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scholastic manner, but were inspired by the 

 innate fire and determined purpose of the 

 man, and were the beginning of a long ser- 

 ies of memoirs which made Huxley's name 

 famous throughout the scientific world, and 

 won for him early recognition as one of the 

 first biological investigators of the day. In 

 comparative anatomy Huxley's work was 

 of immense value, and he almost created a 

 new era in biological science by the great 

 advances which he made in the new mor- 

 phology. The instruction in morphology 

 and general biology which students of 

 Huxley's day could not obtain Ln any med- 

 ical school or university was now regu- 

 larly and systematically given, to the great 

 advantage of medical science, of science 

 in general, and of those who wished to 

 tinderstand the grandeur and beauty of 

 nature, and what lay under it. Huxley 

 also entered upon the subject of geology 

 and paleontology, and there he had left 

 results of an enduring character. His 

 important contributions to the great and 

 newly- developed science of evolution were 

 well known, and only needed to be men- 

 tioned to indicate how much science owed 

 to Huxley; But he was not a man who 

 was merely a specialist, content to work 

 out his special subject in the complete 

 and thorough manner which characterized 

 all his work. From the first he had a mind 

 which must extend into philosophic thought; 

 his moral lessons from biological work 

 extended even into the field of politics. 

 His contributions to thought in respect of 

 theology were themselves such as would put 

 Huxley's name and fame in a very high 

 position indeed. He sacrificed his ease, his 

 health and his time primarily for the ad- 

 vancement of science, but ultimately for the 

 object which he felt to be even greater than 

 the advancement of science — the promotion 

 of the moral and material welfare of man- 

 kind. And that being the case, who could 

 deserve a monument better than Huxley ? 



Mr. A. J. Balfour, in seconding the reso- 

 lution, referred more especially to Huxley's 

 contributions to the doctrine of evolution. 

 He said that in the critical period of 

 scientific history which followed the publi- 

 cation of the ' Origin of Species,' in 1857, 

 the man who did more than any other man, 

 perhaps, to stimulate public interest in the 

 subject, to bring into line all the younger 

 scientific thinkers of the day, to inspire 

 them with his ardor, with his beliefs, and 

 with his convictions, was probably Huxley. 

 That is no small title to fame. If it be the 

 fact, as I think it is, that it is now the 

 common property of all educated men to 

 look on this material world in which we 

 live from the evolutionary standpoint, if 

 that is a matter of common knowledge, 

 belief and conviction, as I think it is, we 

 owe that, not to the great original investi- 

 gators who started the theory, but to those 

 who, like Professor Huxley, did so much 

 by their scientific discoveries to support it, 

 and even more by their preaching and ex- 

 ample to spread it among all classes of 

 their fellow-countrymen . There were other 

 questions never far absent from the mind 

 of Prof. Huxley, as any one who knows 

 his work will admit, on which he has left 

 few positive results, and concerning which 

 differences of opinion exist. But there 

 ought to be no difierence of opinion as to 

 that great claim on our consideration ; and 

 that, even if it stood alone, dissociated from 

 his literary and strictly scientific work, 

 would, in my judgment, be quite sufficient 

 justification for this meeting, and for us to 

 use every exertion to carry into eifect the 

 resolution which it is my honor and duty 

 to second. 



Lord Playfair, in supporting the resolu- 

 tion, said that it had been his privilege to 

 be associated with Prof. Huxley in many of 

 his labors as a public man. The present 

 position qf technical education owed verj' 

 much to the advocacy and scientific labors 



