The task of drawing up detailed instructions is divided among a lot of us; but you are as full of ideas as an egg is full of meat, and are shrewdly suspected of having, somewhere in your capacious cranium, a store of notions which would be of great value to the naturalists.
All I can say is, that if you have not already "collated facts" on this topic, it will be the first subject I ever suggested to you on which you had not.
Of course we do not expect you to put yourself to any great trouble—nor ask for such a thing—but if you will jot down any notes that occur to you we shall be thankful.
We must have everything in hand for printing by March 15.
Ever yours very faithfully,
T.H. Huxley.
[The following letter dates from soon after the death of Charles
Kingsley:—]
Science Schools, South Kensington, October 22, 1875.
Dear Miss Kingsley,
I sincerely trust that you believe I have been abroad and prostrated by illness, and have thereby accounted for receiving no reply to your letter of a fortnight back.