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LIFE OF PROFESSOR HUXLEY 



CHAP. VI 



chance of being elected; but I am told that these matters are 

 often determined by petty intrigues. 



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Francis * and I looked for you everywhere at the Botanic 

 Gardens, and finding you were too wise to come, came here, 

 grieving your absence, and had an aesthetic " Bier." 



He obtained a remarkably strong set of testimonials 

 from all the leading anatomists and physiologists in the 

 kingdom, as well as one from Milne-Edwards in Paris. 



I have put together (he writes) twelve or fourteen testi- 

 monials from the first men. I will have no other. 



His newly-obtained F.R.S. was a recommendation in 

 itself. So that he writes : — 



* Dr. William Francis, one of the editors of the Philosophical Maga- 

 zine, and a member of the publishing firm of Taylor and Francis. 



