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INDEX 



Action, the result of memory grasping facts successfully, 116 



Alpha ray, conditions of its passage in mica, 148 



Alpha ray, discovery of, fraught with momentous bearings 



upon geological science, 137 



Alpha ray, nature of the change produced by, 149 

 Alpha ray, velocity of the, 129 

 Atoms, opposition of, to rays, 132 

 Automatism, 121 



Beagle, voyage of the, and Darwin's early researches, 45 



Bible teaching, Huxley's position in relation to, 25 



Biological inquiry, new school of, under Huxley's lead, 16 



Biological laboratOTies, introduction of, 19 



Biology, Huxley's work in, 14 



Biology, the science of, split up into* several branches, 17 



Huxley's teaching and view point, 18 



Biotite, pleochroic haloes indicating action of alpha ray in, 138 

 Bragg's discovery of the " stopping power '' of atoms, 134 

 Brain (the) and consciousness, 106 



its functions, 107 



functions of, in lower organisms, 109 



Brain/ (the human) possesses power to oppose automatism, 122 



Character : Huxley's efforts foir teaching which should build 



up character, 25 

 Chemical composition of a medium a basis for calculating 



the power of pemetration of rays, 135 

 Church, Huxley's conflict with the, 33 ; his position, 33 



its opposition to natural knowledge, 40 



Comparative anatomy, Huxley's memoirs on, 13 

 Conduct of life, Huxley's view of, 28 

 Consciousness a hyphen between past and future, 105 

 Consciousness in the lowest organisms, 112 



