I should be disposed to try him, nevertheless.
I don't think I have had final revise of Biology yet.
I do not know that "Coelenterata" is Lankester's speciality. However, he is sure to do it well if he takes it up.
Ever yours very faithfully,
T.H. Huxley.
4 Marlborough Place, N.W., October 12, 1875.
My dear Baynes,
Do you remember my telling you that I should before long be publishing a book, of which general considerations on Biology would form a part, and that I should have to go over the same ground as in the article for the Encyclopaedia?
Well, that prediction is about to be verified, and I want to know what
I am to do.
You see, as I am neither dealing with Theology, nor History, nor Criticism, I can't take a fresh departure and say something entirely different from what I have just written.