess what 

 I am about to tell you. 



Eev. Richard Owen has written to me to ask me to 

 write a concluding chapter for the biography of his 

 grandfather — containing a " critical " estimate of him and 

 his work ! ! ! Says he is moved thereto by my speech at 

 the meeting for a memorial. 



There seemed nothing for me to do but to accept as far 

 as the scientific work goes. I declined any personal 

 estimate on the ground that we had met in private society 

 half a dozen times. 



If you don't mind being bothered I should like to send 

 you what I write and have your opinion about it. 



You see Jowett is going or gone. I am very sorry we 

 were obliged to give up our annual visit to him this year. 

 But I was quite unable to stand the exertion, even if 

 Hames had not packed me off. How one's old friends 

 are dropping ! 



Eomanes gave me a pitiable account of himseK in a 

 letter the other day. He has had an attack of hemiplegic 

 paralysis, and tells me he is a mere wreck. That means 

 that the worst anticipations of his case are being verified. 

 It is lamentable. 



Take care of yourself, my dear old friend, and with 

 our love to you both, believe me, ever yours, 



T. H. Huxley. 



Not long after his return he received a letter from 

 a certain G S , who wrote from South- 

 ampton detailing a number of observations he had 

 made upon the organisms to be seen with a magnify- 

 ing glass in an infusion of vegetable matter, and as 

 "an ignoramus," apologised for any appearance of 

 conceit in so doing, while asking his advice as to the 



