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With this may be compared his letter to the Times 

 of July 8, 1874 (ii. pp. 139, 140). 



No scientific monographs were published in 1865 

 by Huxley, but his lectures of the previous winter to 

 working men on " The Various Races of Mankind " 

 are an indication of his continued interest in Eth- 

 nology, which, set going, as has been said, by the 

 promise to revise the woodcuts for Lyell's book, 

 found expression in such papers as the "Human 

 Remains in the Shell Mounds," 1863; the "Nean- 

 derthal Remains" of 1864; the "Methods and 

 Results of Ethnology " of 1865 ; his Fullerian 

 Lectures of 1866-67; papers on "Two Widely 

 Contrasted Forms of the Human Cranium " of 1866 

 and 1868; the "Patagonian Skulls" of 1868; and 

 " Some Fixed Points in British Ethnology " of 

 1870. 



His published ethnological papers (says Sir Michael 

 Foster) are not numerous, nor can they be taken as a 

 measure of his influence on this branch of study. In 

 many ways he has made himself felt, not the least by the 

 severity with which on the one hand he repressed the 

 pretensions of shallow persons who, taking advantage of 

 the glamour of the Darwinian doctrine, talked nonsense 

 in the name of anthropological science, and on the other 

 hand, exposed those who in the structure of the brain or 

 of other parts, saw an impassable gulf between man and 

 the monkey. The episode of the " hippocampus " stirred 

 for a while not only science but the general public. He 

 used his influence, already year by year growing more 

 and more powerful, to keep the study of the natural 

 history of man witbin its proper lines, and chiefly with 



