182 LIFE OF PROFESSOR HUXLEY CHAP. VII 



I see that has been blowing the trumpet at the 



Medical Association. He has about as much tact as a 

 flyblown bull. 



I have just had a long letter from Wyville Thomson. 

 The Challenger inclines to think that Bathybius is a 

 mineral precipitate ! in which case some enemy will 

 probably say that it is a product of my precipitation. 

 So mind, I was the first to make that "goak." Old 

 Ehrenberg suggested something of the kind to me, but I 

 have not his letter here. I shall eat my leek handsomely, 

 if any eating has to be done. They have found pseudo- 

 podia in Globigerina. 



With all good wishes from ours to yours Ever yours 

 faithfully, T. H. HUXLEY. 



CRAGSIDE, MORPETH, August 13, 1875. 



MY DEAR TYNDALL I find that in the midst of my work 

 in Edinburgh I omitted to write to De Vrij, so I have 

 just sent him a letter expressing my pleasure in being 

 able to co-operate in any plan for doing honour to old 

 Benedict, 1 for whom I have a most especial respect. 



I am not sure that I won't write something about him 

 to stir up the Philistines. 



My work at Edinburgh got itself done very satisfactorily, 

 and I cleared about 1000 by the transaction, being one 

 of the few examples known of a Southern coming north 

 and pillaging the Scots. However, I was not sorry when 

 it was all over, as I had been hard at work since October 

 and began to get tired. 



The wife and babies from the south, and I from the 

 north, met here a fortnight ago and we have been idling 

 very pleasantly ever since. The place is very pretty and 

 our host kindness itself. Miss Matthaei and five of the 

 bairns are at Cartington a moorland farmhouse three miles 

 off and in point of rosy cheeks and appetites might com- 



1 Spinoza, a memorial to whom was being raised in Holland. 



