I wondered what had become of you, but the people have come talking
about me this last lecture or two, so I supposed you had erupted to Kew.

My glacier article is out; tell me what you think of it some day.

I wrote a civil note to Forbes yesterday, charging myself with my crime,
and I hope that is the end of the business. [Principal James Forbes,
with whose theory of glaciers Huxley and Tyndall disagreed.]

My wife is mending slowly, and if she were here would desire to be
remembered to you.

[In December 1858 he became a Fellow of the Linnean, and the following
month not only Fellow but Secretary of the Geological Society.

In 1858 also he was elected to the Athenaeum Club under Rule 2, which
provides that the committee shall yearly elect a limited number of
persons distinguished in art, science, or letters. His proposer was Sir
R. Murchison, who wrote:--

Athenaeum, January 26.

My dear Huxley,

I had a success as to you that I never had or heard of before. Nineteen
persons voted, and of these eighteen voted for you and no one against
you. You, of course, came in at the head of the poll; no other having,
i.e. Cobden, more than eleven.

Yours well satisfied,