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" Why I was christened Thomas Henry I do not know ; but it is a curious chance 

 that my parents should have fixed for my usual denomination upon the name of that 

 particular Apostle with whom I have always felt most sympathy " (Autobiography of 

 T. H. H.) " I desired to obtain a Professorship of either Physiology or Comparative 

 Anatomy. . . . At last, in 1845, on the translation of my warm friend Edward 

 Forbes to Edinburgh, Sir Henry de la Beche, the Director-General of the Geological 

 Survey, oflered me the post Forbes vacated of Palaeontologist and Lecturer on Natural 

 History. I refused the former point blank, and accepted the latter only provisionally, 

 telling Sir Henry that I did not care for fossils, and that I should give up natural 

 history as soon as I could get a physiological post. But I held the office for thirty-one 

 years, and a large part of my work has been palaeontological." 



The portrait in the text is taken from a replica of the bronze 

 medallion designed by Frank Bowcher, Esq., for the Corporation of 

 Ealing. We are glad to have a copy in our Medical School, thanks 

 to the liberality of James Grimble Groves, M.P. for South Salford. 

 The medallion is intended to mark the fact that Professor Huxley 

 on October 2nd, 1874, opened the Medical Department of Owens 

 College, when the original Pine Street School Royal Manchester 

 Medical School was incorporated with Owens College. The 

 collotype is from the second portrait of Huxley, painted by his son- 

 in-law, the Hon. John Collier, to whom I am indebted for 

 permission to reproduce this portrait. " It represents him sitting in 

 his study at Marlborough Place, where he did so much of his work. 

 All the accessories are faithfully reproduced. It was painted in 1890, 

 shortly before he moved to Eastbourne." 



For the present here endeth the story of " Some Apostles of 

 Physiology." 



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