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arranged in order and registered), most of tliem of the 

 nude figure standing erect, with the arm extended against 

 a scale. A desultory correspondence proves that in con- 

 nection with these he was in treaty with British residents 

 and agents all over the world, with the Admiralty and 

 naval officers, and that all was being done with a fixed 

 idea in view. He was clearly contemplating something 

 exhaustive and definite which he never fulfilled, and the 

 method is now the more interesting from its being 

 essentially the same as that recently and independently 

 adopted by Mortillet. 



Beyond this, your father's notes reveal numerous other 

 indications of matters and phases of activity, of great 

 interest in their bearings on the history and progress of 

 contemporary investigation, but these are of a detailed 

 and wholly technical order. 



APPENDIX II 



His administrative work as an officer of the Royal 

 Society is described in the following note by Sir 

 Joseph Hooker : — 



Mr. Huxley was appointed Joint-Secretary of the 

 Eoyal Society, November .30, 1871, in succession to Dr. 

 Sharpey, Sir George Airy being President, and Professor 

 (now Sir George) Stokes, Senior Secretary. He held the 

 office till November 30, 1880. The duties of the office 

 are manifold and heavy ; they include attendance at all 

 the meetings of the Fellows, and of the councils, com- 

 mittees, and sub-committees of the Society, and especially 

 the supervision of the printing and illustrating all papers 

 on biological subjects that are published in the Society's 

 Transactions and Proceedings : the latter often involving 

 a protracted correspondence with the authors. To this 



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