1895 LETTERS 349 



There are histories of zoologj' and of philosophical 

 anatomy, but they all of them seem to me to miss the 

 point (which you have picked out of the' pemmican). 

 Indeed, that is just why I took such a lot of pains over 

 these 50 or 60 pages. And I am immensely tickled by 

 the fact that among all the critical notices I have seen, 

 not a soul sees what I have been driving at as you have 

 done. I really wish you would write a notice of it, just 

 to show these Gigadibses {vide Right Rev. Blougram) ^ 

 what blind buzzards they are ! 



Enter a maid. " Please sir, Mrs. Huxley says she would 

 be glad if you would go out in the sun." "All right, 

 Allen." Anecdote for your next essay on Government ! 



The fact is, I have been knocked up ever since 

 Tuesday, when our University Deputation came off ; and 

 my good wife (who is laid up herself) suspects me (not 

 without reason) of failing to take advantage of a gleam 

 of sunshine. 



By the way, can you help us over the University 

 business? Lord Rosebery is favourable, and there is 

 absolutely nobody on the other side except sundry Philis- 

 tines, who, having got their degrees, are desirous of 

 inflating their market value. — Yours very truly, 



T. H. Huxley. 



The next is in answer to an appeal for a sub- 

 scription, from the Churcli Army. 



Jan. 26, 1895. 



I regret that I am unable to contribute to the funds 

 of the Church Army. 



I hold it to be my duty to do what I can for the cases 

 of distress of which I have direct knowledge ; and I am 



^ See Browning's "Bishop Blougram'.'? Apology": — "Gigadibs 

 the literary man " with his 



Abstract intellectual plan of life 

 Quite irrespective of life's plainest laws. 



