LIFE OF PROFESSOR HUXLEY CHAP, xxi 



You will observe that a great deal remains to be done. The 

 muscular system is untouched; the structure and nature of the 

 terminal circumvallate papilla have to be made out; the lingual 

 teeth must be re-examined ; and the characters of the male deter- 

 mined. If I recollect rightly, Owen published something about 

 the last point. 



If I can be of any service to you in any questions that arise, 

 I shall be very glad ; but as I am putting the trouble of the work 

 on your shoulders, I wish you to have the credit of it. 



So far as I am concerned, all that is needful is to say that 

 such and such drawings were made by me. Ever yours very 

 faithfully, T. H. HUXLEY. 



HODESLEA, Oct. 12, 1893. 



DEAR PROFESSOR PELSENEER I am very glad to hear from 

 you that the homology of the cephalopod arms with the gas- 

 teropod foot is now generally admitted. When I advocated 

 that opinion in my memoir on the " Morphology of the Cepha- 

 lous Mollusca," some forty years ago, it was thought a great 

 heresy. 



As to publication ; I am quite willing to agree to whatever 

 arrangement you think desirable, so long as you are kind enough 

 to take all trouble (but that of "consulting physician") off my 

 shoulders. Perhaps putting both names to the memoir, as you 

 suggest, will be the best way. I cannot undertake to write any- 

 thing, but if you think I can be of any use as an adviser or critic, 

 do not hesitate to demand my services. Ever yours very faith- 

 fully, T. H. HUXLEY. 



Although in February he had stayed several days in 

 town with the Donnellys, who ' take as much care of me 

 as if I were a piece of old china," and had attended a 

 levee and a meeting of his London University Association, 

 had listened with interest to a lecture of Professor Dewar, 

 who " made liquid oxygen by the pint," and dined at Marl- 

 borough House, the influenza had prevented him during the 

 spring from fulfilling several engagements in London ; but 

 after his return from Oxford he began to recruit in the fine 

 weather, and found delightful occupation in putting up a 

 rockery in the garden for his pet Alpine plants. 



In mid June he writes to his wife, then on a visit to 

 one of her daughters : 



