Letter from William Huggins, 90 Upper Tulse Hill, S W [South West] London, to the Secretary [Joseph Larmor] Regarding work relating to Mars. He jokes that '[George Johnstone] Stoney suffers in particular from a form of hydrophobia which raises him to fury at the mention of Martian water'. He also writes that '[Henry Cabourn] Pocklington's paper was in fault because it gave to visible Martian "canals" a narrowness which is impossible if our established optical theory is right'. Huggins regrets that he was 'not with the privileged 100 last Thursday' [at Larmor's Bakerian Lecture], but has been reading and rereading his abstract. 21 November 1909