INDEX 



497 



stone as controversialist, 435 ; 

 nature and suffering, 430 

 historians and practical dis- 

 cipline : an antagonist "rouses 

 his corruption," iii. 50 ; the 

 Casket Letters, 87 ; retirement 

 from London, 195 ; limitations 

 of the Romanes Lecture, 301 ; 

 mending the irremediable, 302 



Skull, theory of the Vertebrate, i. 

 204 ; further investigations, 222, 

 327 



Slavery, i. 363 



Smalley, G. W., Huxley in New York 

 harbour, ii. 201 

 description of him as a lecturer, 

 iii. 383 ; his friends and talk, 392 



Smith, Robertson, at a; Club, 1. 372 



Smith, Sir William, i. 357 ; and In- 

 ternational College, 389 

 effect of the name " vivisection," 

 ii. 153 



Smith, Right Hon. W. H., Bible- 

 reading in Schools, ii. 31 



Smyth, W. Warington, i. 202 

 death of, iii. 160 



Snakes, lecture on, ii. 262 



Socialism, State, and natural selec- 

 tion, iii. 171 



Societies and ladies, i. 306 



Society and societies, ii. 4 



Society for the propagation of com- 

 mon honesty, i. 288 



Society of Arts, speech at, ii. 221 



Speaker, the insinuations of, rebuked, 

 iii. 178 



Species and sterility, i. 344 



Spectator, on " Pope Huxley," ii. 7 



Spedding, James, influence of Hux- 

 ley's accuracy in style, i. 429 

 Letter from — on Bacon, ii. 239; 

 Bacon's influence compared ivith 

 Huxley's, 240 



Spencer, Herbert, and evolution, i. 

 242; joins x Club, 371, 376; 

 fondness for music, 334 ; philo- 

 .sophy, 349 ; on Comte, 434 

 "devil's advocate" to, ii. 18, 359 ; 

 his comparison of the body 

 politic to the body physical 

 criticised, 54; criticises "Ad- 

 ministrative Nihilism," 69 ; con- 

 troversy not inconsistent with 

 friendship, 94 ; a regular New 

 Year's guest, 98, 234 ;"his philo- 

 sophy found wanting by a 

 youthful Punjaubee, 323 

 vigour of, iii. 54 ; philosophical op- 

 position to, 55, 56 ; correspond- 

 ence on absolute ethics, 135, 



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136, 144 ; psychology based on 

 use-inheritance, 172 ; frankness 

 to. S71 ; plays racquets with, 

 389 ; authority on music, 391 

 Letters from — will not break 

 through custom of sending him 

 proofs, ii. 442 ; urges him to 

 answer Lilly, 470 ; sends proofs 

 to him as an " omnivorous 

 reader," 470 (cp. iii. 387) 

 Letters to — his review of the 

 Archetype, i. 230 ; First Prin- 

 ciples, 307, 309 ; distention of 

 birds' air-cells during flight, ib. ; 

 animals and plants : Tyndall's 

 favourite problem : "gyno- 

 pathy," 332 ; patience in dis- 

 cussions, 401 

 dry facts only at Edinburgh lec- 

 tures : Moses and a visit to town, 

 ii. ISO; on George Eliot and 

 Westminster Abbey, 286 ; thanks 

 for his photograpli, 329 ; ac- 

 ceptance of P.R.S., 339 ; on 

 Creation controversy, 426 ; in- 

 fluence of conditions, 443 ; reads 

 proofs of his Autobiography, 

 452 ; use-inheritance, ib. ; dis- 

 inclined to reply to Mr. Lilly, 

 470 ; the plot succeeds, 471 ; his 

 own boyhood, ib. ; reply to Mr. 

 Lilly: abuse of the word "Law": 

 Victorian science, 472 

 Imperial Institute, iii. 3 ; death of 

 his daughter, 44 ; retrospect of 

 their first meeting : clears up 

 possible misunderstandingabout 

 London Liberty League, 49 ; a 

 visit to, postponed : defensive 

 position in controversy, 51 ; for- 

 getfulness of past events : a 

 sweeping criticism, 52 ; jests on 

 his recent activity : himself 

 unlike Samson, 65 ; some con- 

 solation for old age, 71 (bis) ; 

 return from Maloja, 81 



Sphinx Club, Liverpool, dinner to 

 Huxley, ii. 21 



Spinoza, memorial to, ii. 182 

 debt to, iii. 303, 398 



Spiritualism, experiments in, ii. 143 ; 

 if true, an additional argument 

 against suicide, 144 ; report on 

 seance, ib. sq. 



Spirula, work on, ii. 114, 244, 262 ; 

 iii. 279, 303 sq. 



Spitzbergen, fossils from, i. 411 



Spontaneous generation and Darwin- 

 ism, i. 352 ; ii. 14 sq. ; recipe 

 for, 17 



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