2 THE RIGHT HON. THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY. 



The brief description of the purpose of the Association, adopted and 

 circulated by its authority, was due to him, and runs as follows : " To 

 establish and maintain Laboratories on the coast of the United 

 Kinf,f(lom, where accurate researches may be carried on, leading to the 

 improvement of Zoological and Botanical Science, and to an increase of 

 our knowledge as regards the food, life-conditions, and habits, of British 

 food-fishes and molluscs." 



This is not the place to speak of the manifold labours of our late 

 President in other fields. Our Association is but one of a hundred 

 useful works in which his hand can be traced. But it is, above all, as 

 the man who, without sacrificing the respect of his opponents, has 

 gained for scientific thought a freedom and a hearing, such as were 

 absolutely denied to it in his younger days, that Englishmen must ever 

 remember Huxley with gratitude. Whenever we consult his writings, 

 whether in the laboratory, or in the study — we recognise his power, his 

 extraordinary range and accuracy of knowledge, and his charming 

 style : but we must not think of him either as merely a zoologist, or, as 

 merely an essayist, but as a man who most strenuously, and successfully, 

 fought for the supremacy of Science. 



E. Bay Lankester. 

 July, 1895. 



