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the weary inutility of it ? It is really worse than 

 nothing, because it leads the unwary to look for the 

 objects of science elsewhere than under their noses. 

 What they want to know is that their " America is here," 

 as Wilhelm Meister has it Yours faithfully, 



T. H. HUXLEY. 



Alfred Walker, Esq., Nant-y-Glyn, Colwyn Bay. 

 To THE KEV. P. BRODIE OF WARWICK 



JERMYN ST., Oct. 14, 1859. 



MY DEAR MR. BRODIE I am sorry to say that I can 

 as yet send you no catalogue of ours. The remodelling 

 of our museum is only just completed, and only the 

 introductory part of my catalogue is written. When it is 

 printed you shall have an early copy. 



If I may make a suggestion, I should say that a 

 catalogue of your museum for popular use should 

 commence with a sketch of the topography and strati- 

 graphy of the county, put into the most intelligible 

 language, and illustrated by reference to mineral speci- 

 mens in the cases, and to the localities where sections 

 showing the superposition of such and such beds are to be 

 seen. After that I think should come a list of the most 

 remarkable and interesting fossils, with reference to the 

 cases where they are to be seen ; and under the head of 

 each a brief popular account of the kind of animal or 

 plant which the thing was when alive, its probable habits, 

 and its meaning and importance as a member of the great 

 series of successive forms of life. Yours very faithfully, 



T. H. HUXLEY. 



The reorganisation of the course of studies at 

 Jermyn Street, fully sketched out in the 1857 note- 

 book, involved two very serious additions to his 



