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Whether it is matrimony or whether it is middle age I don't 

 know, but as time goes on you can combine both. 



I cannot but accept your kind offer to send me Fanny 

 Lewald's works, though it is a shame to rob you of them. In 

 return my wife insists on your studying a copy of Tennyson, 

 which we shall send you as soon as we return to civilisation, 

 which will be next Friday. If you are in London after that date 

 we shall hope to see you once more before you return to the 

 bosom of the " Fatherland." 



I did my best to give the children your message, but I fear I 

 failed ignominiously in giving the proper bovine vocalisation to 

 " Mroo." 



That small curly-headed boy Harry, struck, I suppose by the 

 kindness you both show to children, has effected a synthesis 

 between you and Tyndall, and gravely observed the other day, 

 " Doctor Dohrn-Tyndall do say Mroo." 



My wife . . . sends her kind regards. The " seven " are not 

 here or they would vote love by acclamation. — Ever yours very 

 faithfully, T. H. Huxley. 



He did not this year attend the British Association, 

 which was held in Dundee. This was the first occasion on 

 which an evening was devoted to a working men's lecture, 

 a step important as tending towards his own ideal of what 

 science should be : — not the province of the few, but the 

 possession of the many. 



This first lecture was delivered by Professor Tyndall, 

 who wrote him an account of the meeting, and in particular 

 of his reconciliation with Professors Thomson (Lord Kel- 

 vin) and Tait, with whom he had had a somewhat embit- 

 tered controversy. 



In his reply, Huxley writes : — 



To J. Tyndall 



Thanks also for a copy of the Dundee Advertiser containing 

 your lecture. It seemed to me that the report must be a very 

 good one, and the lecture reads exceedingly well. You have 

 inaugurated the working men's lectures of the Association in a 

 way that cannot be improved. And it was worth the trouble, 

 for I suspect they will become a great and noble feature in the 

 meetings. 



