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Misrepresentation, whose roots were in animus 

 rather than in ignorance, went on, and as late as 1890 

 Mr, Mallock revived the " Bathybius myth" in the 

 Nineteenth Century, upon which Huxley commented, 

 with warrantable irritation : — 



Bathybius is far too convenient a stick to beat this 

 dog with to be ever given up, however many lies may 

 be needful to make the weapon effectual. I told the 

 whole story in my reply to the Duke of Argyll, but 

 of course the pack give tongue just as loudly as ever. 

 Clerically-minded people cannot be accurate, even the 

 liberals. 1 



In 1876 he paid a long-cherished visit to America. 

 The newspapers, confusing him with Tyndall, recently 

 married to a daughter of the aristocratic house of 

 Hamilton, reported that he was bringing with him his 

 " titled bride," who, needless to say, had long been 

 the joyful mother of many children. The trip inter- 

 ested and invigorated him ; his progress from place to 

 place was almost royal. But that with which his 

 hosts thought to impress him most impressed him 

 least. Their energy won his admiration ; watching 

 the mass of moving craft in New York harbour, he 

 said, " If I were not a man, I think I should like to 

 be a tug." But, in his lecture before the Johns Hop- 

 kins University at Baltimore, he said : 



1 II. 160. 



