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constable who threatened to take him into custody. Ever 

 yours very faithfully, T. H. HUXLEY. 



Warmth and sea-fogs here for a variety. 



One more letter may be given from this time at 

 Bournemouth a letter to his eldest daughter on the 

 loss of her infant son : 



CASALINI, W. BOURNEMOUTH, 

 March 2, 1886. 



It's very sad to lose your child just when he was 

 beginning to bind himself to you, and I don't know that 

 it is much consolation to reflect that the longer he had 

 wound himself up in your heart-strings the worse the 

 tear would have been, which seems to have been inevitable 

 sooner or later. One does not weigh and measure these 

 things while grief is fresh, and in my experience a deep 

 plunge into the waters of sorrow is the hopefullest way of 

 getting through them on to one's daily road of life again. 

 No one can help another very much in these crises of life ; 

 but love and sympathy count for something, and you 

 know, dear child, that you have these in fullest measure 

 from us. 



On coming up to London in April he was very 

 busy, among other things, with a proposal that the 

 Marine Biological Association, of which he was 

 President, should urge the Government to appoint a 

 scientific adviser to the Fishery Board. A letter of 

 his on this subject had appeared in the Times for 

 March 30. There seemed to him, with his practical 

 experience of official work, insuperable objections to 

 the status of such an officer. Above all, he would 

 be a representative of science in name, without any 



