Down, April 11th [1864].
I am very much obliged for your present of your "Comp.

Anatomy." (175/1.
"Lectures on the Elements of Comparative Anatomy," 1864.) When strong enough I am sure I shall read it with greatest interest.

I could not resist the last chapter, of which I have read a part, and have been much interested about the "inspired idiot." (175/2.

In reference to Oken (op.cit., page 282) Huxley says: "I must confess I never read his works without thinking of the epithet of 'inspired idiot' applied to our own Goldsmith.") If Owen wrote the article "Oken" (175/3.

The article on Oken in the eighth edition of the "Encyclopaedia Britannica" is signed "R.O.": Huxley wrote to Darwin (April 18th, 1864), "There is not the smallest question that Owen wrote both the article 'Oken' and the 'Archetype' Book" (Huxley's "Life," I., page 250).