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volunteers, who both edited and contributed, gave 

 place to paid editors. 



But Huxley was not satisfied with one defeat. 

 The quarterly scheme had failed ; he now tried if 

 he could not serve science better by returning to a 

 more frequent and more popular form of periodical. 

 From 1863 to 1866 he was concerned with the 

 Reader, a weekly issue ; l but this also was too heavy 

 a burden to be borne in addition to his other work. 

 However, the labour expended in these ventures was 

 not wholly thrown away. The experience thus gained 

 at last enabled the present Sir Norman Lockyer, 

 who acted as science editor for the Reader, to realise 

 what had so long been aimed at by the establish- 

 ment of Nature in 1869. 



Apart from his contributions to the species 

 question and the foundation of a scientific review, 

 Huxley published in 1860 only two special mono- 

 graphs (" On Jacare and Caiman," and " On the 

 Mouth and Pharynx of the Scorpion," already 

 mentioned as read in the previous year), but he read 

 " Further Observations on Pyrosoma " at the Linnean 

 Society, and was busy with paleontological work, 

 the results of which appeared in three papers the 

 following year, the most important of which was the 

 Memoir called a " Preliminary Essay on the Arrange- 

 ment of the Devonian Fishes," in the report of the 

 Geological Survey, "which," says Sir M. Foster, 



1 The committee also included Professor Cairns, F. Gallon, W. 

 F. Pollock, and J. Tyndall. 



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