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exaggerated modification of one of the two types (and the 

 lower) of Australian skulls. 



After the fashion of accounting for the elephant of old, I 

 suppose it will be said that it was imported. But luckily the 

 differences, though only of degree, are rather too marked for 

 this hypothesis. 



I only wish I had a clear six months to work at the subject. 

 Little did I dream what the undertaking to arrange your three 

 woodcuts would lead to. It will come in the long-run, I believe, 

 to a new ethnological method, new modes of measurement, a 

 new datum line, and new methods of registration. 



If one had but two heads and neither required sleep ! 



One immediate result of his investigations, which ap- 

 peared in a lecture at the Royal Institution (February 7, 

 1862), " On the Fossil Remains of Man," was incorpo- 

 rated in Man's Place in Nature. But a more important con- 

 sequence of this impulse was that he went seriously into 

 the study of Ethnology. Of his work in this branch of 

 natural science, Professor Virchow, speaking at the dinner 

 given him by the English medical profession on October 

 5, 1898, declared that in the eyes of German savants it 

 alone would suffice to secure immortal reverence for his 

 name. 



The concluding stage in the long controversy raised first 

 at Oxford, was the British Association meeting at Cam- 

 bridge in 1862. It was here that Professor (afterwards Sir 

 W. H.) Flower made his public demonstration of the exist- 

 ence in apes of the cerebral characters said to be peculiar 

 to man. 



From the ist to the 9th of October Huxley stayed at 

 Cambridge as the guest of Professor Fawcett at Trinity 

 Hall, running over to Felixstow on the 5th to see his wife, 

 whose health did not allow her to accompany him. 



As President of Section D he had a good deal to do, 

 and he describes the course of events in a letter to Dar- 

 win: — 



26 Abbey Place, Oct. 9, 1862. 



My dear Darwin — It is a source of sincere pleasure to me 

 to learn that anything I can say or do is a pleasure to you, and 

 I was therefore very glad to get your letter at that whirligig of 



