The total absence of any allusion to Tyndall's labours, even when comets are his theme, seems strange to me.") Haredene, Albury, Guildford, August 6th [1871].
I have read with greatest interest Thomson's address; but you say so EXACTLY AND FULLY all that I think, that you have taken all the words from my mouth; even about Tyndall.

It is a gain that so wonderful a man, though no naturalist, should become a convert to evolution; Huxley, it seems, remarked in his speech to this effect.

I should like to know what he means about design,--I cannot in the least understand, for I presume he does not believe in special interpositions.

(243/2.

See "British Association Report," page cv.