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paper on the Medusae or jelly-fish family, transmitted 

 to the Royal Society through Bishop Stanley, whose 

 admirable History of Birds has survived his episcopal 

 charges. It was promptly published, and was the 

 warrant of Huxley's election into the Society at the 

 early age of twenty-six. Thus far he could have no 

 quarrel with bishops. 



Back in England, " equipped as a perfect zoologist 

 and keen-sighted ethnologist " (the words are Vir- 

 chow's), Huxley obtained for a time the privilege of 

 appointment for " particular service," which enabled 

 him to work out on shore the results of the voyage. 

 But nearly five years of suspense and struggle were 

 to pass before he secured a permanent appointment 

 of ^"200 per annum, one-half of the modest 

 maximum he desired. Writing to his sister in 1850 

 he says: — 



I have no ambition, except as means to an end, and 

 that end is the possession of a sufficient income to 

 marry upon. ... A worker I must always be — 

 it is my nature — but if I had ^"400 a-year I would 

 never let my name appear to anything I did or ever 

 shall do. It would be glorious to be a voice working 

 in secret, and free from all those personal motives that 

 have actuated the best. 1 



He was in the front rank of anatomists; in 1852 

 his society conferred upon him the Royal Medal, 



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