234 LIFE OF PROFESSOR HUXLEY CHAP. XII 



Miiller and one to Professor Victor Carus, and the rest 

 went to other friends. 



I am sorry to say that a mere fragment of what I 

 originally intended to have published has appeared, the 

 series having been concluded when I reached the end of 

 the Crustacea. To say truth, the Lectures were not 

 fitted for the journal in which they appeared. 



I did not know that any one in Germany had noticed 

 them until I received the copy of your Benefit for 1856, 

 which you were kind enough to send me. I owe you 

 many thanks for the manner in which you speak of them, 

 and I assure you it was a source of great pleasure and 

 encouragement to me to find so competent a judge as 

 yourself appreciating and sympathising with my objects. 



Particular branches of zoology have been cultivated in 

 this country with great success, as you are well aware, 

 but ten years ago I do not believe that there were half a 

 dozen of my countrymen who had the slightest compre- 

 hension of morphology, and of what you and I should 

 call " "Wissenschaftliche Zoologie." 



Those who thought about the matter at all took 

 Owen's osteological extravaganzas for the ne plus ultra of 

 morphological speculation. 



I learned the meaning of Morphology and the value of 

 development as the criterion of morphological views first, 

 from the study of the Hydrozoa during a long voyage, 

 and secondly, from the writings of Von Bar. I have 

 done my best, both by precept and practice, to inaugurate 

 better methods and a better spirit than had long prevailed. 

 Others have taken the same views, and I confidently 

 hope that a new epoch for zoology is dawning among us. 

 I do not claim for myself any great share in the good 

 work, but I have not flinched when there was anything 

 to be done. 



Under these circumstances you will imagine that it 

 was very pleasant to find on your side a recognition of 

 what I was about. 



