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methods of teaching, placed in the hands of his older 

 boys a Uttle red book on human physiology, and 

 ^\orked through it with them. The result deter- 

 mined the career of one of those boys, to whom 

 Huxley's life has been an inspiration ever since. 

 The boy was the present wTiter, and the book, 

 Lessons in Elementary Physiology, by Thomas Henry 

 Huxley. To how many thousands that little work 

 has been the means of attraction to scientific work 

 none can say. It was fii-st published in 1866, and 

 has since gone through numerous editions and more 

 numerous reprints, and remains to-day the best of 

 its kind. One of those to whom it taught so much 

 is glad to have been able to pay his grateful tribute 

 to the great biological teacher, and to one of the 

 greatest lives. 



