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and the expense would be less than the proposed 

 compensation tax. 



The chief part of the summer vacation Huxley 

 spent at Lynton, on the north coast of Devonshire. 

 "The Happy Family," he writes to Dr. Dohrn, "has 

 been spending its vacation in this pretty place, 

 eighteen miles of up hill and down dale from any 

 railway." It was a country made for the long 

 rambles he delighted in after the morning's due 

 allowance of writing. And although he generally 

 preferred complete quiet on his holidays, with 

 perfect freedom from all social exigencies, these 

 weeks of rest were rendered all the pleasanter by the 

 unstudied and unexacting friendliness of the family 

 party which centred around Mr. and Mrs. F. Bailey 

 of Lee Abbey hard by Lady Tenterden, the Julius 

 and the Henry Pollocks, the latter old friends of ours. 



Though his holiday was curtailed at either end, 

 he was greatly set up by it, and writes to chaff his 

 son-in-law for taking too little rest 



I was glad to hear that F. had stood his fortnight's 

 holiday so well ; three weeks might have knocked him up ! 



On the same day, September 26, he wrote the 

 letter to Dr. Dohrn, mentioned above, answering two 

 inquiries one as to arrangements for exhibiting at 

 the Fisheries Exhibition to be held in London the 

 following year, the other as to whether England 

 would follow the example of Germany and Italy in 

 sending naval officers to the Zoological Station at 



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