108 LIFE OF PROFESSOR HUXLEY CHAP. IV 



No proof of your answer to Forbes' biographer reached 

 me before I left, so I suppose you had not received one in 

 time. I am dying to see it out. 



Hooker is down below, but I take upon myself to send 

 his love. He is in great force now that he has got rid of 

 his Grenoble mulligrubs. Ever yours, 



T. H. HUXLEY. 



After parting company with Hooker, he paid a 

 flying visit to Professor Bonnet at Geneva ; then he 

 was joined by his wife and son for the last three weeks 

 of the holiday, which were spent at Baden and in the 

 Bernese Oberland. Before this, he writes home : 



I feel quite a different man from what I was two 

 months ago, and you will say that you have a much more 

 creditable husband than the broken-down old fellow who 

 has been a heart-ache to you so long, when you see me. 

 The sooner you can get away the better. If the rest 

 only does you as much good as it does me, I shall be 

 very happy. 



AXENSTEIN, LTJZERNE, 

 Aug. 24, 1873. 



MY DEAR TYNDALL The copies of your booklet 1 

 intended for Hooker and me reached me just as I left 

 Baden last Tuesday. Hooker had left me for home a 

 fortnight before, and I hardly know whether to send his 

 to Kew or keep them for him till I return. I have read 

 mine twice, and I think that nothing could be better 

 than the tone you have adopted. I did not suspect that 

 you had such a shot in your locker as the answer to 

 Forbes about the direction of the " crevasses " referred to 

 by Rendu. It is a deadly thrust ; and I shall be curious 

 to see what sort of parry the other side will attempt 



1 " Principal Forbes and his Biographers." 



