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scientific or educational commissions. In 1870 he was elected 

 member of the London School Board; and in 1872 the Uni- 

 versity of Aberdeen, which some twenty years before had 

 rejected him as a professor, elected him Lord Rector. In 

 1876 he visited the United States, and gave the inaugural 

 address at Johns Hopkins University. In that memorable 

 oration he delivered this challenge to the American people: 

 "I am not in the slightest degree impressed by your big- 

 ness or your material resources, as such. Size is not grandeur ; 

 territory does not make a nation. The great issue, about 

 which hangs a true sublimity, and the terror of overhanging 

 fate, is, 'What are you going to do with all these things?' 

 ... The one condition of success, your sole safeguard, is 

 the moral and intellectual clearness of the individual citizen. " 



In 1871 he was made Secretary of the Royal Society, and 

 in 1883 its President. In 1879 he received from Cambridge 

 the degree of LL.D. ; and in 1885 that of D.C.L. from Ox- 

 ford. He retired on a pension in 1885 ; but scientific honors 

 still came to him, the Copley Medal of the Royal Society 

 in 1888, the Romanes Lectureship at Oxford in 1893, and the 

 Darwin Medal of the Royal Society in 1894. In 1892 he was 

 called by Queen Victoria to the Privy Council. He died at 

 Eastbourne, June 29, 1895. 



Concerning Huxley's appearance and personality, Mr 

 G. W. Smalley wrote as follows in Scribner's Magazine for 

 October, 1895: "The square forehead, the square jaw, 

 the tense lines of the mouth, the deep flashing dark eyes, the 

 impression of something more than strength he gave you, 

 an impression of sincerity, of solid force, of immovability, yet 

 with the gentleness arising from the serene consciousness of 

 his strength all this belonged to Huxley and to him alone. 

 The first glance magnetized his audience. The eyes were 

 those of one accustomed to command, of one having authority, 

 and not fearing on occasion to use it. The hair swept care- 



