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only did this cruise exercise its influence upon his intellectual life, but 

 as he met his future wife in the person of a Sydney lady it was also 

 eventful in his domestic history. . . . Upon her birthday Huxley 

 presented the little daughter of a friend with a volume of Lytton's 

 poems, and sketched upon the title-page a drawing of himself. 



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Dressed in the shoes, knee-breeches, and frock coat of the period, he 

 seems to be bowing his departure. In his extended right hand a 

 v/atch is held, to show that time will not permit him to linger another 

 minute. By those who knew him in later years the face is said to be a 

 capital likeness." __ 



We may take this opportunity of quoting the following lines 

 which form the epitaph on Huxley's tombstone : 



" And if there be no meeting past the grave, 

 If all is darkness, silence, yet 'tis rest. 

 Be not afraid, ye waiting hearts that weep 

 For God ' still giveth His beloved sleep.' 

 And if an endless sleep He wills, so best " 



These touching words were written by Mrs. Huxley, and, according 

 to the Brilish Medical Journal, -were used at Huxley's own recjuest. 



The Atherunun informs us that a difference has arisen among the 

 members of the Huxley Memorial Committee as to whether the 

 jiiemorial should take the form of a statue or of a scholarship. Our 



