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had no wish to claim even joint authorship for the 

 completed paper ; when the question was first raised, 

 he desired merely that it should be stated that such 

 and such drawings were made by him ; but when 

 Professor Pelseneer insisted that both names should 

 appear as joint authors, he consented to this solution 

 of the question. 



HoDESLEA, Sept. 17, 1893, 



Dear Mr. Murray i— If the plates of Spirula could 

 be turned to account a great burthen would be taken off 

 my mind. 



Professor Pelseneer is every way competent to do justice 

 to the subject ; and he has just what I needed, namely 

 another specimen to check and complete the work ; and 

 besides that, the physical capacity for dissection and close 

 observation, of which I have had nothing left since my 

 long illness. 



Will you be so good as to tell Professor Pelseneer that 

 I shall be glad to place the plates at his disposal and to 

 give him all the explanations I can of the drawings, 

 whenever it may suit his convenience to take up the 

 work ? 



Nothing beyond mere fragments remained of the 

 specimen. — I am, yours very faithfully, 



T. H. Huxley. 



I return Pelseneer's letter. 



HoDESLEA, Sept. 30, 1893. 



Dear Professor Pelseneer — I send herewith (by 



this post) a fuU explanation of the plates of Spirula 



(including those of which you have unlettered copies). I 



trust you will not be too much embarrassed by my bad 



1 Now K.C.B. ; Director of the "Reports of the Ghallenger." 



