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real justice both for ourselves, our subject population, and the 

 Afghans themselves. 



There, you plague. — Ever your affec. Daddy, 



T. H. Huxley. 



A few days later he writes to his son : — 



The Liberals are making fools of themselves, and " the 

 family " declare I am becoming a Jingo ! Another speech from 

 Gladstone is expected to complete my conversion. 



Among other occupations he still had to attend the 

 Scottish Universities Commission, for which he wrote the 

 paragraph on examinations in its report ; he lectured on the 

 Hand at the Working Men's College ; prepared new editions 

 of the Physiography, Elementary Physiology, and Vertebrate 

 Anatomy, and at length brought out the Introductory Primer 

 in the Science Primer Series, in quite a dififerent form from 

 what he had originally sketched out. But his chief interest 

 lay in the Invertebrata. From April 29 to June 3 he lec- 

 tured to working men at Jermyn Street upon the Crayfish ; 

 read a paper on the Classification and Distribution of Cray- 

 fishes at the Zoological Society on June 4, and lectured at 

 the Zoological Gardens weekly from May 17 to June 21 on 

 Crustaceous Animals. In all this work lay the foundations 

 of his subsequent book on the Crayfish, which I find 

 jotted down in the notes of this year to be written as an 

 introduction to Zoology, together with the " Dog," as an 

 introduction to the Mammalia, and Man — already dealt with 

 in Man's Place in Nature — as an introduction to Anthro- 

 pology. This projected series is completed with a half 

 erased note of an introduction to Psychology, which per- 

 haps found some expression in parts of the Hume, also 

 written this year. 



He notes down also, work on the Ascidians, and on the 

 morphology of the Mollusca and Cephalopods brought back 

 by the Challenger, in connection with which he now began 

 the monograph on the rare creature Spirula, a remarkable 

 piece of work, being based upon the dissections of a single 

 specimen, but destined never to be completed by his hand, 

 though his drawings were actually engraved, and nothing 



