This is the most charmingly picturesque town, with the streets lined by avenues of elm trees which meet overhead.  I have never seen anything like it, and you must come and look at it.  There is fossil work enough to occupy me till the end of the week, and I have arranged to go to Springfield on Monday to examine the famous footprints of the Connecticut Valley.

The Governor has called upon me, and I shall have to go and do pretty-behaved chez lui to-morrow.  An application has come for an autograph, but I have not been interviewed!

[This immunity, however, did not last long.  He appears to have been caught by the interviewer the next day, for he writes on the 11th:—­]

I have not seen the notice in the “World” you speak of.  You will be amused at the article written by the interviewer.  He was evidently surprised to meet with so little of the “high falutin” philosopher in me, and says I am “affable” and of “the commercial or mercantile” type.  That is something I did not know, and I am rather proud of it.  We may be rich yet.

[As to his work at Yale Museum, he writes in the same letter:—­]

We are hard at work still.  Breakfast at 8.30—­go over to the Museum with Marsh at 9 or 10—­work till 1.30—­dine—­go back to Museum to work till 6.  Then Marsh takes me for a drive to see the views about the town, and back to tea about half-past eight.  He is a wonderfully good fellow, full of fun and stories about his Western adventures, and the collection of fossils is the most wonderful thing I ever saw.  I wish I could spare three weeks instead of one to study it.

To-morrow evening were are to have a dinner by way of winding up, and he has asked a lot of notables to meet me.  I assure you I am being “made of,” as I thought nobody but the little wife was foolish enough to do.

[On the 16th he left to join Professor Alexander Agassiz at Newport, whence he wrote the following letters:—­]

Newport, August 17, 1876.

My dear Marsh,

I really cannot say how much I enjoyed my visit to New Haven.  My recollections are sorting themselves out by degrees and I find how rich my store is.  The more I think of it the more clear it is that your great work is the settlement of the pedigree of the horse.

My wife joins with me in kind regards.  I am yours very faithfully,

T.H.  Huxley.

[To Mr. Clarence King.]

Newport, August 19, 1876.

My dear Sir,

In accordance with your wish, I very willingly put into writing the substance of the opinion as to the importance of Professor Marsh’s collection of fossils which I expressed to you yesterday.  As you are aware, I devoted four or five days to the examination of this collection, and was enabled by Professor Marsh’s kindness to obtain a fair conception of the whole.