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At this starting point of liis life he had the good fortune, the luck 

 that waits on merit, to be engaj^ed as assistant to Professor Huxley 

 in the Biological Division of the Koyal School of Mines. In this 

 apprenticeship he won the respect and appreciation of his dis- 

 tinguished chief, to whom he was himself heartily attached. 

 Accordingly in 1881 he was chosen to succeed Thomas JefEery 

 Parker as Demonstrator in Biology in what was at that time 

 styled the Normal School of Science and Royal School of Mines, 

 and at the same verbosely named iustitutiou he became Assistant- 

 Professor in 1885. Though nominally assistant Howes was in 

 reality the acting professor, Huxley's name in the titular pro- 

 fessorship beiug retained partly out of respect to that celebrated 

 man and partly for the gloritication of the school itself. Earlier 

 than tliis Howes had been appointed Lecturer on Anatomy at 

 St. George's Hospital Medical School. In 1895 he succeeded 

 Huxley in the full professorship of zoology in the great establish- 

 ment which at this date received its more compendious and more 

 dignified designation as the Royal College of Science. He 

 gallantly fulfilled the duties of this ofiice almost without 

 interruption until the breakdown of his health in 1903, finally 

 relinquishing it in 1904, when there was no longer any hope of 

 his permanent recovery. He died on February 4th, 1905, lamented 

 not only by those nearest and dearest to him, but by numerous 

 colleagues in whom his cheerfulness and generous temper had 

 kindled warm attachment, by old pupils deeply indebted to him 

 for instruction and encouragement, and by many learned societies 

 and associations which he had assisted in their business affairs 

 with ever ready help or enlightened on various occasions from the 

 vast stores of his scientific knowledge. 



To the staple employment of his time already indicated, Howes 

 added the following activities. He was at one time or another 

 examiner in zoology at the University of London, in the honour 

 school of animal morphology at the University of Oxford, in zoology 

 and comparative anatomy for the Victorian University and for the 

 University of Xew Zealand, and assistant examiner in elementary 

 physiology, biology, and zoology to the Science and Art Depart- 

 ment. Together with these obviously strength-taxing employments 

 he readily accepted others which individually might seem un- 

 oppressive, but which by accumulation are quite fitted to produce 

 an excessive strain on any man's endurance. Thus we find him at 

 various dates, member of council and vice-president of the Zoolo- 

 gical Society ; treasurer of the Anatomical Society (1890-1903) ; 

 treasurer of the Liunean Club ; zoological secretary of the Linnean 

 Society (1895-1903) ; serving on the zoology committee of the 

 Royal Society ; on the executive committee and delegate for the 

 Colony of Victoria at the International Congress of Zoology (1898) ; 

 delegate in various capacities and a vice-president at the Berlin 

 Congress (1901) ; an active member of the committee for the 

 reorganization of the Zoological Gardens (1902); president of 



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