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draw on the blackboard with admiralile facility, wliile he 

 was talking, his rapid, dexterous strokes quickly building 

 up an orgauism in our minds, simultaneously through 

 ear and eje. The lecture over, he was ever ready to 

 answer questions, and I often admired his patience in 

 explaining points which there was no excuse for any one 

 not having understood. 



Still more was I struck with the great pleasure 

 which he showed when he saw that some special points 

 of his teaching had not only been comprehended, but had 

 borne fruit, by their suggestiveness in an appreciative 

 mind. 



To one point I desire specially to bear witness. 

 There were persons who dreaded sending young men to him, 

 fearing lest their young friends' religious beliefs should 

 be upset by what they might hear said. For years I 

 attended his lectures, but never once did I hear him make 

 use of his position as a teacher to inculcate, or even 

 hint at, liis own theological views, or to depreciate or 

 assail what might be supposed to be the religion of his 

 hearers. No one could have behaved more loyally in 

 that respect, and a proof that I thought so is that I sub- 

 sequently sent my own son to be his pupil at South 

 Kensington, where his experience confirmed what had 

 previously been my owm. 



As to science, I learnt more from him in two years than 

 I had acquired in any previous decade of biological study. 



The picture is completed by Professor Howes 

 in the Students' Magazine of the Koyal College of 

 Science : — 



As a class lect^irer Huxley was facile princeps, and 

 only those who were privileged to sit under him can form 

 a conception of his delivery. Clear, deliberate, never 

 hesitant nor unduly emphatic, never repetitional, always 

 logical, his every word told. Great, however, as were his 



