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the trawlers and their opponents, and making direct 

 investigations into the habits of the herring. 



The following letter to Mr. (afterwards Sir W. H.) 

 Flower, then Curator of the Royal College of Surgeons 

 Museum, refers to this trip and to his appointment 

 to the examinership in physiology at the College of 

 Surgeons, for which he had applied in May and which 

 he held until 1870. Mr. Flower, indeed, was deeply 

 interested at this time in the same problems as 

 Huxley, and helped his investigations for Man's Place 

 by making a number of dissections to test the disputed 

 relations between the brain of man and of the apes. 



HOTEL DE LA JUNGFRAU, 

 AEGGISCHHOEN, July 18, 1862. 



MY DEAR FLOWER Many thanks for your letter. I 

 shall make my acknowledgments to the council in due 

 form when I have read the official announcement on nay 

 return to England. I trust they will not have occasion 



to repent declining Dr. 's offer. At any rate I shall 



do my best. 



I am particularly obliged to you for telling me about 

 the Dijon bones. Dijon lies quite in my way in return- 

 ing to England, and I shall stop a day there for the 

 purpose of making the acquaintance of M. Nodet and his 

 Schizopleuron. I have a sort of dim recollection that 

 there are some other remains of extinct South American 

 mammals in the Dijon Museum which I ought to see. 



Your news about the lower jaw made me burst out 

 into such an exclamation that all the salle- a -manger 

 heard me ! I saw the fitness of the thing at once. The 

 foramen and the shape of the condyle ought to have 

 suggested it at once. 



I have had a very pleasant trip, passing through 



