CHAPTER XVIII 

 1864 



The year 1864 was much like 1863. The Hunterian 

 Lectures were still part of his regular work. The Fishery 

 Commission claimed a large portion of his time. From 

 March 28 to April 2 he was in Cornwall ; on May 7 at 

 Shoreham ; from July 24 to September 9 visiting the coasts 

 of Scotland and Ireland. The same pressure of work con- 

 tinued. He published four papers on paleontological or 

 anatomical subjects in the Natural History Review,* he 

 wrote " Further Remarks upon the Human Remains from 

 the Neanderthal," and later (see pp. 273 and 288), dealing 

 with " Criticisms on the Origin of Species " (Collected Essays 

 11. p. 80, " Darwiniana "), he gently but firmly dispersed 

 several misconceptions of his old friend Kolliker as to the 

 plain meaning of the book ; and ridiculed the pretentious 

 ignorance of M. Flourens' dicta upon the same subject ; 

 while in the winter he delivered a course of lectures to 

 workingmen on " The Various Races of Mankind," a choice 

 of subject which shows that his chief interest at that time 

 lay in Ethnology. 



Jermvn Street, /un. 16, 1864. 



My dear Darwin — I have had no news of you for a long 

 time, but I earnestly hope you are better. 



Have you any objection to putting your name to Flower's 

 certificate for the Royal Society herewith inclosed? It will 



* On " Cetacean Fossils termed Ziphius by Cuvier," in the Trans- 

 actions of the Geological Society ; in those of the Zoological, papers on 

 " Arctocebus Calabarensis " and "the Structure of the Stomach in 

 Desmodus Rufus" ; and on the " Osteology of the Genus Glyptodon," 

 in the Phil. Trans. 



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