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Road when the conversation almost immediately turned upon 

 American racing and race horses, a topic on which I was obliged 

 to confess myself an absolute ignoramus by the side of my inter- 

 locutor. 



A few parting words. In 1893 I had the pleasure of being 

 constituted one of a committee of five on the award of the Hayden 

 Memorial Medal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadel- 

 phia a medal (and accompanying fund) awarded for meritorious 

 work in the domain of geology and paleontology. The award was 

 made unanimously, and almost without discussion, to Prof. Hux- 

 ley, and his name thus appears in association with the names of 

 James Hall, Cope, Suess (of Vienna), and Daubrde (of Paris), other 

 recipients and masters in a field with which the labors of Prof. 

 Huxley are not very generally associated. The following charac- 

 teristic reply, acknowledging the receipt of the award, was ad- 

 dressed to the Academy. 



HODESLEA, STATELY ROAD, EASTBOURNE, January 4, 1894. 



GENTLEMEN: The Hayden Memorial Medal, with your draft 

 (which will incorporate itself into an ornament for my wife's 

 drawing room), reached me the first of the month, a New- Year's 

 gift of a value quite unexampled in my experience. I am very 

 sensible of the great honor which the Academy of Natural Sciences 

 of Philadelphia has conferred upon me a retired veteran who has 

 much reason to suspect that he has already received quite as much 

 promotion as he has deserved. 



But increasing years, if they bring a diminution of variety (I 

 am not sure they do), leave the desire for the esteem of those who 

 have a right to judge us intact, perhaps intensify it ; and I beg 

 leave to assure you and your colleagues fellow- workers of Hay- 

 den and of Leidy that the kindly and sympathetic terms of your 

 award have given me very great pleasure. 



With all respect, I have the honor to be, gentlemen, 

 Your obedient servant and colleague, 



THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY. 



It is not for the student to sum up either the quality or the 

 quantity of the labors of his teacher and master, but for those who 

 still doubt and there are some such the justice of the position 

 which has by almost common consent been given to Huxley in the 

 realm of science, it may be recommended as a healthy exercise to 

 carefully read the titles of the hundreds of papers with which this 

 indefatigable writer, for the better part of half a century, has 

 crowded the pages of scientific journals and popular magazines ; 

 and after that, with equal care, the inquirer into fame will take 

 an advantageous turn in mastering the papers to which these titles 



