204 LIFE OF PROFESSOR HUXLEY CHAP. VIII 



own house. We have had a preliminary canter over the 

 fossils, and I have seen some things which were worth all 

 the journey across. 



This is the most charmingly picturesque town, with 

 the streets lined by avenues of elm trees which meet 

 overhead. I have never seen anything like it, and you 

 must come and look at it There is fossil work enough 

 to occupy me till the end of the week, and I have 

 arranged to go to Springfield on Monday to examine the 

 famous footprints of the Connecticut Valley. 



The Governor has called upon me, and I shall have to 

 go and do pretty-behaved chez lui to-morrow. An appli- 

 cation has come for an autograph, but I have not been 

 interviewed ! 



This immunity, however, did not last long. He 

 appears to have been caught by the interviewer the 

 next day, for he writes on the 1 1th : 



I have not seen the notice in the World you speak of. 

 You will be amused at the article written by the inter- 

 viewer. He was evidently surprised to meet with so little 

 of the " highfalutin " philosopher in me, and says I am 

 "affable" and of "the commercial or mercantile" type. 

 That is something I did not know, and I am rather proud 

 of it We may be rich yet 



As to his work at Yale Museum, he writes in the 

 same letter : 



We are hard at work still Breakfast at 8.30 go 

 over to the Museum with Marsh at 9 or 10 work till 

 1.30 dine go back to Museum to work till 6. Then 

 Marsh takes me for a drive to see the vie\vs about the 

 town, and back to tea about half-past eight He is a 

 wonderfully good fellow, full of fun and stories about his 

 Western adventures, and the collection of fossils is the 



