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Animals," he took the opportunity of examining 

 fossils at Forfar, and lectured also at Glasgow ; while 

 at Easter he went to Ireland; on March 15 he was 

 at Dublin, lecturing there on the 25th. 



Reference has already been made (in the letter to 

 C. Darwin of May 6, 1862) to the unsatisfactory 

 state of Huxley's health. He was further crippled 

 by neuralgic rheumatism in his arm and shoulder, 

 and to get rid of this, went on July 1 to Switzerland 

 for a month's holiday. Reaching Grindelwald on the 

 4th, he was joined on the 6th by Dr. Tyndall, and 

 with him rambled on the glacier and made an expedi- 

 tion to the Faulhorn. On the 13th they went to the 

 Rhone glacier, meeting Sir J. Lubbock on their way, 

 at the other side of the Grimsel. Both here and at 

 the Eggischhorn, where they went a few days later, 

 Huxley confined himself to easy expeditions, or, as 

 his notebook has it, stayed "quiet" or "idle," while 

 the hale pair ascended the Galenstock and the 

 Jungfrau. 



By July 28 he was home again in time for an 

 examiners' meeting at the London University the 

 next day, and a viva wee in physiology on the 4th 

 August, before going to Scotland to serve on the 

 Fishery Commission. 



This was the first of the numerous commissions 

 on which he served. With his colleagues, Dr. Lyon 

 Playfair (afterwards Lord Playfair) and Colonel 

 Maxwell, he was busy from August 8 to September 

 16, chiefly on the west coast, taking evidence from 



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