90 LIFE OF PROFESSOR HUXLEY CHAP. Ill 



dyspepsia and concurrent hypochondriacal incapacity 

 At last, I could not stand it any longer, and came home 

 for " change of air," leaving the wife and chicks to follow 

 next week. By dint of living on cocoa and Revalenta, 

 and giving up drink, tobacco, and all other things that 

 make existence pleasant, I am getting better. 



What was your motive in getting kicked by a horse ? 

 I stopped away from the Association without that ; and 

 am not sorry to have been out of the way of the X. 



business. What is to become of the association if 



is to monopolise it ? And then there was that scoundrel, 

 Louis Napoleon to whom no honest man ought to 

 speak gracing the scene. I am right glad I was out 

 of it 



I am at my wits' end to suggest a lecturer for you. 

 I wish I could offer myself, but I have refused everything 

 of that sort on the score of health ; and moreover, I am 

 afraid of my wife ! 



What do you say to Ramsay ? He lectures very well 

 I have done nothing whatever to the Primer. Stewart 

 sent me Geikie's letter this morning, and I have asked 

 Macmillan to send Geikie the proofs of my Primer so far 

 as they go. We must not overlap more than can be 

 helped. 



I have not seen Hooker yet since my return. While 

 all this row has been going on, I could not ask him to do 

 anything for us. And until X. is dead and d d (officially 

 at any rate), I am afraid there will be little peace for 

 him. Ever yours very faithfully, T. H. HUXLEY. 



Please remember me very kindly to Mrs. Roscoe. 



In a letter of September 25 is a reference to the 

 way in which his increasing family had outgrown his 

 house in Abbey Place. Early in the preceding year, 

 he had come to the decision to buy a small house in 



