had collaborated with Huxley, and became professor in Johns Hopkins 

 University, whence it spread to other institutions. 



The class seemed hardly worthy of the teachers, being mostly made 

 up of young men who were "going in" for the certificates of science- 

 teachers in the Board Schools. To the best of my knowledge, there were 

 only two men in the class who afterwards distinguished themselves. 

 F. E. Beddard, F. R. S., who was for many years prosector of the 

 Zoological Society of London, was at that date an undergraduate in 

 Oxford with leave of absence to take Huxley's course. A. G. Bourne, 

 of University College, London, was also an outstanding man. As to a 

 third man Bose, an Indian, I am uncertain. A man of that name in 

 India subsequendy attracted much attention by his plant experiments, 

 but I do not know whether he was the same. 



Saturday afternoons we had to ourselves and I usually spent the time 

 in the British Museum working with the fossil mammals. Till 1881, or 

 thereabouts, the natural history departments were kept in the old build- 

 ing in Great Russell Street. Sir Richard Owen was then the head of 

 the scientific departments and Dr. Henry Woodward, F. R. S., was 

 the keeper of the geological collections. Dr. Woodward was especially 

 kind and helpful and I kept up my friendship with him until his 

 death. A room was assigned to me, which I shared with Baron von 

 Ettingshausen, a distinguished German palaeobotanist. Poor Ettings- 

 hausen could speak very Uttle EngUsh and was almost helpless; even 

 my halting German was like manna in the wilderness to him. 



I had letters to Owen and Woodward and almost immediately found 

 that I had slipped into a British version of the Marsh-Cope controversy; 

 the Owen-Huxley feud was carried on in much the same spirit, though 

 in somewhat more decorous form. Owen had taken the anti-Darwinian 

 side in the great debate and he was extremely jealous of Huxley's ris- 

 ing reputation, for he had so long had the field of comparative anatomy 

 and vertebrate palaeontology to himself, that he could ill brook a rival. 

 Consequently, there had been many clashes between them and much 

 hard feeling on both sides. On one occasion, Huxley had said, in re- 

 ferring to Owen's views: "Oh! why slay the thrice-slain?" 



Owen took the first chance that offered to retaliate and the following 

 version of his remarks is one that Kitchen Parker gave me. It was, 

 if I remember rightly, in replying to a toast at a public dinner, that 

 Owen said: "There was once a great and beneficent giant, who harmed 

 no one and did much good, and there was a little man, a very little 

 man, who was filled with envy of the giant and sought to injure him, 



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