l68 LIFE OF PROFESSOR HUXLEY chap, xii 



Can't you come up this way as you go to Aberdeen? — Ever 

 yours faithfully, T. H. Huxley. 



PS. — I thought I might mention the Jermyn Street matter 

 to Faraday privately, and did so. He seemed pleased that the 

 offer had been made. 



The acceptance of the lectureship at the School of Mines 

 brought Tyndall into the closest contact with Huxley for 

 the next nine years, until he resigned his lectureship in 1868 

 on succeeding Faraday as superintendent of the Royal In- 

 stitution. 



On September 17 he writes : — 



Yesterday Owen and I foregathered in Section D. He read 

 a very good and important paper, and I got up afterwards and 

 spoke exactly as I thought about it, and praising many parts 

 of it strongly. In his reply he was unco civil and compli- 

 mentary, so that the people who had come in hopes of a row 

 were (as I intended they should be) disappointed. 



A number of miscellaneous letters of tftis period are here 

 grouped together. 



14 Waverley Place, ya«. 30, 1858. 



My dear Hooker — ... I wish you wouldn't be apologetic 

 about criticism from people who have a right to criticise. I 

 always look upon any criticism as a compliment, not but what 

 the old Adam in T. H. H. will arise and fight vigorously against 

 all impugnment, and irrespective of all odds in the way of au- 

 thority, but that is the way of the beast. 



Why I value your and Tyndall's and Darwin's friendship so 

 much is, among other things, that you all pitch into me when 

 necessary. You may depend upon it, however blue I may look 

 when in the wrong, it's wrath with myself and nobody else. 



To HIS Sister 

 The Government School of Mikes, Jermyn St., 

 March 27, 1858. 



My dearest Lizzie — It is a month since your very welcome 

 letter reached me. I had every inclination and every intention 

 to answer it at once, but the wear and tear of incessant occupa- 

 tion (for your letter arrived in the midst of my busiest time) 

 has, I will not say deprived me of the leisure, but of that tone 

 of mind which one wants for writing a long letter. I fully 



