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tickets. Anything that touches progenitorship interests 

 them. You will have a crammed house, I doubt not. 

 Yours ever, JOHN TYNDALL. 



Huxley replied : 



GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ENGLAND AJ*D WALES, 

 April 6, 1870. 



MY DEAR TYNDALL 



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That's a practical application of electricity for you. 



In June he writes to his wife, who has taken a 

 sick child to the seaside : 



I hear a curious rumour (which is not for circulation), 

 that Froude and I have been proposed for D.C.L.'s at 

 Commemoration, and that the proposition has been bitterly 

 and strongly opposed by Pusey. 1 They say there has been 

 a regular row in Oxford about it. I suppose this is at 

 the bottom of Jowett's not writing to me. But I hope 

 that he won't fancy that I should be disgusted at the 

 opposition and object to come [i.e. to pay his regular visit 

 to Balliol], On the contrary, the more complete Pusey's 

 success, the more desirable it is that I should show my 

 face there. Altogether it is an awkward position, as I 

 am supposed to know nothing of what is going on. 



1 Huxley ultimately received his D.C.L. in 1885. 



