12 HUXLEY 



with modification " on a foundation which cannot be 

 shaken. 



Routine work leaves little, if any, time for original 

 investigation. Administrative detail filled the larger 

 part of each day with Huxley ; his heart was centred 

 in schemes for the diffusion of science ; the arrange- 

 ment and cataloguing of the contents of the Jermyn 

 Street Museum was a labour of years ; he gave, un- 

 grudgingly, help in forming other public as well as 

 private collections, which, in his own words, 



should be large enough to illustrate the most impor- 

 tant truths of natural history, but not so extensive as 

 to weary and confuse ordinary visitors. 



But with Huxley this, although an essential, was a 

 secondary, part of the business; with the organising 

 of materials there went pari passu instruction in their 

 nature and meaning, involving courses of lectures and 

 series of articles, both technical and popular, while 

 other public appointments made their inroads on his 

 time. This would seem enough to exhaust the day, 

 and when it is remembered that all which he under- 

 took, paid and unpaid alike, was done despite frequent 

 breakdown from dyspepsia and allied troubles, the 

 marvel grows that he found a moment for original 

 research, or for the wide and varied reading which, 

 fortifying him on every side, enabled him " to put to 



