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appreciation and encouragement were more grateful to 

 me and of more service than they will perhaps ever be 

 again. I have done my best to justify you. 



I send copies of all the papers I have published with 

 one exception, of which I have none separate. Of the 

 Eoyal Society papers I send a double set. Will you be 

 kind enough to give one with my kind regards and 

 remembrances to Dr. Nicholson 1 I feel I ought to have 

 written to him before leaving Sydney, but I trust he wiD 

 excuse my not having done so. 



I shall be very glad if you can find time to write. 

 Ever yours faithfully, T. H. HUXLEY. 



W. Macleay, Esq. 



P.S. Miiller has just made a most extraordinary 

 discovery, no less than the generation of Molluscs from 

 Holothurise ! ! ! You will find a translation of his 

 paper by me in the Annals for January 1852. 

 Dec. 13, 1851. 



To HIS SISTER 



May 20, 1851. 



. . . Owen has been amazingly civil to me, and it 

 was through his writing to the First Lord that I got my 

 present appointment. He is a queer fish, more odd in 

 appearance than ever . . . and more bland in manner. 

 He is so frightfully polite that I never feel thoroughly 

 at home with him. He got me to furnish him with 

 some notes for the second edition of the Admiralty 

 Manual of Scientific Inquiry, and I find that in it Darwin 

 and I (comparisons are odorous) figure as joint authorities 

 on some microscopic matters ! ! 



Professor Forbes, however, is my great ally, a first- 

 rate man, thoroughly in earnest and disinterested, and 

 ready to give his time and influence which is great 

 to help any man who is working for the cause. To him 



