CHAPTER XX 

 1866 



Besides his Fullerian lectures on Ethnology at the 

 Royal Institution this year, Huxley published in February 

 1866 a paper in the Natural History Review, on the " Pre- 

 historic Remains of Caithness," based upon a quantity of 

 remains found the previous autumn at Keiss. This, and 

 the article on the " Neanderthal Skull " in the Natural 

 History Review for 1864, attracted some notice among for- 

 eign anthropologists. Dr. H. Welcker writes about them; 

 Dr. A. Ecker wants the " Prehistoric Remains " for his 

 new Archiv filr Anthropologie ; the Societe d'Anthropologie 

 de Paris elects him a Foreign Associate. 



He was asked by Dr. Fayrer to assist in a great scheme 

 he had proposed to the Asiatic Society,* to gather men of 

 every tribe from India, the Malayan Peninsula, Persia, Ara- 

 bia, the Indian Archipelago, etc., for anthropological pur- 

 poses. It was well received by the Council of the Society 

 and by the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal ; anything Hux- 

 ley could say in its favour would be of great weight. Would 

 he come out as Dr. Fayrer's guest ? 



Unable to go to Calcutta, he sent the following letter : — 



Jermyn Street, London, June 14, 1866. 

 My dear Fayrer — I lose no time in replying to your second 

 letter, and my first business is to apologise for not having an- 

 swered the first, but it reached me in the thick of my lectures, 

 and like a great many other things which ought to have been 

 done I put off replying to a more convenient season. I have 



* Comp. Chap. XXII. ad inif. and Appendix I. 

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