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Flower publishes a paper on the subject in the forthcoming 

 number of the N. H. Review. 



Might it not be well to allude to the fact that the existence 

 of the posterior lobe, posterior cornu, and hippocampus in the 

 Orang has been publicly demonstrated to an audience of experts 

 at the College of Surgeons? — Ever yours faithfully, 



T. H. Huxley. 



The success of Man's Place was immediate, despite such 

 criticisms as that of the Athcnaum, that " Ly ell's object is to 

 make man old, Huxley's to degrade him." By the middle 

 of February it reached its second thousand; in July it is 

 heard of as republished in America; at the same time L. 

 Buchner writes that he wished to translate it into German, 

 but finds himself forestalled by Victor Carus. From another 

 aspect. Lord Enniskillen, thanking him for the book, says 

 (March 3), " I believe you are already excommunicated by 

 book, bell, and candle," while in an undated note, Bollaert 

 writes, " The Bishop of Oxford the other day spoke about 

 ' the church having been in danger of late, by such books 

 as Colenso's, but that it (the church) was now restored.' 

 And this at a time, he might have added, when the works 

 of Darwin, Lyell, and Huxley are torn from the hands of 

 Mudie's shopmen, as if they were novels — (see Daily Tele- 

 graph, April 10)." 



At the same time, the impression left by his work upon 

 the minds of the leading men of science may be judged 

 from a few words of Sir Charles Lyell, who writes to a 

 friend on March 15, 1863 {Life and Letters, ii. 366): — 



Huxley's second thousand is going off well. If he had 

 leisure like you and me, and the vigour and logic of the lectures, 

 and his address to the Geological Society, and half a dozen other 

 recent works (letters to the Times on Darwin, etc.), had been 

 all in one book, what a position he would occupy ! I entreated 

 him not to undertake the Natural History Review before it 

 began. The responsibility all falls on the man of chief energy 

 and talent; it is a quarterly mischief, and will end in knocking 

 him up. 



A similar estimate appears from an earlier letter of March 

 II, 1859 {Life and Letters, ii. 321), when he quotes Huxley's 



