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nents, and making direct investigations into the habits of 

 the herring. 



The following letter to Mr. (afterwards Sir W. H.) 

 Flower, then Curator of the Royal College of Surgeons' 

 Museum, refers to this trip and to his appointment to the 

 examinership in physiology at the College of Surgeons, for 

 which he had applied in May and which he held until 1870. 

 Mr. Flower, indeed, was deeply interested at this time in 

 the same problems as Huxley, and helped his investigations 

 for Man's Place by making a number of dissections to test 

 the disputed relations between the brain of man and of 

 the apes. 



Hotel de la Jungfrau, Aeggischhorn, /u/y 18, 1862. 



My dear Flower — Many thanks for your letter. I shall 

 make my acknowledgments to the council in due form when I 

 have read the official announcement on my return to England. 



I trust they will not have occasion to repent declining Dr. 's 



offer. At any rate I shall do my best. 



I am particularly obliged to you for telling me about the 

 Dijon bones. Dijon lies quite in my way in returning to Eng- 

 land, and I shall stop a day there for the purpose of making the 

 acquaintance of M. Nodet and his Schizopleuron. I have a sort 

 of dim recollection that there are some other remains of extinct 

 South American mammals in the Dijon Museum which I ought 

 to see. 



Your news about the lower jaw made me burst out into such 

 an exclamation that all the salle-a-manger heard me ! I saw the 

 fitness of the thing at once. The foramen and the shape of the 

 condyle ought to have suggested it at once. 



I have had a very pleasant trip, passing through Grindel- 

 wald, the Aar valley, and the Rhone valley, as far as here; but, 

 up to the day before yesterday, my health remained very unsatis- 

 factory, and I was terribly teased by the neuralgia or rheu- 

 matism or whatever it is. 



On that day, however, I had a very sharp climb involving a 

 great deal of exertion and a most prodigious sweating, and on 

 the next morning I really woke up a new man. Yesterday I re- 

 peated the dose and I am in hopes now that I shall come back 

 fit to grapple with all the work that lies before me. — Ever, my 



dear Flower, yours very faithfully, ^ ^^ ^^ 



•^ T. H. Huxley. 



