278 Thomas Henry Huxley 



write some of his most brilliant essays and to make 

 a few public appearances : at Oxford in 1893, when he 

 delivered the Romanes lecture ; at the meeting of 

 the British Association in 1894, when he spoke on the 

 vote of thanks to the President, the Marquis of Salis- 

 bury ; at the Royal Society in the same year when he 

 received the recently established "Darwin Medal." 

 Early in the spring of 1895, ^^^ ^^ad a prostrating attack 

 of influenza, and from that time until his death on June 

 29, 1895, lis was an invalid. He was buried in the 

 Marylebone cemetery at Finchley, to the north of 

 lyondon. 



Huxley was of middle stature and rather slender 

 build. His face, as Professor Ray Lankester described 

 it, was "grave, black-browed, and fiercely earnest." 

 His hair, plentiful and worn rather long, was black until 

 in old age it became silvery white. He wore short 

 side whiskers, but shaved the rest of his face, leaving 

 fully exposed an obstinate chin, and mobile lips, grim 

 and resolute in repose, but capable of relaxation into a 

 smile of almost feminine charm. 



He was a very hard worker and took little exercise. 

 Professor Howes describes a typical day as occupied by 

 lecture and laboratory work at the College of Science 

 until his hurried luncheon ; then a cab-drive to the 

 Home Office for his work as Inspector of Fisheries ; 

 then a cab home for an hour's work before dinner, and 

 the evening after dinner spent in literary work or scien- 

 tific reading. While at work, his whole attention was 

 engrossed, and he disliked being disturbed. This ab- 

 straction of his attention is illustrated humorously by 

 a story told by one of his demonstrators. Huxle}' was 

 engaged in the investigations required for his book on 

 the Cravfish, and his demonstrator came in to ask a 



