The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-08-31
A Genuine Interview with the Newly
Arrived Scientist.
New York World.l


A World reporter found Professor
Huxley enjoying the hospitalities of a
friend and professional confrere in pleas
ant apartments not far from the Fifth
avenue. In appearance Mr.. Huxley
keeps pace with his years, seeming
neither more nor less than his actual age
-ffty-one. He is of the medium height,
compactly b lilt, with very dark COM
plexion, sma black eyes, dark hair and
side-whis ers, tinged with gray. la
manner he is affable, good-humOred, and
exceedingly unpretenLiOus, seeming
rather type of the mercantile or COM
mercial class than one of the "persons
of that trinity which with Darwin and
Tyndall constitutes the source and foun-
tain-head of the modern philosophy
founded on scientific research. 1t was a
novel experience, he said, to be hunted
to ,ver and subjected to the tender
mercies of an interviewer. He had been
dodging industriously hither and thither
striving with all his might to remain
hidden. BY what instinct" he asked
gazing earnestly at the reporter, as
though detecting some novel and hither-
to urheard-of phase of animal intelli-
gence "by what instinct did you know
my hiding-place?' The reporter ex-
plaircd apolOgetically that the requile-
ments of American Journalism include
features not yet fashionable on the other
side OF the Atlantic, and, by way o.
practical illustration, inquiied: What
is your impression of New York ?"
81 am not prepared to give an opinion
yet" said The Professor, laughing. "At
tirst So ut Of the city as the steamer came
up the bay, | was struck with the charac-
ter of the towering buildings; in the
European ports there are forts and walls
looming up at you; here the most notice
able structures were described to me as a
newspaper Office and telegraph build
ing. IL seemed to me to be feature
characteristic Of the whole country"
Had Mr.. Huxley been much about the
Not yet, in consequence of the heat,
But was astonished at the hustle of
Broadway, and at the varietyit presents.
The frequent paint and gliding remind
one of Paris, and you have the same
clear sky and atmosphere. The Austria
lian climate is much like this; 80 much
that my wife and almost fancied our
selves in Australia"
Was it the original intention of the
professor to lecture during his visit t.?
mot az all. l am forced into it in
spite of myself. ] was overwhelmed with
woik at home and hoped to make of this
a mere pleasure-trip. When first invit ed
by my friends here to deliver lectures l
pro0esGed vehemently against it but l
have been forced to succumb."
Is .he lecture on the Direct Evi-
deuce o. Evolution new one."
Yes. newly prepared"
Would vbe Professors visit be long or
short?
"Only brief stay. shall start to-
morrow on brief visit to my friends of
Yale College, after which mean to bury
myself at Niagara Falls for week or
vwo. From there intend to go to Chi
cago, and perhaps TO st. Louis. Then l
shall pay visit to relative in the
South, and return to New York by way
of Baltimore and Philadelphia, stopping
in Baltimore to deliver an address before
the university of the CITY,"
To sundry other questions Mr.. Huxley
replied: That he was in good health (;
that he had been very kindly received
"killed with Kindness" he said that he
anticipated great pleasure and instruc-
tion from his visit.