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NATURE 



[May 3, 1900 



worship of I sis attracted large numbers to her temple, 

 and the principal services took place before daybreak. 

 The curtains were drawn aside and the statue of the 

 goddess was presented to her worshippers, who straight- 

 way prayed to her ; an hour after sunrise a hymn was 

 sung to the rising sun, typified by Harpocrates, and the 

 service was over. The second service of the day was 

 held two hours after noon, and it seems to have consisted 

 in the adoration of water in a vessel which was supposed 

 to have been taken from the Nile. Whatever the details 

 may have been, the services certainly had reference to 

 scenes connected with the finding of the dead body of 

 Osiris by his wife Isis, and they were intended to urge 

 the beholder to renounce the present life and to prepare 

 for a second birth into a purified and beatified state ot 

 existence in a new world. The temple of Isis at Pompeii 

 is a remarkable relic of the adoption of a remarkable 

 religion by the Romans, and we hope that Prof. Mau will 

 add any new facts which he may glean from subsequent 

 researches to the future editions of his work. The second 

 part of Prof. Mau's volume deals with the houses of 

 Pompeii, and it seems to us to be the best in the book, 

 for it recalls the scenes and occurrences in the daily 

 household life of the Pompeians in a most realistic 

 fashion. The mind's eye has so many facts supplied to 

 it with such lucid explanations that a street of houses 

 appears before it without fatigue, and as the result of but 

 little effort. Parts iii.-vi. deal with trades and occupa- 

 tions, the tombs, Pompeian art and inscriptions ; the 

 chapters of these sections are written in the same easy 

 style, but at the same time the reader feels that he is 

 being led along an interesting path by the hand of a 

 master of his craft. 



THE UNVEILING OF THE HUXLEY 

 MEMORIAL STATUE. 



'y HE statue, by Mr. Onslow Ford, R.A., of the late 

 -■- Right Hon. Thomas Henry Huxley, now placed in 

 the first right-hand recess of the Great Hall of the 

 Natural History Museum, was unveiled by H.R.H. the 

 Prince of Wales on Saturday last, April 28, the ceremony 

 being performed, by his Royal Highness's desire, imme- 

 diately after the meeting of the Trustees appointed for 

 that day. 



Seating accommodation had been provided for the 

 Huxley family, the Trustees of the British Museum, the 

 members of the Memorial Committee, and other dis- 

 tinguished guests and chief subscribers to the Memorial 

 Fund, in front of the statue ; and a still greater number 

 of persons, most of whom were subscribers also, assembled 

 in the corrijlors overlooking the Great Hall, and on the 

 staircases. 



There were from 700 to 800 persons present, adequately 

 representative of all branches of science, art, law, music, 

 and politics, and of several foreign nations. The following 

 is a classified list of the persons more directly concerned 

 in the ceremony : — 



Trustees of the British Museum. 



Executive Committee of the Memorial Fund and others. 



H.R.H. the Prince of Wales. 



Earl of Elgin, K.G. 



Earl of Hopetoun. 



Viscount Cross. 



The Bishop of Winchester. 



The Lord Walsingham. 



The Right Hon. Sir George 



Trevelyan, Bart. 

 The Right Hon. John Morley, 



M.P. 

 Sir Nathaniel Lindley, Master 



of the Rolls. 



Dr. W. S. Church, President 

 of the Royal College of 

 Physicians. 



The Rev. F. H. Annesley. 



Mr. Cavendish-Bentinck. 



The Duke of Devonshire, K.G. 



Lord Russell of Killowen. 



Lord Avebury. 



Viscount Peel. 



Viscount Dillon. 



Sir John Evans, K.C.B. 



Sir Richard Webster. 



Lord Shand (Chairman). 



Sir Joseph Fayrer, Bart., 



K.C.S.I., F.R.S. 

 Sir Henry Thompson, Bart. 

 Sir Joseph Hooker, G.C.S.L, 



C.B., F.R.S. 

 Sir John Donnelly, K.C.B. 

 Sir Norman Lockyer, K.C.B., 



F R S 

 Sir Michael Foster, K.C.B., 



M. P., F.R.S. 

 Sir Spencer Walpole, K.C.B. 

 Sir A. Geikie, F.R.S. 

 Mr. Briton Riviere, R.A. 



Among other persons who 

 enclosure were the following ; 



SirF. Abel, Bart, F.R.S. 

 Prof. T. Clifford AUbutt, 



M.D., F.R.S. 

 Sir L. Alma-Tadema, R.A. 

 Sir Edwin Arnold, K.C.LE., 



C.S.L 

 The Attorney- General. 

 Mr. Alfred Austin. 

 Sir Squire Bancroft. 

 Hon. Edmund Barton, Q.C. 

 Prof. Bastian, F.R.S. 

 Sir Lowthian Bell, Bart. , F. R. S. 

 Mr. Horace Brown, F.R.S. 

 Sir T. Lauder Brunton, M.D., 



F.R.S. 

 Rt. Hon. L. Courtney, M.P. 

 Sir Wm. Crookes, K.C.B., 



F.R.S. 

 Mr. Francis Darwin, F.R.S. 

 The Earl of Ducie, F.R.S. 

 Sir W. Thiselton • Dyer, 



K.C.M.G., F.R.S. 

 Mr. R. Etheridge, F.R.S. 

 Prof, J. B. Farmer, M.A. 

 Lady Flower. 



Prof. Le Neve Foster, F.R.S. 

 Dr. R. Garnett, C.B. 

 Dr. J. H. Gladstone, F.R.S. 

 Lieut. -Col. Godwin- Austen, 



F.R.S. 

 Dr. A. Giinther, F.R.S. 

 Mr. G. Henschel. 



Dr. P. L. Sclater, F.R.S. 



Prof. G. B. Howes, F.R.S. 

 (Hon. Secretary). 



Mrs. Huxley and members of 

 the Huxley family, to the 

 number of thirty-two. 



Sir E. Maunde Thompson and 

 Officers of the British 

 Museum, Bloomsbury. 



Prof. E. Ray Lankester, the 

 Director, and the Officers of 

 the British Museum (Natural 

 History). 



were seated in the central 



Lord Hobhouse, K.C.S.I., 



CLE. 

 Prof. Victor Horsley, F.R.S. 

 Prof.J.W.Judd,C.B.,F.R.S. 

 Right Hon. W. E. H. Lecky, 



M.P. 

 Sir Hugh Low, G.C.M.G. 

 Dr. P. Manson. 

 Dr. Ludwig Mond, F.R.S. 

 Prof. R. Meldola, F.R.S. 

 Sir Francis Mowatt, K.C.B. 

 Sir Andrew Noble, K.C.B., 



F.R.S. 

 Admiral Sir Erasmus Omman- 



ney, Bart., C.B., F.R.S. 

 Prof. J. Perry, F.R.S. 

 Sir W. C. Roberts-Austen, 



K.C.B., F.R.S. 

 Sir Henry Roscoe, F.R.S. 

 Prof. A. W. Riicker, F.R.S. 

 Sir J. S. Burdon-Sanderson, 



Bart., F.R.S. 

 Dr. D, H. Scott, F.R.S. 

 SirG. G. Stokes, Bart., F.R.S. 

 Prof. G. Johnstone Stoney, 



Mr. J. J. H. Teall, F.R.S. 

 Prof. T. E. Thorpe, F.R.S. 

 Prof. W. A. Tilden, F.R.S. 

 Rev. Canon Tristram, F.R.S. 

 Sir William Turner, F.R.S. 

 Prof.W. F. R. Weldon, F.R.S. 



NO. 1592, VOL. 62] 



Foreign nationalities were represented by : — 



Dr. F. P. Moreno (of the 

 Argentine Republic). 



Major Dr. von Wissmann 

 Germany). 



Mons. L. Geoffray (France). 



Mons. F. Fuchs (Congo Free 

 State). 



Prof. Batalha Reis (Portugal). 



Prof. G. Paladino (of Naples). 



Prof. G. Gilson (of Louvain). 



Senor Don Pedro Jovar y Tovar 

 (Spain). 



Count Bottaro Costa (Italy). 



Plenipotentiaries at the Inter- 

 national Conference for the 

 preservation of wild animals 

 in Africa. 



Punctually at the time appointed (1.15 p.m.), his Royal 

 Highness took up a position to the spectators' left of the 

 statue, supported by the Standing Committee of the 

 Trustees of the Museum, with Sir Maunde Thompson 

 and Prof. Ray Lankester ; while Sir Joseph Hooker, 

 similarly supported by the members of the Executive of 

 the Memorial Committee, stood on the right ; the sculptor, 

 Mr. Onslow Ford, being in proximity to the statue. 



The proceedings were opened by Prof. Ray Lankester, 

 with the following introductory statement : — 



Your Royal Highness, My Lords, Ladies and 

 Gentlemen, — The duty of briefly explaining the nature of 

 the present proceedings has devolved upon me. I feel it to be 

 a great privilege to discharge this duty on the occasion designed 

 to do honour to my venerated master. Prof. Huxley. . This 



