1872 LETTER TO TYNDALL 85 



health, making a point of carrying them out him- 

 self. 



26 ABBEY PLACE, Jime 4, 1872. 



MY DEAR TYNDALL I must be at work on examination 

 papers all day to-day, but to-morrow I am good to lunch 

 with you (and abscond from the Royal Commission, 

 which will get on very well without me) or to go with 

 you and call on your friends, whichever may be most 

 convenient. 



Many thanks for all your kind and good advice about 

 the lectures, but I really think they will not be too 

 much for me, and it is of the utmost importance I should 

 carry them on. 



They are the commencement of a new system of 

 teaching which, if I mistake not, will grow into a big 

 thing and bear great fruit, and just at this present 

 moment (nobody is necessary very long) I am the necessary 

 man to carry it on. I could not get a suppleant if I 

 would, and you are no more the man than I am to let a 

 pet scheme fall through for the fear of a little risk of self. 

 And really and truly I find that by taking care I pull 

 along very well Moreover, it isn't my brains that get 

 wrong, but only my confounded stomach. 



I have read your memorial J which is very strong and 

 striking, but a difficulty occurs to me about a good deal 

 of it, and that is that ih won't do to quote Hooker's 

 official letters before they have been called for in Parlia- 

 ment, or otherwise made public. We should find our- 

 selves in the wrong officially, I am afraid, by doing so. 

 However we can discuss this when we meet. I will be 

 at the Athenaeum at 4 o'clock. Ever yours faithfully, 



T. H. HUXLEY. 



As for the teaching by "types," which was the 

 most salient feature of his methofl, and therefore the 

 1 In the affair of Dr. Hooker already referred to, p. 80. 



