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better than even Swanage. There are slight difficulties 

 about the commissariat, but that is the Hausfrau's 

 business, and not mine. At the worst, bread, eggs, milk, 

 and rabbits are certain, and the post from London takes 

 two days ! 



MORTHOE, ILFRACOMBE, N. DEVON, 

 Aug. 23, 1872. 



MY DEAR WHIRLWIND I promise you all my books, 

 past, present, and to come for the Aquarium. The best 

 part about them is that they will not take up much 

 room. Ask for Owen's by all means ; " Fas est etiam ab 

 hoste doceri." I am very glad you have got the British 

 Association publications, as it will be a good precedent 

 for the Eoyal Society. 



Have you talked to Hooker about marine botany ? 

 He may be able to help you as soon as X. the accursed 

 (may jackasses sit upon his grandmother's grave, as we 

 say in the East) leaves him alone. 



It is hateful that you should be in England without 

 seeing us, and for the first time I lament coming here. 

 The children howled in chorus when they heard that you 

 could not come. At this moment the whole tribe and 

 their mother have gone to the sea, and I must answer 

 your letter before the post goes out, which it does here 

 about half an hour after it comes in. Ever yours very 

 faithfully, T. H. HUXLEY. 



In 1872 Huxley was a 4 ; length enabled to establish 

 in his regular classes a system of science teaching 

 based upon laboratory work by the students, which 

 he had long felt to be the only true method. It 

 involved the verification of every fact by each 

 student, and was a training in scientific method even 

 more than in scientific fact. Had circumstances only 

 permitted, the new epoch in biological teaching 



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