202 LIFE OF PROFESSOR HUXLEY CHAP. X 



The writers to select their own subjects. Now the 

 question is, Will seven or eight of us, representing different 

 sciences, join together and undertake to supply at least 

 one article in three months ? Once a fortnight would 

 want a minimum of six articles in three months, so that 

 if there were six, each man must supply one. 



Sylvester is talked of for Mathematics. I am going 

 to write to Tyndall about doing Physics. Maskelyne 

 and perhaps Frankland will take Chemistry and Miner- 

 alogy. You and I might do Biology ; Eamsay, Geology ; 

 Smyth, Technology. 



This looks to me like a very feasible plan, not asking 

 too much of any one, and yet giving all an opportunity of 

 saying what he has to say. 



Besides this the Saturday would be glad to get Reviews 

 from us. 



If all those mentioned agree to join, we will meet 

 somewhere and discuss plans. 



Let me have a line to say what you think, and believe 

 me, ever yours faithfully, T. H. HUXLEY. 



In 1858 he read three papers at the Geological 

 and two at the Linnean ; he lectured (February 1 5) 

 on Fish and Fisheries at South Kensington, and on 

 May 21 gave a Friday evening discourse at the Royal 

 Institution on " The Phenomena of Gemmation." 

 He wrote an article for Todd's Cydopcedia, on the 

 Tegumentary Organs, an elaborate paper, as Sir M. 

 Foster says, on a histological theme, to which, as to 

 others of the same class on the Teeth and the 

 Corpuscula Tactus (Q. J. Micr. Sci. 1853-4), he had 

 been " led probably by the desire, which only gradu- 

 ally and through lack of fulfilment left him, to become 

 a physiologist rather than a naturalist." 



