150 LIFE OF PROFESSOR HUXLEY CHAP. V 



4 MARLBOROUGH PLACE, N.W., 

 Nov. 15, 1874. 



MY DEAR MORLEY Many thanks for your abundantly 

 sufficient cheque rather too much, I think, for an article 

 which had been gutted by the newspapers. 



I am always very glad to have anything of mine in 

 the Fortnightly, as it is sure to be in good company ; 

 but I am becoming as spoiled as a maiden with many 

 wooers. However, as far as the Fortnightly which is my 

 old love, and the Contemporary which is my new, are 

 concerned, I hope to remain as constant as a persistent 

 bigamist can be said to be. 



It will give me great pleasure to dine with you, and 

 Dec. 1 will suit me excellently well Ever yours very 

 faithfuUy, T. H. HUXLEY. 



The year winds up with a New Year's greeting to 

 Professor Haeckel. 



4 MARLBOROUGH PLACE, LONDON, N.W., 

 Dec. 28, 1874. 



MY DEAR HAECKEL This must reach you in time to 

 wish you and yours a happy New Year in English 

 fashion. May your shadow never be less, and may 

 all your enemies, unbelieving dogs who resist the Prophet 

 of Evolution, be denied by the sitting of jackasses upon 

 their grandmothers' graves ! an oriental wish appropriate 

 to an ex -traveller in Egypt. 



I have written a notice of the " Anthropogenic " for 

 the Academy, but I am so busy that I am afraid I should 

 never have done it but for being put into a great 

 passion by an article in the Quarterly Review for last 

 July, which I read only a few days ago. My friend 

 Mr. , to whom I had to administer a gentle punish- 

 ment some time ago, has been at the same tricks again, 

 but much worse than his former performance you will 

 see that I have dealt with him as you deal with a 



