74 THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY 



Species" (Coll. Essays, ii, p. 80), deals more particularly 

 with difficulties advanced by Prof. Kolliker and M. 

 Flourens. Of the scientific eminence of the former it is 

 superfluous to speak, but at that date he seems to have 

 misunderstood Darwin in several points. Huxley, con- 

 sequently, though without sparing full criticism, treated 

 his views with consideration, but very properly handled 

 Flourens in quite another manner : — 



" Strongly and freely as we have ventured to disagree with 

 Professor Kolliker, we have always done so with regret, and 

 we trust without violating that respect which is due, not only 

 to his scientific eminence and to the careful study which he has 

 devoted to the subject, but to the perfect fairness of his argu- 

 mentation, and the generous appreciation of the worth of Mr, 

 Darwin's labours which he always displays. It would be 

 satisfactory to say as much for M. Flourens. But the Perpetual 

 Secretary of the French Academy of Sciences deals with Mr. 

 Darwin as the first Napoleon would have treated an ' ideologue ' ; 

 and while displaying a painful weakness of logic and shallowness 

 of information, assumes a tone of authority, which always 

 touches upon the ludicrous, and sometimes passes the limits of 

 good breeding." 



Of scientific memoirs we have the following : — 



1. " Further Remarks upon the Human Remains from 

 the Neanderthal " (Nat. Hist. Rev., iv, 1864, pp. 429-46. 

 Sci. Mem., ii, xxxvi, p. 573)- — This completes the 

 work of a previous paper {cf. p. 6^), and in it Huxley 

 thus enjoins the maintenance of a non-committal attitude : — 



" The duty of the anatomist appears to me to lie as little in 

 eagerly building theories upon these variations of human structure, 

 as in ignoring them when they are obvious. Let them be 

 noted and estimated at their just weight — the future will tell 

 us their meaning." 



2. " On the Angwdntibo (Arctocebus Calabarensis, 

 Gray) of Old Calabar" (Proc. Zool. Soc, 1864, pp. 314- 



