CHAPTER XXI 



1867 



IT has already been noted that Huxley's ethnological 

 work continued this year with a second series of 

 lectures at the Royal Institution, while he enlarged 

 his paper on "Two widely contrasted forms of 

 Human Crania," and published it in the Journal 

 of Anatomy. One paleontological memoir of his 

 appeared this year on Acanthopholis, a fossil from 

 the chalk marl, an additional piece of work for 

 which he excuses himself to Sir C. Lyell (January 4, 

 1867) : 



The new reptile advertised in Geol. Mag. has turned 

 up in the way of business, and I could not help giving 

 a notice of it, or I should not have undertaken anything 

 fresh just now. 



The Spitzbergen things are very different, and I have 

 taken sundry looks at them and put them by again to 

 let my thoughts ripen. 



They are Ichthyosaurian, and I am not sure they do 

 not belong to two species. But it is an awful business 

 to compare all the Ichthyosaurians. I think that one 

 form is new. Please to tell Nordenskiold this much. 

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