4o8 LIFE OF PROFESSOR HUXLEY chap, xxvi 



microscopic work and some physiological experiment. The 

 ' types ' were more numerous than in later courses." 



In 1872 the new laboratory — the present one — was 

 ready. " I have a laboratory," writes Huxley to Dohm, 

 " which it shall do your eyes good to behold when you 

 come back from Ceylon, the short way " (i.e. via England). 

 Here a similar course, under the same demonstrators, as- 

 sisted by H. N. Martin, was given in the summer, Huxley, 

 though very shaky in health, making a point of carrying 

 them out himself. 



26 Abbey Place, /une 4, 1872. 

 My dear Tyndall — I must be at work on examination 

 papers all day to-day, but to-morrow I am good to lunch with 

 you (and abscond from the Royal Commission, which will get 

 on very well without me) or to go with you and call on your 

 friends, whichever may be most convenient. 



Many thanks for all your kind and good advice about the 

 lectures, but I really think they will not be too much for me, 

 and it is of the utmost importance I should carry them on. 



They are the commencement of a new system of teaching 

 which, if I mistake not, will grow into a big thing and bear 

 great fruit, and just at this present moment (nobody is neces- 

 sary very long) I am the necessary man to carry it on. I could 

 not get a suppleant if I would, and you are no more the man 

 than I am to let a pet scheme fall through for the fear of a 

 little risk of self. And really and truly I find that by taking 

 care I pull along very well. Moreover, it isn't my brains that 

 get wrong, but only my confounded stomach. 



I have read your memorial * which is very strong and strik- 

 ing, but a difficulty occurs to me about a good deal of it, and 

 that is that it won't do to quote Hooker's official letters before 

 they have been called for in Parliament, or otherwise made 

 public. We should find ourselves in the wrong officially, I am 

 afraid, by doing so. However we can discuss this when we 

 meet. I will be at the Athenaeum at 4 o'clock. — Ever yours 

 faithfully, T. H. Huxley. 



As for the teaching by " types," which was the most 

 salient feature of his method, and therefore the most easily 

 applied and misapplied. Professor Parker continues: — 



* In the affair of Dr. Hooker already referred to. 



