CONTENTS 



Preface 



I'AGE 



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CHAPTER I 



FROM SCHOOL TO LIFE-WORK 



Birth — Parentage — School-days — Choice of Medical 

 Profession — Charing Cross Hospital — End of Medical 

 Studies — Admission to Naval Medical Service. 



CHAPTER II 



THE VOYAGE OF THE "RATTLESNAKE" 



The Objects of the Voyage — The Route — The Na- 

 turalist and the Surgeon — Collecting and Dredging— 

 Stay in Sydney — Adventures with the Natives — Com- 

 parison with Darwin's Voyage on the Beagle. 



CHAPTER III 



FLOATING CREATURES OF THE SEA 



The Nature of Floating Life — Memoir on Medusee 

 Accepted by the Royal Society — Old and New Ideas 

 of the Animal Kingdom — What Huxley Discovered 

 in Medusae 

 Embryos. 



- His Comparison of them with Vertebrate 



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