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E. Getting heaps of remains of new Labyrinthodonts from 

 the Glasgow coalfield, which have to be described. 



F. Working at a memoir on Glyptodon based on a new and 

 almost entire specimen at the College of Surgeons. 



G. Preparing a new decade upon Fossil fishes for this place. 



H. Knowing that I ought to have written long ago a de- 

 scription of a most interesting lot of Indian fossils sent to me 

 by Oldham. 



I. Being blown up by Hooker for doing nothing for the 

 Natural History Review. 



K. Being bothered by sundry editors just to write articles 

 " which you know you can knock off in a moment." 



L. Consciousness of having left unwritten letters which 

 ought to have been written long ago, especially to C. Darwin. 



M. General worry and botheration. Ten or twelve people 

 taking up my time all day about their own affairs. 



N. O. P. Q. R. S. T. U. V. W. X. Y. Z. 



Societies. 



Clubs. 



Dinners, evening parties, and all the apparatus for wasting 

 time called " Society." Colensoism and botheration about 

 Moses. . . . Finally pestered to death in public and private be- 

 cause I am supposed to be what they call a " Darwinian." 



If that is not enough, I could exhaust the Greek alphabet 

 for heads in addition. 



I am glad to hear that Wyman thinks well of my book, as 

 he is very competent to judge. I hear it is republished in 

 America, but I suppose I shall get nothing out of it.* 



An undated letter to Kingsley, who had suggested that 

 he should write an article on Prayer, belongs probably to 

 the autumn of 1863 : — 



I should like very much to write such an article as you sug- 

 gest, but I am very doubtful about undertaking it for Fraser. 

 Anything I could say would go to the root of praying altogether, 

 for inasmuch as the whole universe is governed, so far as I 

 can see, in the same way, and the moral world is as much gov- 

 erned by laws as the physical — whatever militates against asking 

 for one sort of blessing seems to me to tell with the same force 

 against asking for any other. 



* In this expectation, however, he was agreeably disappointed by 

 the action of D. Appleton and Company, as is told on page 305. 



