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We may throw in the astronomers if the thing goes. 



Green of Leeds will undertake 10 ; Dyer, with Hooker's 

 aid, 9 ; M. Foster 8 ; and I look to you for 7. 



Tyndall has half promised to do Boyle, and I hope he 

 will Clerk-Maxwell can't undertake Newton, and hints 

 X. But I won't have X. he is too much of a bolter to 

 go into the tandem. I am thinking of asking Moulton, 

 who ia strongly recommended by Spottiswoode, and is a 

 very able fellow, likely to put his strength into it 



Do you know anything about Chrystal of St. 

 Andrews I 1 I forget whether I asked you before. From 

 all 1 hear of him I expect he would do No. 6 very well. 

 I have written to Adamson by this post 



I shall get off with Harvey and Darwin to my share. 

 Ever yours very faithfully, ' T. H. HUXLEY. 



4 MARLBOROUGH PLACE, N.W., 

 Dec. 26, 1878. 



MY DEAR KOSCOE I was very loth to lump the 

 chemists together, but Max was very strong about not 

 having too many books in the series ; and on the other 

 hand, I had my doubts how far the chemists were capable 

 of " dissociation " without making the book too technical. 



But I do not regard the present arrangement as un- 

 alterable, and if you think the early chemists and the 

 later chemists would do better in two separate groups, 

 the matter is quite open to consideration. 



Maxwell says he is overdone with work already, and 

 altogether declines to take anything new. I shall have 

 to look about me for a man to do the Physikers. 



Of course Adamson will have to take in a view of the 

 science of the Middle Ages. That will be one of the 

 most interesting parts of the book, and I hope he will do 

 it well. I suppose he knows his Dante. 



1 Now Professor of Mathematics at Edinburgh. 

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