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The year 1857 was the last in which Huxley 

 apparently had time to go so far in journal-writing as 

 to draw up a balance-sheet at the year's end of work 

 done and work undone. Though he finds " as usual 

 a lamentable difference between agenda and acta ; 

 many things proposed to be done not done, and many 

 things not thought of finished," still there is enough 

 noted to satisfy most energetic people. Mention has 

 already been made of his lectures sixty -six at 

 Jermyn Street, twelve Fullerian, and as many more 

 to prepare for the next year's course ; seven to work- 

 ing men, and one at the Royal Institution, together 

 with the rearrangement of specimens j,t the Jermyn 

 Street Museum, and the preparation x of the Explana- 

 tory Catalogue, which this year was published to the 

 extent of the Introduction and the Tertiary collections. 

 To these may be added examinations at the London 

 University, where he had succeeded Dr. Carpenter as 

 examiner in Physiology and Comparative Anatomy 

 in 1856, reviews, translations, a report on Deep Sea 

 Soundings, and ten scientific memoirs. 



The most important of the unfinished work con- 

 sists of the long-delayed Oceanic ffydrozoa, the Manual 

 of Comparative Anatomy, and a report on Fisheries. 

 The rest of the unfinished programme shows the 

 usual commixture of technical studies in anatomy and 

 paleontology, with essays on the philosophical and 

 educational bearings of his work. On the one hand 

 are memoirs of Daphnia, Nautilus, and the Herring, 

 the affinities of the Paleozoic Crustacea, the Ascidian 



