186 LIFE OF PROFESSOR HUXLEY CHAP. VII 



Extracts from his letters to Professor Baynes 

 between the years 1873 and 1884, serve to illustrate 

 the work which he did and the relations he maintained 

 with the genial and learned editor. 



Nov. 2, 1873. I have been spending my Sunday 

 morning in drawing up a list of headings, which will I 

 think exhaust biology from the Animal point of view, 

 and each of which does not involve more than you are 

 likely to get from one man. In many cases, i.e. Insecta, 

 Entomology, I have subdivided the subjects, because, by 

 an unlucky peculiarity of workers in these subjects, 

 men who understand zoology from its systematic side are 

 often ignorant of anatomy, and those who know fossils 

 are often weak in recent forms. 



But of course the subdivision does not imply that one 

 man should not take the whole if he is competent to do 

 so. And if separate contributors supply articles on these 

 several subdivisions, somebody must see that they work 

 in harmony. 



But with all the good will in the world, he was 

 too hard pressed to get his quota done as quickly as 

 he wished. He suggests at once that " Hydrozoa " 

 and " Actinozoa," in his list, should be dealt with by 

 the writer of the article " Coelenterata." 



Shunting " Actinozoa " to " Crelenterata " would do 

 no harm, and would have the great merit of letting me 

 breathe a little. But if you think better that " Actinozoa " 

 should come in its place under A, I will try what I can 

 do. 



December 30, 1873. As to Anthropology, I really am 

 afraid to promise. At present I am plunged in Amphibia, 

 doing a lot of original work to settle questions which 



