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  • A striking specimen of one is to be found in his article on Lyell in the last Quarterly, where he pillories poor Quekett -- a most inoffensive man and his own immediate subordinate -- in a manner not more remarkable for its severity than for its bad taste.

    Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1 Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

  • A striking specimen of one is to be found in his article on Lyell in the last Quarterly, where he pillories poor Quekett ” a most inoffensive man and his own immediate subordinate ” in a manner not more remarkable for its severity than for its bad taste.

    The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Huxley, Leonard 1900

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