488 LIFE OF PROFESSOR HUXLEY chap, xxx 



And on June 9 : — 



After nine days' meditation (directed exclusively to the 

 Harvey and Hunter question) I am not any " forrarder," as the 

 farmer said after his third bottle of Gladstone claret. So per- 

 haps I had better mention the fact. I am very glad you have 

 limed Flower for " Mammalia " and " Horse " — nobody could 

 be better. 



4 Marlborough Place, N.W. ,_/«/)/ 1, 1879. 



My dear Baynes — On Thursday last I sought for you at 

 the Athenaeum in the middle of the day, and told them to let me 

 know if you came in in the evening when I was there again. 

 But I doubt not you were plunged in dissipation. 



My demonstrator Parker showed me to-day a letter he had 

 received from Black's, asking him to do anything in the small 

 Zoology way between H and L. 



He is a modest man, and so didn't ask what the H L he 



was to do, but he looked it. 



Will you enlighten him or me, and I will convey the in- 

 formation on? 



I had another daughter married yesterday. She was a great 

 pet and it is very hard lines on father and mother. The only 

 consolation is that she has married a right good fellow, John 

 Collier the artist. — Ever yours very faithfully, 



T. H. Huxley. 



July 19, 1879. — Many thanks for your and Mrs. Baynes' 

 congratulations. I am very well content with my son-in-law, 

 and have almost forgiven him for carrying off one of my pets, 

 which shows a Christian spirit hardly to be expected of me. 



South Kensington, /ufy 2, 1880. 



My dear Baynes — I have been thinking over the matter of 

 Instinct, and have come to the conclusion that I dare not under- 

 take anything fresh. 



There is an address at Birmingham in the autumn looming 

 large, and ghosts of unfinished work flitter threateningly. — Ever 

 yours very faithfully, T. H. Huxley. 



