Will you be so kind as to thank Professor Gegenbaur for a paper on the development of the vertebral column of Lepidosteum 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 Werk," but I expect to gasp when it comes.
Turn to page 380 of the new edition of our friend Kolliker's "Handbuch," and you will find that though a view which I took off 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.
P.S.—I have read a hundred pages or so of Fanny Lewald's first Bd., and am delighted with her insight into child-life.
[Tyndall was resigning his lectureship at the School of Mines:—]
Jermyn Street, June 10, 1868.
My dear Tyndall,
All I can say is, I am heartily sorry.