CHAPTER VII 



WORK AT MANCHESTER (continued), 1872-80 



British Association, Liverpool and Dublin Post at Bart's Eclipse 

 Expedition, Sicily Noxious Vapours Commission Paris Exhibition, 

 1878 French Men of Science Owens College Jubilee of Chemical 

 Society Society of Chemical Industry The University of 

 Manchester. 



THE autumn of 1870 was rendered scientifically 

 memorable by the fact that Huxley held the post of 

 Commander-in-Chief of the Army of British Science 

 at the Association meeting in Liverpool. His 

 presidential address concerning the mighty actions of 

 the infinitely small is an example of what such a 

 discourse should be. I acted as one of his general 

 staff and presided over the Section of Chemistry. In 

 my address I referred to the outbreak of the Franco- 

 German War, into which the two most scientific nations 

 of the Continent were then plunged, and in which even 

 the professors of chemistry and their pupils took a 

 humane part. I called attention to the influence which 

 the brotherly intercourse of those interested in the 

 progress of science and its applications all the world 

 over exerts in appeasing animosities so fatal to the 

 welfare of humanity such as those of which we were 

 then the spectators. 



About the same time I put forward a proposal to 

 form a National Science Union, which should have 

 for its object to secure the common action both of men 



