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In 1862, while serving as one of the Secretaries of the Geological 

 Society, he was called upon, in the absence of Mr. Leonard Horner, 

 the President, to deliver the Annual Address. Again, in 1869 

 and 1870, whilst filling the Presidential Chair of that Society, he 

 delivered two other addresses. That in 1862 dealt with the subject 

 of Homotaxis as opposed to the use of the term synchronism ; in 

 1869 with the limitation of geological time ; in 1870 with the 

 evolution of the vertebrata and their geographical distribution. 

 He presided over Section D at the meeting of the British Asso- 

 ciation at Cambridge (1862), and as President of the Association 

 at Liverpool in 1870, delivering appropriate addresses on both 

 occasions. 



From 1863-70 he held the office of Hunterian Professor of 

 Comparative Anatomy in the Royal College of Surgeons, and in 

 1869-70 was President of the Ethnological Society. He filled the 

 office of Secretary to the Koyal Society for ten years, 1871-80, and 

 of President from 1883 to 1885. In 1883 he was appoiuted Eede 

 Lecturer at Cambridge. 



During the absence of Prof. Wyville Thomson on the "Challenger" 

 Expedition, he divided with Dr. Cams, of Leipzig, the duty of 

 acting as his substitute, delivering the lectures in the summer 

 sessions of 1875 and 1876 at the University of Edinburgh. In 1876 

 Prof. Huxley visited America, when he delivered an Address at the 

 opening of the Johns Hopkins University at Baltimore, on September 

 12th, and three lectures in New York, on September 18, 20, and 22, 

 before crowded audiences. In the same year Huxley received the 

 Wollaston Medal from the Geological Society of London. 



He was elected a member of the London School Board in 1870, 

 and took a leading part in opposing denominational teaching; but 

 was compelled by ill-health to retire from the Board in January, 

 1872. In December, 1872, he was elected Lord Eector of Aberdeen 

 University for three years, and installed February 27th, 1874. He 

 was a Fellow and Governor for some years of Eton College. 

 He was an elected Trustee of the British Museum, and a member 

 of the Senate of the University of London. He served on many- 

 Government and Eoyal Commissions, notably on Science, on 

 Fisheries, on Contagious Diseases, on Vivisection, on the Scottish 

 Universities, etc. From 1881 to 1885 he held the office of Inspector 

 of Salmon Fisheries. The only post he continued to hold up to 

 the time of his death was that of Dean and Honorary Professor of 

 Biology in the Royal College of Science, South Kensington. 



In 1892 he was admitted a member of the Privy Council, having 

 previously refused the honour of knighthood. 



It is impossible to enumerate here the many honours conferred 

 upon Professor Huxley. He was made a Doctor of the Universities 

 of Edinburgh, Dublin, Cambridge, Oxford, Breslau, and Wurzburg. 

 The Academies of Brussels, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Cairo, Berlin, 

 Gottingen, Haarlem, St. Petersburg, Lisbon, Rome, Munich, Phila- 

 delphia, and many others, conferred on him their Diplomas. He 

 was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh ; 



