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agement were more grateful to me and of more service than 

 they will perhaps ever be again. I have done my best to jus- 

 tify you. 



I send copies of all the papers I have published with one 

 exception, of which I have none separate. Of the Royal Society 

 papers I send a double set. Will you be kind enough to give 

 one with my kind regards and remembrances to Dr. Nicholson? 

 I feel I ought to have written to him before leaving Sydney, 

 but I trust he will excuse my not having done so. 



I shall be very glad if you can find time to write. — Ever 

 yours faithfully, T. H. Huxley. 



W. Macleay, Esq. 



PS. — Miiller has just made a most extraordinary discovery, 

 no less than the generation of Molluscs from Holothuriae ! ! ! 

 You will find a translation of his paper by me in the Annals for 

 January 1852. 

 Di:c. 13, 1851. 



To HIS Sister 



A/ay 20, 1851. 



. . . Owen has been amazingly civil to me, and it was 

 through his writing to the First Lord that I got my present 

 appointment. He is a queer fish, more odd in appearance than 

 ever . . . and more bland in manner. He is so frightfully polite 

 that I never feel thoroughly at home with him. He got me to 

 furnish him with some notes for the second edition of the 

 Admiralty Manual of Scientific Inquiry, and I find that in it 

 Darwin and I (comparisons are odorous) figure as joint au- 

 thorities on some microscopic matters ! ! 



Professor Forbes, however, is my great ally, a first-rate man, 

 thoroughly in earnest and disinterested, and ready to give his 

 time and influence — which is great — to help any man who is 

 working for the cause. To him I am indebted for the super- 

 vision of papers that were published in my absence, for many 

 introductions, and most valuable information and assistance, 

 and all done in such a way as not to oppress one or give one 

 any feeling of patronage, which you know (so much do I retain 

 of my old self) would not suit me. My notions are diametrically 

 opposed to his in some matters, and he helps me to oppose him. 

 The other night, or rather nights, for it took three, I had a long 

 paper read at the Royal Society which opposed some of his 

 views, and he got up and spoke in the highest terms of it after- 



