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given at the London Institution on December 4, en- 

 titled, "On Recent Additions to the Knowledge of the 

 Pedigree of the Horse." 



Huxley left New York on September 23, and his 

 visit to America must be regarded as marking the com- 

 mencement of a new stage in his career. Mr. Leonard 

 Huxley thus summarizes the nature of his reception and 

 its import : — 



" Certainly the people of the States gave him an enthusiastic 

 welcome ; his writings had made him known far and wide ; as 

 the manager of the Californian department of the Philadelphia 

 Exhibition told him, the very miners of California read his 

 books over their camp fires ; and his visit was so far like a royal 

 progress, that unless he entered a city disguised under the name 

 of Jones or Smith, he was liable not merely to be interviewed, but 

 to be called upon to ' address a few words ' to the citizens. . . . 

 His reception in America may be said to emphasize his definite 

 establishment in the first rank of English thinkers. It was a 

 signal testimony to the wide extent of his influence, hardly sus- 

 pected, indeed, by himself; an influence due above all to the 

 fact that he did not allow his studies to stand apart from the 

 moving problems of existence, but brought the new and re- 

 generating ideas into contact with life at every point, and that 

 his championship of the new doctrines had at the same time 

 been a championship of freedom and sincerity in thought and 

 word against shams and self-deceptions of every kind. It was 

 not so much the preacher of new doctrines who was welcomed, 

 as the apostle of veracity — not so much the teacher of science 

 as the teacher of men" (Life, i, p. 460). 



The lectures, etc., delivered in the States were published 

 in 1877 under the title of American Addresses. In this 

 volume was also included a lecture " On the Study of 

 Biology" (Sci. Mem., iv, xiv, p. 248. Coll. Essays, iii, 

 p. 262), given at South Kensington on December 16 

 (1876) in connection with the Loan Collection of Scien- 

 tific Apparatus. It is pointed out that the idea of estab- 

 lishing a science of life (biology), bringing together the 



