436 LIFE OF PROFESSOR HUXLEY CHAP. XXII 



eagerly looking forward " to stimulating walks over 

 stock and stone, to Tennyson, Herbert Spencer, and 

 Harry's ringing laugh." 



The latter half of the month he spent at or near 

 Dublin, serving upon the Commission on Science and 

 Art Instruction : 



To-day (he writes on September 16), we shall be 

 occupied in inspecting the School of Science and the 

 Glasnevin botanical and agricultural gardens, and to- 

 morrow we begin the session work of examining all the 

 Irishry who want jobs perpetrated. It is weary work, 

 and the papers are already beginning to tell lies about us 

 and attack us. 



The rest of the year he remained in London, 

 except the last four days of December, when he was 

 lecturing at Newcastle, and stayed with Sir W. Arm- 

 strong at Jesmond. 



To PROFESSOR HAECKEL 



Jan. 21, 1868. 



Don't you think we did a right thing in awarding the 

 Copley Medal to Baer last year ? The old man was 

 much pleased, and it was a comfort to me to think that 

 we had not let him go to his grave without the highest 

 honour we had to bestow. 



I am over head and ears, as we say, in work, lecturing, 

 giving addresses to the working men and (figurez vous !) 

 to the clergy. 1 



1 On December 12, 1867, there was a meeting of clergy at Sion 

 College, upon the invitation and under the presidency of Dean 

 Farrar and the Rev. W. Rogers of Bishopsgate, when the bearing 

 of recent science upon orthodox dogma was discussed. First 



