1864 CRITICISMS OF THE e ORIGIN ' 365 



JERMYN STREET, Oct. 5, 1864. 



MY DEAR DARWIN I am very glad to see your hand- 

 writing (in ink) again, and none the less on account of the 

 pretty words into which it was shaped. 



It is a great pleasure to me that you like the article, 

 for it was written very hurriedly, and I did not feel sure 

 when I had done that I had always rightly represented 

 your views. 



Hang the two scalps up in your wigwam ! 



Flourens I could have believed anything of, but how 

 a man of Kolliker's real intelligence and ability could 

 have so misunderstood the question is more than I can 

 comprehend. 



It will be a thousand pities, however, if any review inter- 

 feres with your saying something on the subject yourself. 

 Unless it should give you needless work I heartily wish 

 you would. 



Everybody tells me I am looking so exceedingly well 

 that I am ashamed to say a word to the contrary. But 

 the fact is, I get no exercise, and a great deal of bothering 

 work on our Commission's Cruise ; and though much 

 fatter (indeed a regular bloater myself), I am not up to 

 the mark. Next year I will have a real holiday. 1 



I am a bachelor, my wife and belongings being all at 

 that beautiful place, Margate. When I came back I found 

 them all looking so seedy that I took them off bag and 

 baggage to that, as the handiest place, before a week 

 was over. They are wonderfully improved already, 

 my wife especially being abundantly provided with her 

 favourite east wind. Your godson is growing a very 

 sturdy fellow, and I begin to puzzle my head with think- 

 ing what he is and what he is not to be taught. 



Please to remember me very kindly to Mrs. Darwin, 

 and believe me yours very faithfully, T. H. HUXLEY. 



1 At the end of the year, as so often, he went off for a ploy with 

 Tyndall, this time into Derbyshire, walking vigorously over the 



