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among the occupations of the year. In January 

 Huxley was elected Secretary of the Geological 

 Society, and with this office began a form of adminis- 

 trative work in the scientific world which ceased only 

 with his resignation of the Presidency of the Eoyal 

 Society in 1885. 



Part of the summer Huxley spent in the North. 

 On August 3 he went to Lamlash Bay in Arran. 

 Here Dr. Carpenter had, in 1855, discovered a con- 

 venient cottage on Holy Island the only one, indeed, 

 on the island well suited for naturalists ; the bay 

 was calm and suitable both for the dredge and for 

 keeping up a vivarium. He proposed Vhat either the 

 Survey should rent the whole island at a cost of some 

 50, or, failing this, that he would take the cottage 

 himself, if Huxley would join him for two or three 

 seasons and share the expense. Huxley laid the plan 

 before Sir E. Murchison, the head of the Survey, 

 who consented to try the plan for a course of years, 

 during three months in each year. " But," he added, 

 "keep it experimental; for there are no useful 

 fisheries such as delight Lord Stanley." Here, then, 

 with an ascent of Goatfell for variety on the 21st, a 

 month was passed in trawling, and experiments on 

 the spawning of the herring appear to have been 

 continued for him during the winter in Bute. 



On the 29th Huxley left Lamlash for a trip 

 through central and southern Scotland, continuing 

 his geological work for the Survey ; and wound up 

 by attending the meeting of the British Association 



