Publisher has just sent to say that I must give him any corrections for
second thousand of my booklet immediately.

Why did not Miss Etty send any critical remarks on that subject by the
same post? I should be most immensely obliged for them.

Ever yours faithfully,

T.H. Huxley.

[During this period of special work at the anthropological side of the
Evolution theory, Huxley made two important contributions to the general
question.

As secretary of the Geological Society, the duty of delivering the
anniversary address in 1862 fell to him in the absence of the president,
Leonard Horner, who had been driven by ill-health to winter in Italy.

The object at which he aimed appears from the postscript of a brief note
of February 19, 1862, to Hooker:--]

I am writing the body of the address, and I am going to criticise
Paleontological doctrines in general in a way that will flutter their
nerves considerable.

Darwin is met everywhere with--Oh this is opposed to paleontology, or
that is opposed to paleontology--and I mean to turn round and ask, "Now,
messieurs les Paleontologues, what the devil DO you really know?"

I have not changed sex, although the postscript is longer than the