INDEX 



521 



Scottish University Commission, 

 511; spring in Edinburgh, 512; 

 article in the Echo, ib.; Bright's 

 speeches, ib. ; greatness of Reau- 

 mur: speech on Darwin's LL.D., 

 515; Prof. Marsh's arrival, 530. 



Fishery duties, ii. 29 sq., 31; In- 

 ternational Medical Congress, 35; 

 proposed resignation, 86; his stay 

 at Ilkley, 137 sq.; publication of 

 Science and Morals, 156; effect of 

 Ilkley, ib.; from Savernake, 175; 

 from the Canaries, 269 sq. ; cere- 

 mony of kissing hands, as P.C., 

 348; good health in 1893, 385. 



Huxley, Thomas, grandfather of T. 

 H. Huxley, i. i. 



Huxley, T. H., incident at his birth, 

 i. 3; his mother, likeness to, ib. ; 

 devotion to, 4; his childhood, ib. ; 

 faculty for drawing, 4, 46, 397, 447; 

 school-days, 5 (cp. ii. 155, 280 

 sq.); early studies, 6-9; blood- 

 poisoning, 8; learns German, 9; 

 boyish journal, 10 sqq. ; at Rother- 

 hithe, ii, 16; impressed by social 

 problems, 16; studies botany, 18; 

 wins a medal, 20; at Charing 

 Cross Hospital, 21, 22, 23; his 

 first discovery, 23; interview 

 with Faraday, ib. ; career deter- 

 mined by Fayrer and Ransom, 

 25, 271, ii. 142; enters the Navy, 

 i. 25; joins the Rattlesnake, 26; 

 his life on the Rattlesnake, 28 sq. ; 

 at Madeira, 33; Rio, ib. ; cross- 

 ing the line, 34; the first fruits 

 of the voyage, 36; at the Cape, 

 ib.; Mauritius, 37; Sydney, 38; 

 engaged to be married, 40; im- 

 portance of his work on the Me- 

 dusae, 42 43; among the Aus- 

 tralian aborigines, 45; with Ken- 

 nedy, 45, 48; writes " Science at 

 Sea," 50; leaves Australia, 56; 

 impression of missionaries in 

 New Zealand, ib. ; at the Falk- 

 lands, 57; position in Navy, 59; 

 returns home, 60; scientific recog- 

 nition of, 70; early friends in 

 London, 71; difficulties, 72, 75, 

 89-92; elected F.R.S., 72-74; 

 misses the Royal Medal, 75; deal- 



ings of the Government with, 

 about his Rattlesnake work, 77 sq., 

 108, 127; list of early papers, 81, 

 82; stands for various professor- 

 ships, 83-87, 108; leaves the Navy, 

 81 ; writes for the Westminster Re- 

 view, 92; delivers the Fullerian 

 Lectures, 93, 314; succeeds Forbes, 

 93; describes the scientific world 

 of 1851,99; jealousy of, 104, 105; his 

 first lecture, 106-108; receives the 

 Royal Society's Medal, 109, in, 

 114 (see also 268); morning inca- 

 pacity, 113; people he can deal 

 with, 115; lives by his pen, 116, 

 129; obtains a post in the School 

 of Mines, 117; and on the Geo- 

 logical Survey, 118; openness of 

 dealing with his friends, Hooker 

 and Forbes, 119; Carpenter, 121; 

 about a rejected memoir, 121 (see 

 also ii. 187, 195, 200) ; refuses un- 

 certain position at Edinburgh, 

 123; prefers a scientific career in 

 London, 123, 125, 126, 129, 130, 

 !33> I 35'y his principle of "hav- 

 ing a row at starting," 130; mar- 

 riage, 139 sq. ; early work on the 

 Invertebrata interrupted, 143; 

 paleontological work, 143; Brit- 

 ish Museum Collections, 144; on 

 the value of a hundred a year, 

 150; tries to organise a scientific 

 review, 150, 225 sq. (see Natural 

 History Review) ; his wish to be- 

 come a physiologist, 151; writes 

 on the Cell Theory and the Skull, 

 152; ill-health during the fifties, 

 154; tour in Switzerland, 155 sq. ; 

 ascends Mont Blanc, 157, 170; 

 work on glaciers, 155, 158; bal- 

 ance-sheet of work in 1857, 159; 

 apparent desultoriness of his ear- 

 lier work, 160; begins the sys- 

 tematic consultation of foreign 

 writers, 160; recognition abroad, 

 ib.; birth of his son Noel, 162; 

 his aim in life, 162; death of his 

 son, 163; position in 1858, 169; 

 ambition, 170; translation and lec- 

 turing, 171; money and marriage, 

 174; paleontology and anatomy, 

 175; loss of priority through delay 



