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LIFE OF PROFESSOR HUXLEY 



ture : Blauvelt's " Modern 

 Skepticism," 117 ; the Forbes 

 controversy : British Associa- 

 tion at Belfast, 128 ; excuses for 

 undertal<in;,' unnecessary work : 

 subject of Belfast address, 130 ; 

 Spinoza memorial : pay at Edin- 

 burgh : possible sons-in-law, 

 182 ; examines micro-organisms, 

 185 ; offers to lecture for : 

 " bottled life," 234 ; on his 

 daughter's recovery, 248 ; to 

 take Boyle in English Men of 

 Science Series, 258 ; o\m capacity 

 as an editor : Clifford's illness, 

 259; begs him to avoid "ava- 

 lanches of work," 2C0 ; friend- 

 ship and criticism, apropos of 

 science review in Nineteenth 

 Century, 285 ; a confession, 350 

 dinner in honour of, iii. 25, 27 ; 

 Lord Granville's sarcastic sweet- 

 ness, 26 ; confused with him in 

 the popular mind, 157; Tenny- 

 son's funeral, 270 ; effect of in- 

 fluenza : addresses at Oxford : 

 dying by inches, 296 



" Universities, Actual and Ideal," 



ii. 122 sq. 

 University, Johns Hopkins, address 



at: "Trustees have sometimes 



made a palace and called it a 



university," ii. 208, 209 

 ideal of, iii. 228-232 ; government 



by professors only, 233 n. 

 Use-inlieritance,disbelief in, iii. 172 ; 



in plants, 173 



Variation, the key to the Darwinian 

 theory, i. 328 



Varigny, H. de, letters to — his essays 

 translated into French : love of 

 his native tongue, iii. 202 ; later 

 volume not interesting to French 

 public : experimental proof of 

 specific infertility, 203 



Vermes, a zoological lumber-room, 

 i. 84, 189 



Vestiges of Creation, i. 241, 242 



Vesuvius, ascent of, ii. 75 



Virchow, Professor (in Huxley 

 lecture), influence of the Rattle- 

 snake voyage), i. 80; on Huxley's 

 ethnological work, 287 

 at Medical Congress, ii. 308 



Vivisection, ii. 153 557. ; Lord 

 Shaftesbury's charj,'es, 154 sq. ; 

 W. E. Forster and South Ken- 

 sington lectures, 158 sq. ; per- 



sonal feelings on, 163, 170, 172 ; 

 Bills, 167 sq., 173 ; fox-hunting 

 legislators, 167 ; experiment and 

 original research, 169 ; Commis- 

 sion on, 170 ; Harvey article, 

 234, 241 



Vogt, Karl, i. 230 



Von Willemoes Suhm and Ceylon 

 Museum, ii. 80 



Wace, Dr., attacks agnosticism, iii. 

 105 sq. 



Wales, H.B.H., Prince of, admitted 

 to Royal Society, ii. 318 ; unveils 

 Darwin statue, 422 



Walker, Alfred, letter to — local 

 museums, i. 196 



Walking, his holiday recreation, i. 

 207, 323, 324 



Wallace, A. R., starts Darwin, i. 

 230, 239, 245 

 Civil List pension, ii. 282 

 Letter from — friendship with 

 Huxlev, iii. 372 



Waller, Mrs. F. W., letters to— 

 numbers at Edinburgh lectures : 

 suggests a new friend, ii. 179 ; 

 Afghan War of 1878 : Indian 

 Empire a curse, 241 ; avoidance 

 of congresses, 250 ; acceptance 

 of P.K.S., 339; portrait at 

 the Royal Academy : family 

 news, 353 ; loss of her child, 444 

 a Christmas function, iii. 407 



Walpole, Sir Spencer, ii. 293 sq., 303 ; 

 on Huxley as Fishery Inspector, 

 293-299 ; kindness from, in Italy, 

 404, 406 



Walpole, Sir Spencer H., Vivisection 

 Bill, ii. 167 



Ward, Dr., his former examiner, 

 passed over in favour of Huxley 

 for Royal Society, i. 139 



Ward, T. H., visit to, iii. 133 



Ward, Mrs. T. H., letter to— thanks 

 for Robert Elsmere, iii. 64 



Ward, W., table-talk of Huxley, 

 especially on the Foundations 0/ 

 Belief, iii. 353 ; other remini- 

 scences of his talk, 401, 403 



Ward, W. G., in Metaphysical 

 Society, i. 453, 456, 461, 462 

 saying about Mill's opinions, ii. 2 



Warwick, lectures at, i. 222 



Water-Babies, The, i. 277 

 letter to his grandson about, iii. 

 413 



Waugh, Rev. Benjamin, impression 

 of Huxley on the School Board, 

 ii. 44 sq. 



