2i6 LIFE OF PROFESSOR HUXLEY chap, xv 



win will, I think, take his place with such men as Harvey, and 

 even if he is wrong his sobriety and accuracy of thought will 

 put him on a far different level from Lamarck. I want to make 

 this clear to people. 



I am disposed to agree with you about the " emasculate " 

 and " uncircumcised " — partly for your reasons, partly because 

 I believe it is an excellent rule always to erase anything that 

 strikes one as particularly smart when writing it. But it is a 

 great piece of self-denial to abstain from expressing my peculiar 

 antipathy to the people indicated, and I hope I shall be rewarded 

 for the virtue. 



As to the secondary causes I only wished to guard myself 

 from being understood to imply that I had any comprehension 

 of the meaning of the term. If my phrase looks naughty I will 

 alter it. What I want is to be read, and therefore to give no 

 unnecessary handle to the enemy. There will be row enough 

 whatever I do. 



Our Commission here * implicates us in an inquiry of some 

 difficulty, and which involves the interests of a great many poor 

 people. I am afraid it will not leave me very much leisure. But 

 we are in the midst of a charming country, and the work is not 

 unpleasant or uninteresting. If the sun would only shine more 

 than once a week it would be perfect. — With kind remem- 

 brances to Lady Lyell, believe me, faithfully yours, 



T. H. Huxley. 



We shall be here for the next ten days at least. But my 

 wife will always know my whereabouts. 



Jermyn Street, March 23, 1863. 



My dear Sir Charles — I suspect that the passage to which 

 you refer must have been taken from my unrevised proofs, for it 

 corresponds very nearly with what is written at p. 97 of my 

 book. 



Flower has recently discovered that the Siamang's brain 

 affords an even more curious exception to the general rule than 

 that of Mycetes, as the cerebral hemispheres leave part not only 

 of the sides but of the hinder end of the cerebellum uncovered. 



As it is one of the Anthropoid apes and yet differs in this 

 respect far more widely from the gorilla than the gorilla differs 

 from man, it offers a charming example of the value of cerebral 

 characters. 



* The Fishery Commission. 



