I can, however, quite understand how much your time must be occupied with the never-ending, always-beginning editorial cares.
I keep much as usual, and crawl on with my work.
LETTER 238.

TO J.D.HOOKER.

Down, September 27th [1870].
Yours was a splendid letter, and I was very curious to hear something about the Liverpool meeting (238/1.

Mr.Huxley was President of the British Association at Liverpool in 1870.

His Presidential Address on "Biogenesis and Abiogenesis" is reprinted in his collected Essays, VIII., page 229.