222 LIFE OF PROFESSOR HUXLEY CHAP. XII 



This part of the paper had grown out of the 

 investigations begun for the essay on the Vertebrate 

 Skull, 1 just as that on Jacare and Caiman from inquiry 

 into the scales of Stagonolepis. 



Thus he was still able to devote most of his time 

 to original research. But though in his letter of 

 March 27, 1855, below, he says, "I never write for 

 the Reviews now, as original work is much more to my 

 taste," it appears from jottings in his 1859 notebook, 

 such as "WhewelPs History of Scientific Ideas, as a 

 Peg on which to hang Cuvier article," that he again 

 found it necessary to supplement his income by 

 writing. He was still examiner at London Univer- 

 sity, and delivered six lectures on Animal Motion at 

 the London Institution and another at Warwick. 

 This lecture he had offered to give at the Warwick 

 Museum as some recognition of the willing help he 

 had received from the assistants when he came down 

 to examine certain fossils there. On the way he 

 visited Dr. Rolleston 2 at Oxford. The knowledge of 

 Oxford life gained from this and a Jater visit led him 

 to write : 



The more I see of the place the more glad I am that 

 I elected to stay in London. I see much to admire and 

 like ; but I am more and more convinced that it would 

 not suit me as a residence. 



Two more important points remain to be mentioned 



1 See p. 203. 



2 George Rolleston, 1829-1881, Regius Professor of Physic at 

 Oxford, 1857 ; Linacre Professor of Comparative Anatomy, 1860. 



