32 BIOLOGICAL LECTURES. 



Huxley leading slowly down the long narrow room, pointing 

 out the especial methods of teaching which he had originated 

 and which are now universally adopted in England and in this 

 country. Darwin was instantly recognized by the class as he 

 entered, and a thrill of curiosity passed down the room, for no 

 one present had ever even seen him before. I remember my own 

 feelings very distinctly. I was just finishing a laborious dissec- 

 tion of the lobster's nervous system, and out of politeness and 

 deference to laboratory discipline, pretended to continue my 

 work, with results fatal to the nervous system of the crustacean. 

 As the pair came back up the room Huxley singled me out, I 

 suppose because I was the only foreign student, and introduced 

 me to Darwin, the greatest kindness he could have shown a 

 young student. There was the widest possible contrast in the 

 two faces. Darwin's grayish- white hair and bushy eyebrows 

 overshadowed the pair of deeply set blue eyes, which seemed 

 to image his wonderfully calm and deep vision of nature, and 

 at the same time to emit benevolence. Huxley's piercing 

 black eyes and determined and resolute face were full of 

 admiration and at the same time protection of his older friend. 

 He said afterwards : " You know I have to take care of him - 

 in fact, I have always been Darwin's bull-dog," and this exactly 

 expressed one of the many relations which existed so long 

 between the two men. 



Huxley was not always fortunate in the intellectual caliber 

 of the men to whom he lectured in the Royal School of Mines. 

 Many of the younger generation were studying in the univer- 

 sities, under Balfour at Cambridge and under Rolleston at 

 Oxford. However, Saville Kent, C. Lloyd Morgan, George B. 

 Howes, T. Jeffrey Parker, and W. Newton Parker are repre- 

 sentative biologists who were wholly trained by Huxley. Many 

 others, not his students, have expressed the deepest indebted- 

 ness to him. Among these, especially, are Prof. E. Ray 

 Lankester, of Oxford, and Prof. Michael Foster, of Cambridge. 

 Huxley once said that he had "discovered Foster." He not 

 only singled men out, but knew how to direct and inspire them 

 to investigate the most pressing problems of the day. As it 

 was, his thirty-one years of lectures would have produced a far 



