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pretty nearly worn out with nursing day and night; but by 

 great good fortune " the happy family " has escaped all perma- 

 nent injury, and you might hear as much laughter in the house 

 as at Swanage. 



Will you be so kind as to thank Professor Gegenbaur for a 

 paper on the development of the vertebral column of Lepidos- 

 teum I have just received from him ? He has been writing about 

 the process of ossification and the " deck-knochen " question, but 

 I cannot make out exactly where. Could you let me know? 



I am anxious for the Arthropoden Work, but I expect to 

 gasp when it comes. 



Turn to p. 380 of the new edition of our friend Kolliker's 

 Handbuch, and you will find that though a view which I took 

 of the " organon adamantinae " some twelve or fourteen years 

 ago, and which Kolliker has up to this time repudiated, turns 

 out, and is now admitted by him, to be perfectly correct, yet 

 " that I was not acquainted with the facts that would justify 

 the conclusion." Really, if I had time I could be angry. 



Pray remember me most kindly to Haeckel, to all whose 

 enemies I wish confusion, and believe me, ever yours faithfully, 



T. H. Huxley. 



PS. — I have read a hundred pages or so of Fanny Lewald's 

 1st Bd., and am delighted with her insight into child-life. 



Tyndall was resigning his lectureship at the School of 

 Mines — 



Jermyn Street, yzmc 10, i858. 



My dear Tyndall — All I can say is, I am heartily sorry. 



If you feel that your lectures here interfere with your origi- 

 nal work, I should not be a true friend either to science or 

 yourself if I said a word against your leaving us. 



But for all that I am and shall remain very sorry. — Ever 

 yours very sincerely, T. H. Huxley. 



If you recommend , of course I shall be very glad to 



support him in any way I can. But at present I am rather dis- 

 posed to d n anyone who occupies your place. 



The following extract is from a letter to Haeckel 

 (November 13, 1868), with reference to the proposed trans- 

 lation of his Morphologie by the Ray Society : — 



We shall at once look out for a good translator of the text, 

 as the job will be a long and a tough one. My wife (who sends 



