166/203 Ernst Hackel's "Freedom in Science and Teaching," with a prefatory note by T.H.Huxley, 1879. Professor Hackel has recently published (without permission) a letter in which Mr.Darwin comments severely on Virchow. It is difficult to say which would have pained Mr.Darwin more--the affront to a colleague, or the breach of confidence in a friend.) I have read only the preface...It is capital, and I enjoyed the tremendous rap on the knuckles which you gave Virchow at the close. What a pleasure it must be to write as you can do! LETTER 295. |