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speaking before he reached his chair. He spoke 

 between his hps, but with perfectly clear analysis, 

 with thorough interest, and with philosophic iixsight 

 which was far above the average of his students. . . . 

 His lips were firm and closely set, with an expression 

 of positiveness, and the other featiu-e which most 

 marked him was the very heavy mass of hair falling 

 over his forehead, which he would frequently stroke 

 or toss back." 



Equally enthusiastic is Professor >Iivart's account 

 of Huxley as a lecturer. " I have heard many men 

 lecture, but I never heard any one lecture as did 

 Professor Huxley. He was my very ideal of a 

 lecturer. Distinct in utterance, with an agreeable 

 voice, lucid as it was possible to be in exposition, 

 with admirably chosen language, sufficiently rapid 

 yet never hurried, often impressive in manner, yet 

 never otherwdse than completely natural, and some- 

 times allowing his audience a glimpse of that rich 

 fund of humour ever ready to well forth when occa- 

 sion prompted, sometimes accompanied with an extra 

 gleam in his bright, dark eyes, sometimes expressed 

 ^vith a dryness of gravity of look which gave it a 

 double zest. ... I learnt more from him in two 

 years than I had acquired m any previous decade 

 of biological study." 



Similar testimony is that contributed by Pro- 

 fessor Howes. " As a class lecturer Huxley was 

 facile princeps, and only those who were privileged 

 to sit under him could form a conception of his de- 

 livery. Clear, deliberate, never hesitant nor unduly 

 emphatic, never repetitional, always logical, his 

 every word told. Great, however, as were his class 



