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half done for more than a twelvemonth, and I hate the sight of 

 them because the subject no longer interests me, and my head is 

 full of other matters. 



So I have just done giving a set of lectures to working-men 

 on " The Various Races of Mankind," which really would make 

 a book in Miss Emma's sense of the word, and which I have had 

 reported. But when am I to work them up ? Twenty-four Hun- 

 terian Lectures loom between me and Easter. I am dying to get 

 out the second volume of the book that is not a book, but in vain. 



I trust you are better, though the last news I had of you 

 from Lubbock was not so encouraging as I could have wished. 



With best wishes and remembrances to Mrs. Darwin — Ever 

 yours, T. H. Huxley. 



Thanks for " fin Darwin," I had it. 



26 Abbey Place, Jan. 15, 1865. 



My dear Darwin — Many thanks for Deslongchamps' paper 

 which I do not possess. 



I received another important publication yesterday morning 

 in the shape of a small but hearty son, who came to light a little 

 before six. The wife is getting on capitally, and we are both 

 greatly rejoiced at having another boy, as your godson ran great 

 risks of being spoiled by a harem of sisters. 



The leader in the Reader is mine, and I am glad you like it. 

 The more so as it has got me into trouble with some of my 

 friends. However, the revolution that is going on is not to be 

 made with rose-water. 



I wish if anything occurs to you that would improve the 

 scientific part of the Reader, you would let me know as I am in 

 great measure responsible for it. 



I am sorry not to have a better account of your health. 

 With kind remembrances to Mrs. Darwin and the rest of your 

 circle — Ever yours faithfully, T. H. Huxley. 



Jermyn Street, May i, 1865. 

 My dear Darwin — I send you by this post a booklet * none 

 of which is much worth your reading, while of nine-tenths of it 

 you may say as the man did who had been trying to read John- 

 son's Dictionary, "that the words were fine, but he couldn't 

 make much of the story." 



* Probably "A Catalogue of the Collection of Fossils in the 

 Museum of Practical Geology," etc. 



