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the worms any better than he did the zoophytes, he won't 

 interfere with my plans. 



I shall be glad to see Mrs. Buckland's Echinoderin. 

 I think it must be a novelty by what you say. She is a 

 very jolly person, but I have an unutterable fear of 

 scientific women. Ever yours, T. H. HUXLEY. 



May 6, 1855. 



My ship is not come home but is coming, and I have 

 been in a state of desperation at the continuous east 

 winds. However, to-day there is a westerly gale, and if 

 it lasts I shall have news soon. You may imagine that I 

 am in an unsatisfactory state of mind between this and 

 lecturing five times a week. 



I beg to say that the "goods" I expect are home 

 produce transplanted (or sent a voyage as you do Madeira), 

 and not foreign growth by any means. But it is five 

 years since we met, I am another man altogether, and if 

 my wife be as much altered, we shall need a new intro- 

 duction. Correspondence, however active, is a poor 

 substitute for personal communication and tells one but 

 little of the inner life. 



Finally, on the eve of his marriage in July, Tyndall 

 congratulates him on being appointed to deliver 

 the next course of Fullerian Lectures at the Royal 

 Institution : 



The fates once seemed to point to our connection in a 

 distant land : we are now colleagues at home, and I can 

 claim you as my scientific brother. May the gods 

 continue to drop fatness upon you, and may your next 

 great step be productive of all the felicity which your 

 warmest friends or your own rebellious heart can desire. 



