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way such portion of it as is of my sending has been 

 conquered by mine own sword and spear, and the rest 

 came from Mary. 1 . . . 



[After giving a summary of his struggle with the 

 Admiralty, he proceeds] If I were to tell you all the 

 intriguing and humbug there has been about my un- 

 fortunate grant which is not yet granted it would 

 occupy this letter, and though a very good illustration of 

 the encouragement afforded to Science in this country, 

 would not be very amusing. Once or twice it has 

 fairly died out, only to be stirred up again by my own 

 pertinacity. However, I have hopes of it at last, as I 

 hear Lord Rosse is just about to make another application 

 to the present Government on the subject. While this 

 business has been dragging on of course I have not been 

 idle. I have four memoirs (on various matters in 

 Comparative Anatomy) in the Philosophical Transaction, 

 and they have given me their Fellowship and one of the 

 Royal medals. I have written a whole lot of things 

 for the journals reviews for the British and Foreign 

 Quarterly Medical, etc. I am one of the editors of 

 Taylor's Scientific Memoirs (German scientific translations). 

 In conjunction with my friend Busk I am translating a 

 great German book on the Microscopical Anatomy of Man, 

 and I have engaged to write a long article for Todd's 2 

 Cyclopaedia. Besides this, have read two long memoirs 

 at the British Association, and have given two lectures at 

 the Royal Institution one of them only two days ago, 

 when I was so ill with influenza I could hardly stand or 

 speak. 



Furthermore, I have been a candidate for a Professor- 

 ship of Natural History at Toronto (which is not even 



1 Mrs. George Huxley. 



2 Robert Bentley Todd, 1809-1860, a popular practitioner and 

 professor of Anatomy and Physiology at King's College, London, 

 1836-53. His Cyclopaedia of Anatomy and Physiology was pub- 

 lished between 1835 and 1859. 



