20 LIFE OF PROFESSOR HUXLEY CHAP. I 



saloons, enough of suffering and criminality was seen 

 to leave a very deep and painful impression. In one 

 of these places, a thieves' lodging-house, a drunken 

 man with a cut face accosted him and asked him 

 whether he was a doctor. He said "yes," where- 

 upon the man asked him to doctor his face. He had 

 been fighting, and was terribly excited. Huxley 

 tried to pacify him, but if it had not been for the 

 intervention of the detective, the man would have 

 assaulted him. Afterwards he asked the detective 

 if he were not afraid to go alone in these places, 

 and got the significant answer, "Lord bless you, 

 sir, drink and disease take all the strength out of 

 them." 



On the 21st, after the general meeting of the 

 Association, which wound up the proceedings, the 

 Historical Society of Lancashire and Cheshire pre- 

 sented a diploma of honorary membership and a gift 

 of books to Huxley, Sir G. Stokes, and Sir J. Hooker, 

 the last three Presidents of the British Association, 

 and to Professors Tyndall and Rankine and Sir J. 

 Lubbock, the lecturers at Liverpool. Then Huxley 

 was presented with a mazer bowl lined with silver, 

 made from part of one of the roof timbers of the 

 cottage occupied as his headquarters by Prince Rupert 

 during the siege of Liverpool. He was rather taken 

 aback when he found the bowl was filled with cham- 

 pagne ; after a moment, however, he drank " success 

 to the good old town of Liverpool," and with a wave 

 of his hand, threw the rest on the floor, saying, " I 



