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nominated to the service. In a letter to hira Huxley- 

 described the investigations which he desired to con- 

 tinue as being chiefly those on " the anatomy of certain 

 Gasteropod and Pteropod Mollusca, of Firola and At- 

 lantis, of Salpa and Pyrosoma, of two new Ascidians, 

 namely, Appendicularia and Doliolum, of Sagitta and 

 certain Annelids, of the auditory and circulatory organs 

 of certain transparent Crustacea, and of the Medusae 

 and Polyps." His request was granted, and for the 

 next three years Huxley lived in London with his 

 brother, on the exiguous income of an assistant-sur- 

 geon, and devoted himself to research. He became 

 almost at once of the first rank among English anato- 

 mists. The result of the paper on Medusae in the Trans- 

 actions of the Royal Society was that he was elected a 

 Fellow of the Society on June 5, 185 1, and a year later 

 received a Royal Medal of the Society. He made many 

 warm friendships both among the older and the younger 

 generations of scientific men. In his obituary notice 

 of Huxley, Sir Michael Foster wrote: 



" By Edward Forbes, in whose nature there was much that 

 was akin to his own, and with whom he had some acquaint- 

 ance before his voyage, he was at once greeted as a comrade, 

 and with Joseph Dalton Hooker, to whom he was drawn at the 

 very first by their common experience as navy surgeons, he 

 began an attachment which, strengthened by like biological 

 aspirations, grew closer as their lives went on. In the first 

 year after his return, in the autumn of 1851, he made the ac- 

 quaintance of John Tyndall at the meeting of the British Asso- 

 ciation at Ipswich, and the three. Hooker, Huxley, and Tyndall, 

 finding how much in common were all their scientific views 

 and desires, formed then and there a triple scientific alliance." 



Repeated efforts were made by these three, and by more 

 influential friends, to induce the Admiralty to contrib- 

 ute to the expense of publishing Huxley's scientific 



