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vertebrate morphology," and in " enunciating views 

 which, if somewhat modified, are still, in the main, 

 the views of the anatomists of to-day." 1 



Linnaeus says that " fossils are not the children, 

 but the parents, of rocks," and the interest aroused in 

 the contents of the fossil-yielding rocks when Huxley 

 went to the School of Mines was extended to the 

 rocks themselves. During his more official connec- 

 tion with the Geological Society as Deputy-President 

 in 1862, and as President in 1869 and 1870, he de- 

 livered three addresses, each of which holds matter of 

 permanent value. As already shown, the latest of 

 these, which was entitled " Palaeontology and the 

 Doctrine of Evolution," dealt with the ancestry of 

 the horse j but it embraced the more general question 

 of the evidence as to intermediate links between 

 species supplied by the fossiliferous rocks. This in- 

 volved a revision of opinions expressed in the address 

 of 1862, and the clear deliverance that Huxley enter- 

 tained " no sort of doubt that the Reptiles, Birds, and 

 Mammals of the Trias are the direct descendants of 

 Reptiles, Birds, and Mammals which existed in the 

 latter part of the Palaeozoic epoch, but not in any 

 area of the present dry land which has yet been ex- 

 plored by the geologist." In the 1862 address ref- 



1 Sir Michael Foster, " Obituary Notice of T. H. Huxley," 

 Proc. Royal Society, vol. lix. 



