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The Congress * seems to have gone off excellently. I con- 

 sider that my own performance of the part of dummy was dis- 

 tinguished. 



So the Lawes business is fairly settled at last ! " Lawes 

 Deo," as the Claimant might have said. But the pun will be 

 stale, as you doubtless have already made all possible epigrams 

 and punnigrams on the topic. 



My wife joins with me in the kindest regards to Mrs. Evans 

 and yourself. If Mrs. Evans had only come up to the Maloja, 

 she would have had real winter and no cold. — Ever yours very 

 faithfully, T. H. Huxley. 



10 Southcliff Terrace, Eastbourne, A t ov. 15, 1888. 



My dear Hooker — You would have it that the R.S. broke 

 the law in giving you the Copley, and they certainly violated 

 custom in giving it to me the year following. Who ever heard 

 of two biologers getting it one after another ? It is very pleasant 

 to have our niches in the Pantheon close together. It is getting 

 on for forty years since we were first " acquent," and consider- 

 ing with what a very considerable dose of tenacity, vivacity, 

 and that glorious firmness (which the beasts who don't like us 

 call obstinacy) we are both endowed, the fact that we have never 

 had the shadow of a shade of a quarrel is more to our credit 

 than being ex-Presidents and Copley medallists. 



But we have had a masonic bond in both being well salted 

 in early life. I have always felt I owed a great deal to my 

 acquaintance with the realities of things gained [in] the old 

 Rattlesnake. 



I am getting on pretty well here, though the weather has 

 been mostly bad. All being well I shall attend the meeting of 

 the Society on the 30th, but not the dinner. I am very sorry 

 to miss the latter, but I dare not face the fatigue and the chances 

 of a third dose of pleurisy. 



My wife sends kindest regards and thanks for your con- 

 gratulations. — Ever yours very faithfully, 



T. H. Huxley. 



10 Southcliff Terrace, Eastbourne, Nov. 17, 1888. 

 My dear Flower — . . Many thanks for taking my 

 troublesomeness in good part. My friend will be greatly con- 

 soled to know that you have the poor man " in your eye." 



* The International Geological Congress, at which he was to have 

 presided. 



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