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tology instead of zoology, under Vogt, he appeared to be really 

 pleased, and expressed himself freely on the advantage of being 

 guided by so eminent an authority and so liberal a thinker as 

 was the self-imposed exile of the University of Geneva. And in 

 truth it must be admitted that there was much in Vogt that 

 reminded me of Huxley. Like the latter, he was fearlessly out- 

 spoken in his utterances. Witness his tirade against the late 

 Emperor William of Germany, delivered as a protest against the 

 expenditure of the state's money on bronze and iron cannon when 

 it could have been more humanely and profitably used in the 

 purchase of the then recently discovered second specimen of 

 AarchcRopteryx that strange fossil hybrid connecting bird and 

 reptile which has since found its way to the Berlin Museum. 

 Like his English prototype, Vogt was also an admirable lecturer, 

 fluent in diction and facile with the crayon, but it can hardly be 

 claimed that either the quality or the tone of his lectures was 

 fully representative of the scholarship of their author. 



Vogt never allowed the opportunity of a pun to escape him, 

 and his hons mots were at times hardly more elegant than they 

 were appropriate; but, for all that, he was very popular, and 

 equally so with the few women students of his class as with the 

 men. He spoke in French with a decided German intonation, fre- 

 quently relieving himself of a sigh brought about by an uncom- 

 fortably asthmatic condition. His powerful bodily frame, dispro- 

 portionably shortened through a generous development of tissue 

 about the equatorial region, was in marked contrast to the tall 

 and nearly upright carriage of Prof. Huxley, whose slightly stoop- 

 ing head and shoulders reduced somewhat what might otherwise 

 have been considered a more than average height. Huxley never 

 entered the class lecture room except in a dress in which he was 

 immediately prepared to go to the street ; Vogt rarely appeared 

 without a coat which did not in one or more places show visible 

 signs of underlying shirt sleeves. The presence of women in no 

 way affected his Wohlgefuhl, and in truth it must be said that this 

 class of students was to him in a measure a blank, as he invari- 

 ably addressed the class only as " Messieurs." 



Among the many warm friends and admirers that Huxley 

 numbered within the ranks of the scientific fraternity there was 

 none who was more enthusiastic in his admiration of the great 

 man than the distinguished comparative anatomist of the Royal 

 College of Surgeons, the late Prof. Kitchen Parker. An after- 

 noon and evening spent at the home of this most genial and all- 

 overflowing host serves my memory as the record of one of the 

 j)leasantest incidents of my student life in London. Huxley and 

 Parker had not many years before announced their new classi- 

 fication of birds worked out conjointly on characters founded 



