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tug-boats seemed to attract him as they tore fiercely up 

 and down and across the bay. He looked long at them 

 and finally said, " If I were not a man I think I should 

 like to be a tug." They seemed to him the condensation 

 and complete expression of the energy and force in which 

 he delighted. 



The personal welcome he received from the friends 

 he visited was of the warmest. On the arrival of 

 the Germanic the travellers were met by Mr. Appleton 

 the publisher, and carried off to his country house 

 at Eiverdale. While his wife was taken to Saratoga 

 to see what an American summer resort was like, he 

 himself went on the 9th to New Haven, to inspect the 

 fossils at Yale College, collected from the Tertiary 

 deposits of the Far West by Professor Marsh, with 

 great labour and sometimes at the risk of his scalp. 

 Professor Marsh told me how he took him to the 

 University, and proposed to begin by showing him 

 over the buildings. He refused. "Show me what 

 you have got inside them ; I can see plenty of bricks 

 and mortar in my own country." So they went 

 straight to the fossils, and as Professor Marsh 

 writes : l 



One of Huxley's lectures in New York was to be on 

 the genealogy of the horse, a subject which he had already 

 written about, based entirely upon European specimens. 

 My own explorations had led me to conclusions quite 

 different from his, and my specimens seemed to me to 

 prove conclusively that the horse originated in the New 

 World and not in the Old, and that its genealogy must 



1 American Journal of Science, vol. 1. August 1895. 



