"Abram, Abraham became By will divine Let pickled Brian's name Be changed to Brine!"

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Poem in letter Joseph Dalton Hooker (4 December 1894) in response to hearing that Hooker's son had fallen into a salt vat. Huxley papers at Imperial College London HP 2.454