Hodeslea, Eastbourne, January 28, 1891.
Dear Lankester,
I met Foster at the Athenaeum when I was in town last week, and we had some talk about your "very gentle" stirring of the Oxford pudding. I asked him to let you know when occasion offered, that (as I had already said to Burdon Sanderson) I drew a clear line apud biology between the medical student and the science student.
With respect to the former, I consider it ought to be kept within strict limits, and made simply a Vorschule to human anatomy and physiology.
On the other hand, the man who is going out in natural science ought to have a much larger dose, especially in the direction of morphology. However, from what I understood from Foster, there seems a doubt about the "going out" in "Natural Science", so I had better confine myself to the medicos. Their burden is already so heavy that I do not want to see it increased by a needless weight even of elementary biology.
Very many thanks for the "Zoological articles" just arrived.
Ever yours very faithfully,
T.H. Huxley.
Don't write to the "Times" about anything; look at the trouble that comes upon a harmless man for two months, in consequence.
[The following letter, which I quote from the "Yorkshire Herald" of
April 11, 1891, was written in answer to some inquiries from Mr. J.
Harrison, who read a paper on Technical Education as applied to
Agriculture, before the Easingwold Agricultural Club.]