450 LIFE OF PROFESSOR HUXLEY CHAP. XVIII 



which is of no use to any but specialists. I am convinced 

 that this is the only plan by which the wants of ordinary 

 people can be supplied efficiently, while ample room is 

 afforded for additions to any extent without large expense 

 in building. 



On the present plan or no plan, Museums are built at 

 great cost, and in a few years are choked for want of 

 room. 



If you have the opportunity, I wish you would ex- 

 plain that I gave no opinion as to what might or might 

 not be expedient under present circumstances at Cam- 

 bridge. I do not want to seem meddlesome. Ever yours 

 very faithfully, T. EL HUXLEY. 



Don't forget Cayley. 



N.B. As my meaning seems to have been misunder- 

 stood, I wish, if you have the chance, you would make it 

 clear that I do not want three brick and mortar museums 

 but one public museum containing a threefold col- 

 lection of typical forms, a biological Trinity in Unity in 

 fact. 



It might conciliate the clerics if you adopted this 

 illustration. But as your own, mind. I should not like 

 them to think me capable of it. 



However, even Ilkley was not an infallible cure. 

 Thus he writes to Sir M. Foster : 



May 17. I am ashamed of myself for not going to 

 town to attend the Gov. Grant Committee and Council, 

 but I find I had better stop here till the end of the 

 month, when I must return for a while anyhow. 



I have improved very much here, and so long as I 

 take heaps of exercise every day I have nothing to com- 

 plain of beyond a fit of blue devils when I wake in the 

 morning. 



But I don't want to do any manner of work, still less 



