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effect in March 1854. An unexpected consequence 

 followed. As long as he was in the Navy, with 

 direct claims upon a Government department for 

 assistance in publishing his work, the Royal Society 

 had not felt justified in allotting him any part of the 

 Government Grant. But now that he had left the 

 service, this objection was removed, and in June 

 1854 the sum of 300 was assigned for this purpose, 

 while the remainder of the expense was borne by the 

 Ray Society, which undertook the publication under 

 the title of Oceanic Hydrozoa. Thus he was able to 

 record with some satisfaction how he at last has got 

 the grant, though indirectly, from the Govern- 

 ment, and considers it something of a triumph 

 for the principle of the family motto, tenax pro- 

 positi. 



While these fruitless negotiations with the Admir- 

 alty were in progress, he had done a good deal, both 

 in publishing what he could of his Rattlesnake work, 

 and in trying to secure some scientific appointment 

 which would enable him to carry out his two chief 

 objects : the one his marriage, the other the un- 

 hampered pursuit of science. In addition to the 

 papers sent home from the cruise one on the 

 Medusae, published in the Philosophical Transactions 

 of the Royal Society for 1849, and one on the Animal 

 of Trigonia, published in the Proceedings of the 

 Zoological Society for the same year he had reported 

 to the Admiralty in June 1851 the publication of 

 seven memoirs : 



