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two plates to the most pestiferous corner of the laboratory 

 of the Royal Institution. I am very glad you will 

 undertake the job, and feel that I have a proper New 

 Year's gift 



By the way, you ought to have had Hume ere this. 

 Macmillan sent me two or three copies, just to keep his 

 word, on Christmas Day, and I thought I should have 

 a lot more at once. 



But there is no sign not even an advertisement 

 and I don't know what has become of the edition. 

 Perhaps the bishops have bought it up. With all good 

 wishes, Ever yours, T. H. HUXLEY. 



Two letters both to Tyndall show his solicitude 

 for his friends. The one speaks of a last and un- 

 availing attempt made by W. K. Clifford's friends 

 to save his life by sending him on a voyage (he died 

 not long after at Madeira) ; the other urges Tyndall 

 himself to be careful of his health. 



4 MARLBOROUGH PLACE, 

 April 2, 1878. 



MY DEAR TYNDALL We had a sort of council about 

 Clifford at Clark's house yesterday morning H. Thomp- 

 son, Corfield, Payne, Pollock, and myself, and I am sure 

 you will be glad to hear the result. 



From the full statement of the nature of his case 

 made by Clark and Corfield, it appears that though 

 grave enough in all conscience, it is not so bad as it 

 might be, and that there is a chance, I might almost say 

 a fair chance, for him yet It appears that the lung 

 mischief has never gone so far as the formation of a 

 cavity, and that it is at present quiescent, and no other 

 organic disease is discoverable. The alarming symptom 

 is a general prostration very sadly obvious when he was 

 with us on Sunday which, as I understand, rather 



