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over the public, as examiners in London, and as confi- 
dential advisers of examiners and professors elsewhere, to 
ensure the cordial reception of such a system. What with 
Henslow's Botanical School diagrams now in progress and 
Museum Types we have made a fair start, and if you do 
not occupy the field in Zoology some pitiful botcher or 
other will. 
I am very glad that we shall meet at Darwin's. I wish 
that we could there discuss some plan that would bring 
about more unity in our efforts to advance Science. As I 
get more and more engrossed at Kew I feel the want of 
association with my brother Naturalists, — especially of such 
men as yourself, Busk,i Henfrey,^ Carpenter,^ and Darwin, — 
we never meet except by pure accident and seldom then as 
Naturalists, and if we want to introduce a mutual friend 
it is only by a cut and thrust into one another's business 
hours — it is the same thing with our publications ; they 
are sown broadcast over the barren acres of Journals and 
other periodicals which none of us can afford to buy and 
then weed : if either the Linnean or Royal could be made 
to stand in the same relation to Nat. Historians that the 
Geological does to -Geologists [&c.] great good would accrue, 
^ George Busk (1807-86) studied at the College of Surgeons and entered 
the naval medical service in 1832, leaving it in 1855 for purely scientific pur- 
suits, chiefly microscopic work on the Bryozoa, and later, palasontological 
osteology. He became F.R.C.S. in 1843 and President in 1871, as well as 
serving on its board of examiners. For twenty-five years also he was examiner 
in physiology and anatomy for the Indian army and navy medical services. 
He did much public work as Treasurer of the Royal Institution, Hunterian 
Professor and Trustee, and Fellow of the Linnean, Royal, Geological, and Zoo- 
logical Societies, receiving the Royal and WoUaston Medals, and was President 
of the Microscopical and Anthropological Societies, and edited various scientific 
journals. A close personal friend of both Hooker and Huxley, he was one of 
the nine friends who made up the X Club. 
^ Arthur Henfrey (1819-59) succeeded Edward Forbes in the botanical 
chair at King's College in 1853. His original writings, translations and 
editorial work did much for education and physiological botany. 
3 William Benjamin Carpenter (1813-85) was ' one of the last examples 
of an almost universal naturalist,' especially in the direction of marine zoology 
and deep sea exploration. His most notable work was in Physiology, his 
Principles of General and Corajparative Physiology (1839) being the first English 
book contpining adequate conceptions of a science of biology. His Principles 
of Mental Physiology takes first place among his researches into the relations 
between mind and body, including suggestion and the unconscious activity of 
the brain. He came to London in 1844, when he was elected F.R.S. and held 
various chairs of Physiology, and was Examiner in Physiology and Comparative 
Anatomy at the University of London, until elected Registrar, 1856-79. 
