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ago, but I found spectacles made this rather worse and left 

 them off again. However, I do catch myself holding a news- 

 paper further off than I used to do. 



' Now don't let six months go by without writing again. If 

 our little venture succeeds this time, we shall send again.* — ■ 

 Ever, my dearest Lizzie, your affectionate brother, 



T. H. Huxley. 



He writes to his wife, who had taken the children to 

 Margate : — 



Sept. 22. — I am now busy over a paper for the Zool. Soc. ; 

 after that there is one for the Ethnological which was read last 

 session though not written. . . . Don't blaspheme about going 

 into the bye-ways. They are both in the direct road of the 

 book, only over the hills instead of going over the beaten path. 



Oct. 6. — I heard from Darwin last night jubilating over an 

 article of mine which is published in the last number of the 

 Nat. Hist. Review, and which he is immensely pleased with. . . . 

 My lectures tire me, from want of practice, I suppose. I shall 

 soon get into swing. 



The article in question was the " Criticisms of the Origin 

 of Species," of which he writes to Darwin : — 



Jermyn Street, Oct. 5, 1864. 



My dear Darwin — I am very glad to see your handwriting 

 (in ink) again, and none the less on account of the pretty words 

 into which it was shaped. 



It is a great pleasure to me that you like the article, for it 

 was written very hurriedly, and I did not feel sure when I had 

 done that I had always rightly represented your views. 



Hang the two scalps up in your wigwam ! 



Flourens I could have believed anything of, but how a man 

 of Kolliker's real intelligence and ability could have so mis- 

 understood the question is more than I can comprehend. 



It will be a thousand pities, however, if any review inter- 

 feres with your saying something on the subject yourself. Un- 

 less it should give you needless work I heartily wish you would. 



Everybody tells me I am looking so exceedingly well that I 

 am ashamed to say a word to the contrary. But the fact is, I 

 get no exercise, and a great deal of bothering work on our Com- 



* i.e. a package of various presents to the family. 



