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stantly I thought it hardly worth while. The weather is 

 dismal, cold, rainy, and sour. Huxley has grown tremen- 

 dously in public influence. He is the man of the School 

 Board, though there are other strong men forty-seven 

 and two women. 



Tyndall is arranging to come over next year. Two 

 illustrated lectures on the glaciers, two or three on heat, 

 others on light and electricity. "I want you to take entire 

 charge of me so far as the public is concerned ; my assistant 

 will take charge of the experiments. I will not enslave 

 myself. I will take it just as easy as I have a mind to. I 

 don't want your money, nor will 1 bring away one dollar of 

 it. I will help your scientific institutions with it, but it 

 shall never be said I went to America to line my pockets. 

 I have no reflections to cast upon those Englishmen who 

 have chosen to do this. It may have been right for them, 

 but it won't do for me." 



I have not got hold of the handle of my enterprise yet, 

 but I gather that it promises well. My intention is to make 

 it go at any rate. Bain is all right, and will be helpful. I 

 have this morning had a very interesting interview with 

 Galton. He thinks well of the scheme, and, strange to say, 

 is now writing upon the very subject I had assigned to him. 

 The British Association meets at Edinburgh August 2d. I 

 shall probably stay over till that time, and go from there 

 to Liverpool. Yet the thing I have in hand is large, and, 

 if it goes, will be the thing, and to make it succeed in the 

 fullest manner will rule my movements and my stay. 



The following letters tell their own story : 



LONDON, July 4, 1871. 



MY DEAR YOUMANS : I am anxious to do all that is pos- 

 sible to extend and establish the arrangement you are 

 making with English authors arrangements which prac- 

 tically amount to international copyright. 



