112 LIFE OF PROFESSOR HUXLEY CHAP. IV 



well as Professor of Biology in the College of Science, 

 and Inspector of Fisheries. Though he still managed 

 to find some time for anatomical investigations, and 

 would steal a precious hour or half-hour by driving 

 back from the Home Office to his laboratory at South 

 Kensington before returning home to St. John's 

 Wood, the amount of such work as he was able to 

 publish could not be very great. 



His most important contributions during thisdecennium 

 (writes Sir M. Foster) were in part continuations of his 

 former labours, such as the paper and subsequent full 

 memoir on Stagonolepis, which appeared in 1875 and 

 1877, and papers on the SkulL The facts that he called 

 a communication to the Royal Society, in 1875, 1 on 

 Amphioxus, a preliminary note, and that a paper read to 

 the Zoological Society in 1876, on Ceratodus Forsteri, 

 was marked No. 1 of the series of Contributions to 

 Morphology, showed that he still had before him the 

 prospect of much anatomical work, to be accomph'sned 

 when opportunity offered ; but, alas ! the opportunity 

 which came was small, the preliminary note bad no full 

 successor, and No. 1 was only followed, and tbat after an 

 interval of seven years, by a brief No. 2. A paper " On 

 the Characters of the Pelvis," in the Proceedings of the 

 Royal Society, in 1879, is full of suggestive thought, but 

 its concluding passages seem to suggest tbat others, and 

 not he himself, were to carry out the ideas. Most of tbe 

 papers of this decennium deal with vertebrate morphology, 

 and are more or less connected with his former researches, 

 but in one respect, at least, be broke quite fresh ground. 

 He had chosen tbe crayfish as one of tbe lessons for tbe 

 class in general biology spoken of above, and was thus 

 drawn into an interesting study of crayfishes, by which he 



1 Written 1874. 



