200 LIFE OF PROFESSOR HUXLEY CHAP. X 



same kind to working men exclusively one of what we 

 call our series of " working men's lectures," consisting of 

 six given in turn by each Professor. The theatre holds 

 600, and is crammed full. 



I believe in the fustian, and can talk better to it than 

 to any amount of gauze and Saxony ; and to a fustian 

 audience (but to that only) I would willingly give some 

 when I come to Tenby. 



The corresponding movement set going by F. D. 

 Maurice also claimed his interest, and in 1857 he 

 gave his first address at the Working Men's College 

 to an audience, as he notes, of some fifty persons, 

 including Maurice himself. 



Other work of importance was connected with the 

 Royal Institution. He had been elected to deliver 

 the triennial course as Fullerian Professor, and for 

 his subject in 1856-57 chose Physiology and Com- 

 parative Anatomy; in 1858, the Principles of Biology. 



He was extremely glad of the additional " grist to 

 the mill " brought in by these lectures, for it may be 

 noted that the self-imposed burden of assisting a 

 relative who had fallen into difficulties, and of pro- 

 viding for the education of her children, bore with 

 especial weight upon the earlier years of his married 

 life. As he wrote in 1890 : 



I have good reason to know what difference a hundred 

 a year makes when your income is not more than four or 

 five times that. I remember when I was candidate for 

 the Fullerian professorship some twenty-three years ago, 

 a friend of mine asked a wealthy manager to support ma 

 He promised, but asked the value of the appointment, 



