4SO LIFE OF PROFESSOR HUXLEY chap, xxviii 



hardness of the times being considered — to be satisfied with 

 fewer than seven members thereof. 



I hear excellent accounts of the progress of the Station from 

 Lankester, and I hope that it is now set on its legs permanently. 

 As for the English contribution, you must look upon it simply as 

 the expression of the hearty goodwill of your many friends in 

 the land of fogs, and of our strong feeling that where you had 

 sacrificed so much for the cause of science, we were, as a matter 

 of duty, — quite apart from goodwill to you personally — bound to 

 do what we could, each according to his ability. 



Darwin is, in all things, noble and generous — one of those 

 people who think it a privilege to let him help. I know he was' 

 very pleased with what you said to him. He is working away 

 at a new edition of the Descent of Man, for which I have given 

 him some notes on the brain question. 



And apropos of that how is your own particular brain? I 



back la belle M against all the physicians in the world — 



even against mine own particular jEsculapius, Dr. Clark — to 

 find the sovereignest remedy against the blue devils. 



Let me hear from you — most abominable of correspondents 

 as I am. And why don't you send Madame's photograph that 

 you have promised? — Ever yours very faithfully, 



T. H. Huxley. 



Pray give my kind remembrances to your father. 



4 Marlborough Place, March 31, 1874. 



My dear Darwin — The brain business * is more than half 

 done, and I will soon polish it off and send it to you. We are 

 going dovi'n to Folkestone for a week on Thursday, and I shall 

 take it with me. 



I do not know what is doing about Dohrn's business at pres- 

 ent. Foster took it in hand, but the last time I heard he was 

 waiting for reports from Dew and Balfour. 



You have been very generous as always; and I hope that 

 other folk may follow your example, but like yourself I am not 

 sanguine. 



I have had an awfully tempting offer to go to Yankee-land 

 on a lecturing expedition, and I am seriously thinking of making 

 an experiment next spring. 



* A note on the brain in man and the apes for the second edition 

 of the Descent of Man. 



