174 LIFE OF PROFESSOR HUXLEY chap, xii 



When Nettie and I were young fools we agreed we would 

 marry whenever we had £200 a year. Well, we have had more 

 than twice that to begin upon, and how it is we have kept out of 

 the Bench is a mystery to me. But we have, and I am inclined 

 to think that the Missus has got a private hoard (out of the 

 puddings) for Noel. 



I shall leave Nettie to finish this rambling letter. In the 

 meanwhile, my best love to you and yours, and mind you are a 

 better correspondent than your affectionate brother, Tom. 



To Professor Leuckart 



The Government School of Mines, 

 Jermyn Street, London, January 30, 1859. 



My dear Sir — Our mutual friend. Dr. Harley, informs me 

 that you have expressed a wish to become possessed of a sepa- 

 rate copy of my lectures, published in the Medical Times. I 

 greatly regret that I have not one to send you. The publisher 

 only gave me half a dozen separate copies of the numbers of 

 the journal in which the Lectures appeared. Of these I sent 

 one to Johannes Miiller and one to Professor Victor Carus, 

 and the rest went to other friends. 



I am sorry to say that a mere fragment of what I originally 

 intended to have published has appeared, the series having been 

 concluded when I reached the end of the Crustacea. To say 

 truth, the Lectures were not fitted for the journal in which they 

 appeared. 



I did not know that anyone in Germany had noticed them 

 until I received the copy of your Bericht for 1856, which you 

 were kind enough to send me. I owe you many thanks for the 

 manner in which you speak of them, and I assure you it was a 

 source of great pleasure and encouragement to me to find so 

 competent a judge as yourself appreciating and sympathising 

 with my objects. 



Particular branches of zoology have been cultivated in this 

 country with great success, as you are well aware, but ten years 

 ago I do not believe that there were half a dozen of my country- 

 men who had the slightest comprehension of morphology, and of 

 what you and I should call " Wissenschaftliche Zoologie." 



Those who thought about the matter at all took Owen's 

 osteological extravaganzas for the ne plus ultra of morphological 

 speculation. 



I learned the meaning of Morphology and the value of de- 



