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and when told, said, " Well, but what's the use of a 

 hundred a year to him ? " I suppose he paid his butler 

 that. 



A further attempt to organise scientific work 

 throughout the country and make its results gener- 

 ally known, dates from this time. Huxley, Hooker, 

 and Tyndall had discussed, early in 1858, the possi- 

 bility of starting a Scientific Review, which should do 

 for science what the Quarterly or the Westminster did 

 for literature. The scheme was found not to be 

 feasible at the time, though it was revived in another 

 form in 1860; so in the meanwhile it was arranged 

 that science should be laid before the public every 

 fortnight, through the medium of a scientific column 

 in the Saturday Review. The following letter bears 

 on this proposal : 



April 20, 1858. 



MY DEAR HOOKER Before the dawn of the proposal 

 for the ever-memorable though not-to-be Scientific Review, 

 there had been some talk of one or two of us working 

 the public up for science through the Saturday Review. 

 Maskelyne l (you know him, I suppose) was the suggester 

 of the scheme, and undertook to talk to the Saturday 

 people about it. 



I thought the whole affair had dropped through, but 

 yesterday Maskelyne came to me and to Ramsay with 

 definite propositions from the Saturday editor. 



He undertakes to put in a scientific article in the 

 intermediate part between Leaders and Reviews once a 

 fortnight if we will supply him. He is not to mutilate 

 or to alter, but to take what he gets and be thankful. 



1 M. H. Neville Story Maskelyne, F.E.S., Professor of Mineralogy 

 at Oxford, 1856-1895. 



