216 LIFE OF PROFESSOR HUXLEY CHAP. XI 



I wondered what had become of you, but the people 

 have come talking about me this last lecture or two, so I 

 supposed you had erupted to Kew. 



My glacier article is out ; tell me what you think of 

 it some day. 



I wrote a civil note to Forbes * yesterday, charging 

 myself with my crime, and I hope that is the end of the 

 business. 



My wife is mending slowly, and if she were here 

 would desire to be remembered to you. 



In December 1858 he became a Fellow of the 

 Linnean, and the following month not only Fellow 

 but Secretary of the Geological Society. 



In 1858 also he was elected to the Athenaeum 

 Club under Kule 2, which provides that the com- 

 mittee shall yearly elect a limited number of persons 

 distinguished in art, science, or letters. His proposer 

 was Sir Roderick Murchison, who wrote : 



ATHEN.EUM, Jan. 26. 



MY DEAR HUXLEY I had a success as to you that I 

 never had or heard of before. Nineteen persons voted, 

 and of these eighteen voted for you and no one against 

 you. You, of course, came in at- the head of the poll ; no 

 other having, i.e. Cobden, more than eleven. Yours well 

 satisfied, ROD. I. MURCHISON. 



From this time forth he corresponded with many 

 foreign men of science; in these years particularly 

 with Victor Cams, Lacaze Duthiers, Kolliker, and 

 de Quatrefages, in reference to their common interest 

 in the study of the invertebrates. 



1 Principal James Forbes, with whose theory of glaciers Huxley 

 and Tyndall disagreed. 



