342 GEOEGE JOHN EOMANES 1893 



Looking all the facts in the face, I do not expect 

 ever to see another birthday, 1 and therefore, like Job, 

 am disposed to curse my first one. For I know that 

 all my best work was to have been published in the 

 next ten or fifteen years ; and it is wretched to think 

 of how much labour in the past will thus be wasted. 



However, I do not write to constitute you my 

 confessor, but to thank you for your letter, and 

 also to say that I am sending you a copy of my 

 ' Examination of Weismannism,' just published by 

 Longmans. 



With our united kind regards to Mrs. Dyer and 

 yourself, I remain, yours very sincerely, 



Geo. J. Eomanes. 



To Professor Huxley. 



94 St. Aldate's, Oxford : September 26, 1893. 



My dear Mr. Huxley, — Although grieved to hear 

 that Mrs. Huxley has been so poorly, we sincerely 

 hope that your project of ' gathering up the threads ' 

 of the Weismann question betokens a marked im- 

 provement in your own health, since the kind letter 

 was written which she sent us on your going abroad 

 in July. 



I am sorry to say that your corresponding infer- 

 ence with regard to myself is very wide of the truth. 

 My ' Examination of Weismannism ' was written 

 before my last attack — which, in fact, occurred on 

 the very day when the concluding proofs had been 

 returned to the Clarendon Press. And this attack has 

 been of far too serious a nature to admit of my doing 



1 He did see one more. 



