CHAPTEK XVIII 



1864 



THE year 1864 was much like 1863. The Hunterian 

 Lectures were still part of his regular work. The 

 Fishery Commission claimed a large portion of his 

 time. From March 28 to April 2 he was in Corn- 

 wall ; on May 7 at Shoreham ; from July 24 to 

 September 9 visiting the coasts of Scotland and 

 Ireland. The same pressure of work continued. 

 He published four papers on paleontological or ana- 

 tomical subjects in the Natural History Review? he 

 wrote " Further Eemarks upon the Human Eemains 

 from the Neanderthal," and later (see pp. 365 and 

 385), dealing with "Criticisms of the Origin of Species" 

 (Collected Essays, ii. 80, " Darwiniana "), he gently 

 but firmly dispersed several misconceptions of his 

 old friend Kolliker as to the plain meaning of the 



1 On "Cetacean Fossils termed Ziphius by Cuvier," in the 

 Transactions of the Geological Society ; in those of the Zoological, 

 papers on " Arctocebus Calabarensis " and " the Structure of the 

 Stomach in Desmodus Rufus " ; and on the " Osteology of the Genus 

 Glyptodon," in the Phil. Trans. 



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