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the grippe, which passed into pneumonia. He rallied once or 

 twice, and his last effort to complete a reply to Balfour's 

 " Foundations of Belief " hastened his death, which came upon 

 June 29, at the age of seventy. 



I have endeavored to show in how many ways Huxley was a 

 model for us of the younger generation. In the central hall of 

 the British Museum of Natural History sits in marble the life- 

 size figure of Charles Darwin. Upon his right will soon be 

 placed a beautiful statue of Richard Owen ; and I know that 

 there are many who will enjoy taking some share in the 

 movement to complete this group with the noble figure of 

 Thomas Henry Huxley. 



