1875 LETTERS TO BAYNES 189 



swear by your gods (0 1 3 1 or any greater number 

 as the case may be) that I shall have a proof swiftly and 

 not be kept waiting for weeks till the whole thing has 

 got cold, and I am at something else a hundred miles 

 away from Biology ? 



If not I will keep the MS. till it is all done, and you 

 know what that means. Ever yours very truly, 



T. H. HUXLEY. 



CRAGS IDE, MORPETH, 

 Aug. 12, 1875. 



MY DEAR BAYNES The remainder of the proof of 

 " Biology" is posted to-day " Praise de Lor'." 



I have a dim recollection of having been led by your 

 soft and insinuating ways to say that I would think 

 (only think) about some other article. What the deuce 

 was it ? 



I have told the Royal Society people to send you a 

 list of Fellows, addressed to Black's. 



We have had here what may be called bad weather 

 for England, but it has been far better than the best 

 Edinburgh weather known to my experience. 



All my friends are out committing grouse-murder. 

 As a vivisection Commissioner I did not think I could 

 properly accompany them. Ever yours very faithfully, 



T. H. HUXLEY. 



CRAGSIDE, MORPETH, 

 Aug. 24, 1875. 



MY DEAR BAYNES I think - is like enough to 

 do the " Ccclenterata " well if you can make sure of his 

 doing it at all. He is a man of really great knowledge 

 of the literature of Zoology, and if it had not been for 

 the accident of being a procrastinating impracticable ass, 

 he could have been a distinguished man. But he is a 

 sort of Balaam-Centaur with the asinine stronger- than 

 the prophetic moiety. 



