1878 VISIT FROM PROFESSOR MARSH 249 



just reached me, as I have been away since Saturday 

 with my wife and sick daughter who are at the seaside. 

 A great deal has happened to us in the last six or seven 

 weeks. My eldest daughter married, and then a week 

 after an invasion of diphtheria, which struck down my 

 eldest son, my youngest daughter, and my eldest remaining 

 daughter all together. Two of the cases were light, but 

 my poor Madge suffered terribly, and for some ten days 

 we were in sickening anxiety about her. She is slowly 

 gaining strength now, and I hope there is no more cause 

 for alarm but my household is all to pieces the Lares 

 and Penates gone, and painters and disinfectors in their 

 places. 



You will certainly have to run down to Margate and 

 see my wife or never expect forgiveness in this world. 



I shall be at the Science Schools, South Kensington, 

 to-morrow till four and if I do not see you before that 

 time I shall come and look you up at the Palace Hotel 

 I am, yours very faithfully, T. H. HUXLEY. 



" Is it not provoking," he writes to his wife, " that 

 we should all be dislocated when I should have been 

 so glad to show him a little attention ? " Still, apart 

 from this week-end at the seaside, Professor Marsh 

 was not entirely neglected. He writes in his Recol- 

 lections (p. 6) : 



How kind Huxley was to every one who could claim 

 his friendship, I have good cause to know. Of the many 

 instances which occur to me, one will suffice. One evening 

 in London at a grand annual reception of the Eoyal 

 Academy, where celebrities of every rank were present, 

 Huxley said to me, " When I was in America, you showed 

 me every extinct animal that 1 had read about, or even 

 dreamt of. Now, if there is a single living lion in all 

 Great Britain that you wish to see, I will show him to 



