Xll HUXLEY. 



1859. Published Croonian lecture on Origin of the Vertebrate 

 Skull. 



1859. Reviewed the Origin of Species in the Times (26th Decem- 

 ber). 



1859. Appointed Secretary of the Geological Society. 



1859. Published Oceanic Hydrozoa. 



i860. Attended British Association Meeting at Oxford (debate 

 with Bishop Wilberforce). 



1 86 1. Lectured on Relation of Man to the rest of the Animal 



Kingdom at Edinburgh and London. 



1862. Elected Hunterian Professor at the Royal College of 



Surgeons. 



1863. Published Man's Place in Nature. 



1864. Appointed on Royal Commission on Sea Fisheries. 



Note. — Huxley served between 1862 and 1884 on ten Royal Commissions 

 on Fisheries, Scientific Education, etc. 



1866. Received degree of LL.D. Edinburgh. 

 1866. Published Lessons in Elementary Physiology. 

 1868. Elected President of the Ethnological Society. 

 1868. Lectured on the Physical Basis of Life. 



1868. Published memoirs on the Classification of Birds and on 



Lntermediate Animals between Birds and Reptiles. 



1869. Elected President of the Geological Society. 

 1869. Joined the Metaphysical Society. 



1869. Published Introduction to the Classification of Animals. 



1870. Elected President of British Association Meeting at Liver- 



pool. 

 1870. Elected member of the first School Board for London. 



1870. Published Lay Sermons. 



1 87 1. Appointed Secretary of the Royal Society. 



187 1. Broke down in health; visited Egypt. 



1872. Elected Lord Rector of Aberdeen University. 



1873. Published Critiques and Addresses. 



1874. Lectured on Animals as Automata at British Association 



Meeting, Belfast. 



1874. Lectured on Natural History as deputy to Sir Wyville 



Thomson at Edinburgh. 



1875. Took active part in controversy on Vivisection. 



1875. Published Practical Instruction in Elementary Biology. 



