I70 THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY 



The main report of the Commission and Huxley's own 

 minority report are explained, and exception taken to the 

 idea of compensation contained in the former. This 

 would mean penalizing the competent bodies and per- 

 petually endowing the "black sheep" to an amount 

 " calculated on the maximum of their ill-gained profits." 



The address advocated an extension of curriculum, 

 centralizing the instruction given in the earlier part of 

 the student's course, and the endowment of medical 

 research. 



Three scientific memoirs bear date 1882 : — 



1. " A Contribution to the Pathology of the Epidemic 

 known as the ' Salmon Disease ' " (Proc. Roy. Soc, xxxiii, 

 1882, pp. 381-9. Read March 2, 1882. Sci. Mem., iv, 

 XXX, p. 520). 



2. " On Saprolegnia in relation to the Salmon Disease " 

 (Q. J. Micros. Sci., New Sen, xxii, 1882, pp. 311-33 : 

 extracted from the twenty-first Annual Report of H.M.'s 

 Inspectors of Sea Fisheries. Sci. Mem., iv, xxxii, p. 540). 

 — This and the preceding were the result of much patient 

 work carried out by Huxley in his capacity as a Fishery 

 Inspector. Saprolegnia is a parasitic fungus, a species 

 of which attacks the skin of the salmon, causing sore 

 patches. 



3. ''On the Respiratory Organs of Apteryx" (Proc. 

 Zool. Soc, 1 882, pp. S^°-9- Read June 20, 1882. Sci. 

 Mem,, iv, xxxi, p. 529). — Apteryx is the scientific name 

 for the " kiwi," the smallest existing species of running 

 bird, indigenous to New Zealand. 



1883. 



The death of Spottiswoode in June of this year made 

 the first break in the x Club, which had existed for 



