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So I have just done giving a set of lectures to work- 

 ing men on "The Various Races of Mankind," which 

 really would make a book in Miss Emma's sense of the 

 word, and which I have had reported. But when am I 

 to work them up ? Twenty-four Hunterian Lectures 

 loom between me and Easter, I am dying to get out the 

 second volume of the book that is not a book, but in vain. 



I trust you are better, though the last news I had of 

 you from Lubbock was not so encouraging as I could 

 have wished. 



With best wishes and remembrances to Mrs. Darwin. 

 Ever yours, T. H. HUXLEY. 



Thanks for " Fur Darwin," l I had it 



26 ABBEY PLACE, Jan. 15, 1865. 



MY DEAR DARWIN Many thanks for Deslongchamps 

 paper, which I do not possess. 



I received another important publication yesterday 

 morning in the shape of a small but hearty son, who 

 came to light a little before six. The wife is getting on 

 capitally, and we are both greatly rejoiced at having 

 another boy, as your godson ran great risks of being 

 spoiled by a harem of sisters. 



The leader in the Reader is mine, and I am glad you 

 like it. The more so as it has got me into trouble with 

 some of my friends. However, the revolution that is 

 going on is not to be made with rose-water. 



I wish if anything occurs to you that would improve 

 the scientific part of the Reader, you would let me know, 

 as I am in great measure responsible for it. 



I am sorry not to have a better account of your health. 

 With kind remembrances to Mrs. Darwin and the rest of 

 your circle. Ever yours faithfully, T. H. HUXLEY. 



1 By Fritz Miiller, one of Darwin's earliest supporters in 

 Germany. 



