464 LIFE OF PROFESSOR HUXLEY CHAP. XIX 



unless the Himalayan Moorcroftiana belongs here. The 

 Arctic forms are also primary, but the petals more 

 extensively united. 



The specialised types are all Arctogeal with the 

 exception of half a dozen or so Andean species including 

 prostrata. 



There is a strange general parallelism with the cray- 

 fishes ! which also have their primary forms in Australia 

 and New Zealand, avoid E. S. America and Africa, and 

 become most differentiated in Arctogsea. But there are 

 also differences in detail 



It strikes me that this is uncommonly interesting ; 

 but, of course, all the information about the structure of 

 the flowers, etc., I get at second hand, wants verifying. 



Have you done the gentians of your Flora Indica yet ? 

 Do look at them from this point of view. 



I cannot make out what Grisebach means by his 

 division of Chondrophylla. What is a " cartilaginous " 

 margin to a leaf ? " Folia margine cartilaginea ! " He 

 has a lot of Indian sp. under this head. 



I send you a rough scheme I have drawn up. Please 

 let me have it back. Any annotations thankfully 

 received. Shan't apologise for bothering you. 



I hope the pension is settled at last. Ever yours, 



T. H. HUXLEY. 



4 MARYBOROUGH PLACE, 

 Sept. 22, 1886. 



MY DEAR HOOKER I have written to Lubbock a long 

 screed stating my views 1 with unmistakable distinctness 

 as politeful as may be, and asking him, if he thought 

 well, to send them on to whomsoever it may concern. 

 As old Gutzlaff 2 used to say when he wanted to get 



1 Referring to the relations between the S. K. department and 

 the City arid Guilds Committee on Technical Education. 

 - See p. 451. 



