128 Notes and Comment 



7, 23. In partibus infidelium: "among the unfaithful." 



8, 9. The disagreeables: a humorous equivalent for the 

 disagreeable things. Compare goods, sweets, bitters. 



8, 24. " Sweet south upon a bed of violets." See Twelfth 

 Night, I, i, '5. 



8, 29. "Lehrjahre": "school-years," or "apprenticeship." 



9, 18-19. My first scientific paper. The title was On a 

 Hitherto Undescribed Structure in the Human Hair Sheath. 

 See Introduction ix. 



9, 34. Strong: presumptuous. 



10, 22. Haslar Hospital. This famous retreat for invalid 

 sailors is in Gosport, opposite Portsmouth, England. 



12, 22. Middies: abbreviation for midshipmen. 



12, 24. Suites a Buffon: "sequels to Buffon," or "continua- 

 tions of Buffon's works," a series of scientific monographs pub- 

 lished in Paris from 1834 to *%57- George Louis Leclerc Buf- 

 fon (1707-1788) was the most celebrated French naturalist of 

 the eighteenth century. He originated the phrars, " Le style 

 est de Phomme," which is usually mistranslated "The style is 

 the man." 



12, 28. Noah. See Genesis <viii, 7-8. 



12, 32. Royal Society: incorporated by Charles II in 1662. 

 Huxley became a member in 1851. See the interesting account 

 of the origin and work of this society in the lecture On the 

 Advisableness of Improving Natural Knowledge, pages 30-34. 



13, 15. Pere Goriot: a famous novel by Balzac (1799-1850). 

 13, 1 6. "A nous deux": "between us two"; that is, Lon- 

 don and I must fight it out. 



13, 19. Professor Tyndall. John Tyndall (1820-1893), 

 professor of natural history at the Royal Institution and Fellow 

 of the Royal Society, was an intimate friend of Huxley and 

 famous for his researches in heat, light, sound, and electricity. 

 See Huxley's letters to him, pages 22-24 and page 26. 



13, 28. Edward Forbes. His death in 1853 deprived Hux- 

 ley of a devoted friend who had already served him in many 

 ways. See Introduction ix-x. Huxley said of him, in 1851: 

 " He is one of the few men I have ever met to whom I can 

 feel obliged without losing a particle of independence or self- 

 respect." 



14, 9-10. On a Friday evening at the Royal Institution, 

 in 1852. The Royal Institution was incorporated by George 



