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Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley - Volume 1

Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley - Volume 1

Huxley, Leonard

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ISBN10: 1153741962
ISBN13: 9781153741965
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 236
Weight: 0.77
Height: 0.53 Width: 9.01 Depth: 5.98
Language: English
Excerpt: ...5, 1858. My dear Hooker, I am glad Mrs. Hooker has found rest for the sole of her foot. I returned her Tyndall's letter yesterday. Wallace's impetus seems to have set Darwin going in earnest, and I am rejoiced to hear we shall learn his views in full, at last. I look forward to a great revolution being effected. Depend upon it, in natural history, as in everything else, when the English mind fully determines to work a thing out, it will do it better than any other. I firmly believe in the advent of an English epoch in science and art, which will lick the Augustan (which, by the bye, had neither science nor art in our sense, but you know what I mean) into fits. So hooray, in the first place, for the Genera plantarum. I can quite understand the need of a new one, and I am right glad you have undertaken it. It seems to me to be in all respects the sort of work for you, and exactly adapted to your environment at Kew. I remember you mentioned to me some time ago that you were thinking of it. I wish I could even hope that such a thing would be even attempted in the course of this generation for animals. But with animal morphology in the state in which it is now, we have no terminology that will stand, and consequently concise and comparable definitions are in many cases impossible. If old Dom. Gray John Edward Gray (1800-1875) appointed Keeper of the Zoological Collections in the British Museum in 1840.) were but an intelligent activity instead of being a sort of zoological whirlwind, what a deal he might do. And I am hopeless of Owen's comprehending what classification means since the publication of the wonderful scheme which adorns the last edition of his lectures. As you say, I have found this a great place for work of price. I have finished the Oceanic Hydrozoa all but the bookwork, for which I must have access to the B. M. Library-but another week will do him. My notes are from eight to twelve years old, and really I often have felt like the...

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