Michael Foster and Thomas Henry Huxley, Correspondence, Letters 20 through 52, 1865–1895

Abstract

My dear Foster A pretty fellow I am not to have answered your letter – but I was dead beat at the end of last week & did nothing more than could be helped. I have arranged to make only some introductory observations – by way of floating you among the schoolmasters and I expect that the lectures will not be given before the beginning of July. Any time on either Friday or Saturday will suit me for a talk here – Don’t come if it is a bad day like this. I however ought to have looked over Pye Smith’s Glossary, not only for the elimination of Beulian Bosh but on other grounds. Par exemple look at the second paragraph of the explication of Abdomen which happens to be the first word in the glossary. Where the deuce did he hear that the abdomen of his Insect is a “segment” & above all a “coalesced segment”. I shall have that thrown in my teeth by ingenuous youth. Ever Yours kindly T. H. Huxley