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being made responsible with Sabine, and indeed I think he had 

 Httle enough to do with it. 



You will see a letter from him in this week's Athetusum. — 

 Ever yours faithfully, T. H. Huxley. 



affair was that it absorbed the State aid which might have been given 

 to more valuable researches. 



The Council of the Royal Society had been consulted as to the 

 advisability of despatching this expedition and opposed it, for there 

 were in the service of the Company not a few men admirably qualified 

 for the duty, whose scientific services had received scant appreciation. 

 Nevertheless, the expedition started after all, with the approval of 

 Colonel Sabine, the president. In the last months of 1866, Huxley 

 drew up for the Royal Society a report upon the scientific value of the 

 results of the expedition. 



