1867 RESIGNS FULLERIAN LECTURESHIP 423 



Of his final lectures in 1867 he used to tell a story 

 against himself. 



In my early period as a lecturer, I had very little 

 confidence in my general powers, but one thing I prided 

 myself upon was clearness. I was once talking of the 

 brain before a large mixed audience, and soon began to 

 feel that no one in the room understood me. Finally I 

 saw the thoroughly interested face of a woman auditor, 

 and took consolation in delivering the remainder of the 

 lecture directly to her. At the close, my feeling as to 

 her interest was confirmed when she came up and asked 

 if she might put one question upon a single point which 

 she had not quite understood. "Certainly," I replied. 

 " Now, Professor," she said, " is the cerebellum inside or 

 outside the skull ? " (Reminiscences of T. H. Huxley, by 

 Professor H. Fairfield Osborn). 



Dr. Foster used to add maliciously, that disgust 

 at the small impression he seemed to have made was 

 the true reason for the transference of the lectures. 



