LITTLE president of the Geological and Ethnological Society, 

 JOURNEYS was appointed Royal Commissioner for the advance- 

 ment of Science; was a member of the London School 

 Board; Secretary of the Royal Society; Lord Rector 

 of the University of Aberdeen; President of the Royal 

 Society; and refused an offer to become Custodian of 

 the British Museum, a life position, and where he 

 had once applied for a clerkship. 



In letters to Darwin he occasionally signed his name 

 with all titles added, thus, "Thomas Henry Huxley, 

 M. B., M. D., Ph. D., LL. D., F. R. S. of Her Majesty's 

 Navy." 



Huxley was a forceful and epigrammatic writer, and 

 had a command of English second to no scientist that 

 England has ever produced. He was the only one of 

 his group who had a distinct literary style. 

 As a speaker he was quiet, deliberate, decisive sure, 

 and carried enough reserve caloric, so that he made his 

 presence felt in any assemblage before he said a word. 

 In oratory it is personality that gives ballast. 

 Of his forty-or-so published books, " Man's Place in 

 Nature," " Elementary Physiology " & " Classification 

 of Animals," have been translated into many languages ; 

 and now serve as text-books in various schools and 

 colleges Ji 



Huxley is the founder of the so-called Agnostic School, 

 which has the peculiarity of not being a school. The 

 word " agnostic" was given its vogue by Huxley. To 

 superficial people it was often used synonymously with 

 "infidel" and "freethinker," both words of reproach. 

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