2i8 THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY 



thai race is so immensely ancient that, were our know- 

 ledge complete, it would be possible to connect the type 

 with existing Aryans by a series of imperceptible grada- 

 tions. 



Had not Huxley's health compelled the abandonment 

 of scientific research, large and important additions would 

 have been made to the enormous mass actually published. 

 An account of his unfinished work is given in Appendix 

 I. to his Life and Letters, as drawn up by the late Prof. 

 G. B. Howes after examination of the drawings and 

 manuscript papers which form part of the Library pre- 

 sented to the Royal College of Science. 



1891. 



A legacy, in the form of a small estate at Worthing, 

 from Mr. Anthony Rich, the antiquarian, afforded the 

 means of buying a piece of ground adjacent to Hodeslea, 

 thus contributing greatly to the happiness of Huxley's 

 remaining years, by enabling him to gratify a newly- 

 discovered taste for gardening. In a letter to Hooker 

 (dated July 3, 1 891), for example, we read : " I find nailing 

 up creepers a delightful occupation " (Life, ii, p. 287). 



And in a letter to the late Prof. T. J. Parker (dated 

 August If, 1891), he says : — 



" .... I begin to think with Candide that ' cultivons notre 

 jardin' comprises the whole duty of man" (Life, ii, p. 289). 



Most of the year was spent in Eastbourne, but in 

 September he and his wife visited the Wye valley and 

 Llangollen, returning by way of Chester, for the purpose 

 of seeing Old Huxley Hall, the original home of the 

 family. An opportunity was also taken of renewing the 

 memories of youth, by including Coventry in the itinerary 



