8 Thomas Henry Huxley 



duritig- the course of it, the yoiinj^ medical students 

 "walked" a hospital. This consisted in attending 

 the demonstrations of the physicians and surgeons in 

 the wards of the hospital and in pursuing anatomical, 

 chemical, and physiological study in the medical school 

 attached to the hospital. A large fee was charged for 

 the complete course, but at many of the hospitals there 

 were entrance scholarships which relieved those who 

 gained them of all cost. In 1842 Huxley and his elder 

 brother, James, applied for such free scholarships at 

 Charing Cross Hospital. There is no record in the 

 books of the hospital as to what persons supported the 

 application. The entry in the minutes for September 

 6, 1842, states that 



"Applications from the following gentlemen (including the 

 two sous of Mr. George Huxley, late senior assistant master in 

 Ealing School), were laid before the meeting, and their testi- 

 monials being approved of, it was decided that those gentlemen 

 should be admitted as free scholars, if their classical attain- 

 ments should be found upon examination to be satisfactory." 



It appears that the two Huxleys were able to satisfy 

 the probably unexactiug demands of the classical ex- 

 aminers, for they began their hospital work in October 

 of the same year. 



Those who know the magnificent laboratories and 

 lecture-rooms which have grown up in connection with 

 the larger London hospitals must have difficulty in 

 realising the humble arrangements for teaching stu- 

 dents in the early forties. What endowments there 

 were — and Charing Cross was never a richly endowed 

 hospital — were devoted entirely to the hospital as 

 opposed to the teaching school. There were no sep- 

 arate buildings for anatomy, physiology, and so forth. 



