384 LIFE OF PROFESSOR HUXLEY chap, xxi 



You will observe that a great deal remains to be done. The 

 muscular system is untouched; the structure and nature of the 

 terminal circumvallate papilla have to be made out ; die lingual 

 teeth must be re-examined ; and the characters of the male deter- 

 mined. If I recollect rightly, Owen published something about 

 the last point. 



If I can be of any service to you in any questions that arise, 

 I shall be very glad; but as I am putting the trouble of the work 

 on your shoulders, I wish you to have the credit of it. 



So far as I am concerned, all that is needful is to say that 

 such and such drawings were made by me. — Ever yours very 

 faithfully, T. H. Huxley. 



HODESLEA, Oct. 12, 1893. 



Dear Professor Pelseneer — I am very glad to hear from 

 you that the homology of the cephalopod arms with the gas- 

 teropod foot is now generally admitted. When I advocated 

 that opinion in my memoir on the " Morphology of the Cepha- 

 lous Mollusca," some forty years ago, it was thought a great 

 heresy. 



As to publication; I am quite willing to agree to whatever 

 arrangement you think desirable, so long as you are kind enough 

 to take all trouble (but that of " consulting physician ") off my 

 shoulders. Perhaps putting both names to the memoir, as you 

 suggest, will be the best way. I cannot undertake to write any- 

 thing, but if you think I can be of any use as an adviser or critic, 

 do not hesitate to demand my services. — Ever yours very faith- 

 fully, T. H. Huxley. 



Although in February he had stayed several days in 

 town with the Donnellys, who " take as much care of me 

 as if I were a piece of old china," and had attended a 

 levee and a meeting of his London University Association, 

 had listened with interest to a lecture of Professor Dewar, 

 who " made liquid oxygen by the pint," and dined at Marl- 

 borough House, the influenza had prevented him during the 

 spring from fulfilling several engagements in London ; but 

 after his return from Oxford he began to recruit in the fine 

 weather, and found delightful occupation in putting up a 

 rockery in the garden for his pet Alpine plants. 



In mid June he writes to his wife, then on a visit to 

 one of her daughters : — • 



