I have the pleasure of sending you – with my Memoirs on the Foraminifera – a copy of Prof. Wyville Thomson’s paper on the early Development of Comatula, and of a various papers relating to Eozoon. As I have not a copy left of the original || Memoirs, I send you an American reprints of them.
To these I add a copy of my Graduation Thesis of 28 years ago; by which you will see that I can claim to have been the first to show the application of the doctrines of Reflex action to b the nervous system of || Articulata and other Invertebrata. At that time it was the current doctrine (in this country at least) that the gangliatec tract was sentory; and the fibrous tract motor; and my friend Newport upheld this doctrine for several years, until convinced by his own experiments that I was right. The first time that Kölliker was in London, I found that he attributes to Newport || the first application of the doctrine of reflex action to the Articulata; and was surprised when I proved to him my prior claim.
The short abstract of my lecture at the Royal Institution will show you what I had been teaching on the subject of it since 1850, when I could scarcely get any one to listen to me.
I hope that you will give me the pleasure of a visit here tomorrow between 12 and 4 o’clock. Believe me
