CHAPTER XVIII 



1886 



THE controversy with Mr. Gladstone indicates the 

 nature of the subject that Huxley took up for the 

 employment of his newly obtained leisure. Chequered 

 as this leisure was all through the year by constant 

 illness, which drove him again and again to the 

 warmth of Bournemouth or the brisk airs of the 

 Yorkshire moors in default of the sovereign medicine 

 of the Alps, he managed to write two more contro- 

 versial articles this year, besides a long account of 

 the "Progress of Science," for Mr. T. Humphry 

 Ward's book on The Reign of Queen Victoria, which 

 was to celebrate the Jubilee year 1887. Examina- 

 tions for the last time, however the meetings of 

 the Eton Governing Body, the business of the Science 

 Schools, the Senate of the London University, the 

 Marine Biological Association, the Council of the 

 Royal Society, and a round dozen of subsidiary 

 committees, all claimed his attention. Even when 

 driven out of town by his bad health, he would come 

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