336 LIFE OF PROFESSOR HUXLEY CHAP. XVII 



difficulties by that time, and the first lieutenant scorns the 

 idea of being " worrited " about anything. I only grieve 

 it is such a mortal long way for you to come. 



I could find it in my heart to scold you well for your 

 generous aid to my poor client. I assure you I told you 

 all about the case because it was fresh in my mind, and 

 without the least notion of going to you for that kind of 

 aid. May it come back to you in some good shape or 

 other. 



I find it is no use to look for help from the emigration 

 people, but I have no fear of being able to get the 50 

 which will send them out by the Walter Hood. 



Would it be fair to apply to Bell in such a case ? I 

 will have *& talk to you about it at the Phil. Club. Ever, 

 my dear Hooker, yours faithfully, T. H. HDXLEY. 



In 1862, in addition to all the work connected 

 with the species question already detailed, Huxley 

 published three paleontological papers, 1 while the 

 paper on the "Anatomy and Development of 

 Pyrosoma," first read on December 1, 1859, was now 

 published in the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, 



In the list of work in hand are four paleontological 

 papers, 2 besides the slowly progressing Manual of 

 Comparative Anatomy. 



When he went north to deliver his lectures at 

 Edinburgh "On the relation of Man to the Lower 



1 " On the new Labyrinthodonts from the coal-field of Edin- 

 burgh"; "On a Stalk -eyed Crustacean from the coal-fields of 

 Paisley" ; and "On the Teeth of Diprotodon." 



2 "On Indian Fossils," on "Cephalaspis anit Pteraspis," on 

 " Stagonolepis," and a "Memoir descriptive of Labyrinthodont 

 remains from the Trias and Coal of Britain," which he first treated 

 of in 1858, " clearly establishing for the first time the vertebrate 

 nature of these remains." Sir M. Foster, Obit. Notice, Proc. R. S. 

 lix. 55. 



