232 Edward Livingston Youmans. 



37 QUEEN'S GARDENS, BAYS WATER, W., April 8, 1867. 



MY DEAR YOUMANS : I issued the closing number of 

 the Biology, or rather double number (it contains ten 

 sheets), on the 3oth of March, just managing, by a good 

 deal of pressure, to save the date. The bound volume is 

 advertised, and I expect to get some copies to-day. 



To-morrow I shall commence the revision of First 

 Principles. I had intended to make one or two replies to 

 criticisms in the first part, but have been dissuaded by the 

 Leweses from doing so. Huxley is just through his Hun- 

 terian course, and is much better than was to be expected, 

 for he has been in a very shaky state during the last three 

 months under a great pressure of work. Tyndall, too, has 

 been doing too much, and has to pull up. He is urgent to 

 get out his volume on Sound, and, as usual, has been be- 

 trayed into overwork by his eagerness. 



April ifth. The inclosure contained in your letter* 

 was a considerable surprise to me. I had anticipated some- 

 thing very much less. What a wonderful steward you are ! 

 I never dreamt a few years ago of any such results arising, 

 and had it not been for you it is clear that no such results 

 would ever have arisen. 



Your remark as to the use that is being made of Mill's 

 name completely fulfils the prophecy I made to him. I 

 told him that I regretted to see the weight of his authority 

 given to a side that is already, to say the least, far too 

 strong, and that the result would be that the classicists 

 would appropriate all he said in their favour, and ignore all 

 he said against them. 



I regret that you are not thinking of coming, having 

 counted on our having a "good time" at Paris together. 

 As you hold out no hopes of this, I think of making my 

 trip to Paris pretty soon probably on the 2pth of this 



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* The reference is to the check for royalty on sales. 



