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be worked out here. With some hesitation, I laid the 

 whole matter frankly before Huxley, and he spent nearly 

 two daya going over my specimens with me, and testing 

 each point I made. 



At each enquiry, whether he had a specimen to 

 illustrate such and such a point or exemplify a transi- 

 tion from earlier and less specialised forms to later 

 and more specialised ones, Professor Marsh would 

 simply turn to his assistant and bid him fetch box 

 number so and so, until Huxley turned upon him and 

 said, " I believe you are a magician ; whatever I want, 

 you just conjure it up." 



The upshot of this examination was that he recast 

 a great part of what he meant to say at New York. 

 When he had seen the specimens, and thoroughly 

 weighed their import, continues Professor Marsh 



He then informed me that all this was new to him, 

 and that my facts demonstrated the evolution of the horse 

 beyond question, and for the first time indicated the 

 direct line of descent of an existing animaL With the 

 generosity of true greatness, he gave up his own opinions 

 in the face of new truth, and took my conclusions as the 

 basis of his famous New York lecture on the horse. He 

 urged me to prepare without delay a volume on the 

 genealogy of the horse, based upon the specimens I had 

 shown him. This I promised, but other work and new 

 duties have thus far prevented. 



A letter to his wife describes his visit to Yale : 



My excellent host met me at the station, and seems as 

 if he could not make enough of me. I am installed in 

 apartments which were occupied by his uncle, the 

 millionaire Peabody, and am as quiet as if I were in my 



