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to judge whether, when so employed, my occupation is 

 to be referred to the former or to the latter category. 



For this he was roundly lectured by the Spectator 

 on January 29, in an article under the heading 

 " Pope Huxley." Regardless of the rights or wrongs 

 of the controversy, he was chidden for the abusive 

 language of the above paragraph, and told that he 

 was a very good anatomist, but had better not enter 

 into discussions on other subjects. 



The same question is developed in the address 

 to the Ethnological Society later in the year and 

 in "Some Fixed Points in British Ethnology" 

 (see above, p. 5), and reiterated in an address 

 from the chair in Section D at the British Associa- 

 tion in 1878 at Dublin, and in a letter to the Times 

 for October 12, 1887, apropos of a leading article 

 upon " British Eace-types of To-day." 



Letter-writing was difficult under such pressure 

 of work, but the claims of absent friends were not 

 wholly forgotten, though left on one side for a time, 

 and the warm-hearted Dohrn, who could not bear to 

 think himself forgotten, managed to get a letter out 

 of him not on scientific business. 



26 ABBEY PLACE, Jan. 30, 1870. 



MY DEAR DOHRN In one sense I deserve all the hard 

 things you may have said and thought about me, for it is 

 really scandalous and indefensible that I have not written 

 to you. But in another sense, I do not, for I have very 

 often thought about you and your doings, and as I have 

 told you once before, your memory always remains green 

 in the " happy family." 



