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of Genesis. Huxley's views on these matters have 

 been touched upon in various places in these pages, 

 and our readers who wish to study them in detail 

 will find them in the fifth volume of the Collected 

 Essays, 



In 1892 Huxley was the recipient of an entirely 

 unexpected honour in being made a Privy Coun- 

 cillor. This he accepted on the grounds that it was 

 not a title but an office, and although an office in 

 which there was possibly but little chance of service, 

 still, theoretically, it was one in which a represen- 

 tative of science might conceivably be of use to the 

 Government. The following year (1893) was remark- 

 able for little that was new in Huxley's life, but was 

 noted by the loss of three old friends in Sir Andrew 

 Clark, Tyndall, and Jowett. Perhaps his more im- 

 portant work this year was liis " Romanes Lecture," 

 which elicited a good deal of criticism and discussion. 



In 1894 he completed his ninth volume of the 

 Collected Essays, and various other literary work, 

 and. in August made his last gi"eat public appearance 

 at the meeting of the British Association at Oxford — 

 a meeting which was dramatic in many of its phases, 

 especially for Huxley and those who followed him. 

 The Presidential address was given by Lord SaUs- 

 bury, and was remarkable in accepting the doctrine 

 of evolution as being disputed by no reasonable man, 

 though, at the same time, Lord Salisbury's address 

 clearly showed a great lack of appreciation and 

 understanding of Darwin's views. It was thirty- 

 four years since the Association had met at Oxford 

 on that famous occasion to which we have already 

 referred, when Huxley and Bishop Wilberforce met 

 in conflict. Much had happened in the interval ; 



