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Contribute something to the fund which is being raised 

 for their benefit, and I shall consider it as the most 

 agreeable present you could possibly make to me. 



And if you wish me to have a personal memento of 

 our friend, send me a pipe that belonged to him. I am 

 greatly devoted to tobacco, and will put it in a place of 

 honour in my battery of pipes. 



The bracing effects of Arolla enabled him to stay 

 two months in town before again retiring to Ilkley 

 to be "screwed up." He had on the stocks his 

 Gentian Paper and the chapter for the Darwin Life, 

 besides the chapter on the Progress of Science for the 

 Reign of Queen Victoria, all of which he finished off this 

 autumn ; he was busy with Technical Education, and 

 the Egyptian borings which were being carried out 

 under the superintendence of the Eoyal Society. 

 Finally he was induced by a " diabolical plot " on the 

 part of Mr. Spencer to read, and in consequence to 

 answer, an article in the Fortnightly for November 

 by Mr. Lilly on " Materialism and Morality." These 

 are the chief points with which the following corre- 

 spondence is concerned. 



4 MARLBOROTJGH PLACE, 

 Sept. 16, 1886. 



MY DEAR FOSTER I enclose the Eeport : and have 

 nothing to suggest except a quibble at p. 4. If you take 

 a stick in your hand you may feel lots of things and 

 determine their form, etc., with the other end of it, but 

 surely the stick is properly said to be insensible. D. 



1 The Annual Report of the Examiners in Physiology under 

 the Science and Art Department, which, being still an Examiner 

 he had to sign. 



