142 LIFE OF PROFESSOR HUXLEY CHAP. V 



4 MARLBOROUGH PLACE, 

 March 31, 1874. 



MY DEAR DARWIN The brain business 1 is more than 

 half done, and I will soon polish it off and send it to you. 

 We are going down to Folkestone for a week on Thursday, 

 and I shall take it with me. 



I do not know what is doing about Dohrn's business 

 at present. Foster took it in hand, but the last time I 

 heard he was waiting for reports from Dew and Balfour. 



You have been very generous as always ; and I hope 

 that other folk may follow your example, but like your- 

 self I am not sanguine. 



I have had an awfully tempting offer to go to 

 Yankee-land on a lecturing expedition, and I am seriously 

 thinking of making an experiment next spring. 



The chance of clearing two or three thousand pounds 

 in as many months is not to be sneezed at by a pdre de 

 famille. I am getting sick of the state of things here. 

 Ever yours faithfully, T. H. HUXLEY. 



I have heard no more about the spirit photographs ! 



4 MARLBOROUGH PLACE, 

 April 16, 1874. 



MY DEAR DARWIN Put my contribution into the 

 smallest type possible, for it will be read by none but 

 anatomists ; and never mind where it goes. 



I am glad you agree with me about the hand and foot 

 and skull question. As Ward 2 said of Mill's opinions, 



you can only account for the views of Messrs. and 



Co. on the supposition of " grave personal sin " on their 

 part. 



I had a letter from Dohrn a day or two ago in which 



1 A note on the brain in man and the apes for the second 

 edition of the Descent of Man. 



2 W. G. Ward. (See i. 454.) 



