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none of the physiologists would desire you to do so if 

 you feel it a bother. After all, there are plenty of other 

 men to do the writing, and if some of them quote the 

 marked sentences in your letter (which I return), with 

 the statement that you still adhere to them, the chief 

 thing will be done — viz. showing again and emphati- 

 cally on which side you are. 



It is not intended to call the article a ' Symposium.' 

 I only used this word to show that they are to 

 be of the same composite kind as those which the 

 * Nineteenth Century ' previously published under 

 this designation. 



Your letter gives me the first news of your brother's 

 death. I remember very well seeing him one day when 

 I called on you at his house. It must make you very 

 sad, and I am sorry to have written you at such a time. 



I have already sent in a short review of Eoux's 

 book, but should like to see about the bees in ' Kosmos.' 

 I am trying some experiments with bees here on way- 

 finding ; but, contrary to my expectations, I find that 

 most bees, when marked and liberated at one hundred 

 yards from their hive, do not get back for along time. 

 This fact makes it more difficult to test their mode of 

 way-finding, as the faculty (whatever it is) does not 

 seem to be certain. 



Many thanks for sending me the book on Worms 

 so early. As yet I have only had time to look at 

 the table of contents, which seems most interesting. 



Lockyer is staying here just now, and has given 

 me the proofs of his book. It seems to me that he 

 has quite carried the position as to the elements being 

 products of development. 



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