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calculations were perfect in theory, but nearly broke down in 

 practice, inasmuch as I was twice obliged to travel first-class 

 when I calculated on second. The result was that my personal 

 expenses between Paris and London amounted to 1.50!! and I 

 arrived at my own house hungry and with a remainder of a 

 few centimes. I should think that your fate must have been 

 similar. 



Many thanks for writing to my wife. She sends her kind- 

 est remembrances to you. — Ever yours, T. H. H. 



The year 1857 was the last in which Huxley apparently 

 had time to go so far in journal-writing as to draw up a 

 balance-sheet at the year's end of work done and work 

 undone. Though he finds " as usual a lamentable differ- 

 ence between agenda and acta ; many things proposed to 

 be done not done, and many things not thought of finished," 

 still there is enough noted to satisfy most energetic people. 

 Mention has already been made of his lectures — sixty-six 

 at Jermyn Street, twelve Fullerian, and as many more to 

 prepare for the next year's course ; seven to working men, 

 and one at the Royal Institution, together with the rear- 

 rangement of specimens at the Jermyn Street Museum, 

 and the preparation of the Explanatory Catalogue, which 

 this year was published to the extent of the Introduction 

 and the Tertiary collections. To these may be added ex- 

 aminations at the London University, where he had suc- 

 ceeded Dr. Carpenter as examiner in Physiology and Com- 

 parative Anatomy in 1856, reviews, translations, a report 

 on Deep Sea Soundings, and ten scientific memoirs. 



The most important of the unfinished work consists of 

 the long-delayed Oceanic Hydrozoa, the Manual of Compara- 

 tive Anatomy, and a report on Fisheries. The rest of the 

 unfinished programme shows the usual commixture of tech- 

 nical studies in anatomy and paleontology, with essays on 

 the philosophical and educational bearings of his work. On 

 the one hand are memoirs of Daphnia, Nautilus, and the 

 Herring, the affinities of the Paleozoic Crustacea, the As- 

 cidian Catalogue and Positive Histology ; on the other, the 

 Literature of the Drift, a review of the present state of 

 philosophical anatomy, and a scheme for arranging the 



