Mr.Huxley appends a note at page xlix: "It should be noted that these pages were written before the appearance of Mr.
Darwin's book on 'The Origin of Species'-- a work which has effected a revolution in biological speculation.") is simply the very best resume, by far, on the whole science of Natural History, which I have ever seen.
I really have no criticisms: I agree with every word.

Your metaphors and explanations strike me as admirable.

In many parts it is curious how what you have written agrees with what I have been writing, only with the melancholy difference for me that you put everything in twice as striking a manner as I do.

I append, more for the sake of showing that I have attended to the whole than for any other object, a few most trivial criticisms.
I was amused to meet with some of the arguments, which you advanced in talk with me, on classification; and it pleases me, [that] my long proses were so far not thrown away, as they led you to bring out here some good sentences.

But on classification (59/2.