30 THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY 



The Hcathorns arrived in England in May 1855* ^^^^ 

 though unfortunately Miss Hcathorn's feeble health gave 

 cause for great anxiety, her marriage took place on the 

 following July 21, the summer being spent in Tenby. 

 Even during the honeymoon Huxley busied himself with 

 observations on a submerged forest at Amroth, and with 

 other scientific work. At that time Darwin seems scarcely 

 to have realized his pre-eminently strenuous nature, for he 

 wrote, " I hope your marriage will not make you idle; 

 happiness, I fear, is not good for work." A warning 

 of opposite kind would have been much more to the 

 point. 



Huxley's method of preparing lectures affords a good 

 illustration of his indefatigable industry, in response to 

 the prompting of a high ideal. Not content merely 

 with acquainting himself with the relative literature, 

 nor satisfied with his own unusually extensive know- 

 ledge, he took a vast amount of pains to acquire a 

 first-hand acquaintance with facts from one end of 

 the animal kingdom to the other. His lectures, in 

 short, often involved a considerable amount of original 

 investigation. 



The following scientific memoirs require mention 

 here : — 



I. " Contributions to the Anatomy of the Brachiopoda" 

 (Proc. Roy. Soc, vii, 1B54-5, pp. 106-17, 241-2, Sci. 

 Mem., i, xxxii, p. 325)- — The ancient group of "lamp- 

 shells," of which the members possess a bivalve shell that 

 suggests a relationship to molluscs, is still one that pre- 

 sents many problems for solution, and naturally presented 

 still more in the early fifties. The memoir embodies 

 some very careful anatomical work, and throws doubt 

 upon the interpretation of certain organs as " hearts," 

 doubt that has since been fully justified, for the organs 



