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for the publication and distribution of the enormous 

 collections brought home by the above-named expedition. 

 It is not too much to say that Mr. Huxley had a voice in 

 every detail of these publications. The sittings of the 

 Committee of Publication of the Challenger Expedition 

 collections (of which Sir J. D. Hooker was chairman, and 

 Mr. Huxley the most active member) were protracted from 

 1876 to 1895, and resulted in the publication of fifty 

 royal quarto volumes, with plates, maps, sections, etc., the 

 work of seventy-six authors, every shilling of the expendi- 

 ture on which (some £50,000) was passed under the 

 authority of the Committee of Publication. 



Nor was Mr. Huxley less actively interested in the 

 domestic affairs of the Society. In 1873 the whole 

 establishment was translated from the building subse- 

 quently occupied by the Eoyal Academy to that which 

 it now inhabits in the same quadrangle ; a flitting of 

 library stuff and appurtenances involving great responsi- 

 bilities on the officers for the satisfactory re-establishment 

 of the whole institution. In 1874 a very important 

 alteration of the bye-laws was effected, whereby that 

 which gave to Peers the privilege of being proposed for 

 election as Fellows, without previous selection by the 

 Committee (and to which bye-laws, as may be supposed, 

 Mr. Huxley was especially repugnant), was replaced by 

 one restricting that privilege to Privy Councillors. In 

 1875 he actively supported a proposition for extending 

 the interests taken in the Society by holding annually a 

 reception, to which the lady friends of the Fellows who 

 were interested in science should be invited to inspect an 

 exhibition of some of the more recent inventions, appli- 

 ances, and discoveries in science. And in the same year 

 another reform took place in which he was no less 

 interested, which was the abolition of the entrance fees for 

 ordinary Fellows, which had proved a bar to the coming 

 forward of men of small incomes, but great eminence. 

 The loss of income to the Society from this was met by a 



