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of Prof. Huxley ; and up to the time of his 

 last illness he was actively interested in the 

 establishment of scientific scholarships in 

 almost everj' college in the United King- 

 dom, and of the Indian Empire and the 

 colonies. One whole autumn he had spent 

 on a gunboat with Prof. Huxley, in connec- 

 tion with the Eoyal Commission on the 

 Fisheries of the Coast, and his labors, as- 

 sistance and knowledge in that inquirj^ were 

 most valuable. He did not wish to over- 

 rate Prof. Huxley's labors as a public man 

 in comparison with his scientific work. Dis- 

 coveries in abstract science were of far 

 greater service to humanity than the labors 

 performed for one particular generation. 

 But public work had done much to make 

 Huxley's name loved by the people; and it 

 was right to ask the people, for whom in his 

 generation he had done so much, to join in 

 making the memorial worthy of him. 



Sir Joseph Hooker moved : " That the 

 memorial do take the form of a statue to be 

 placed in the Museum of Natural History, 

 and a medal in connection with the Royal 

 College of Science ; and that the surplus be 

 devoted to the fui-therance of biological 

 science, in some manner to be hereafter 

 determined by the committee, dependent 

 upon the amount collected." He said that 

 he and Prof. Huxley entered the public 

 service together as volunteers. The choice 

 lay between them for the appointment to 

 the Rattlesnake, and when Huxley returned 

 from that cruise a friendship sprang up be- 

 tween them that had lasted for 40 years ; 

 and he owed his success in scientific life 

 to the advice, stimulus and example of 

 Huxley. He was sorry to say that Huxley's 

 services to science were more appreciated 

 abroad than even in this country. In the 

 committee lists, which included more than 

 700 names, the foreign acceptances were 

 more numerous than those at home. He 

 hoped this state of things would speedily 

 be remedied. The provisional committee 



had thought of publishing, in a series, Hux- 

 ley's scientific papers ; but that was no 

 longer necessary, as Messrs. Macmillan had 

 written that they were prepared at their 

 own risk to publish Huxley's papers in a 

 collected, memorial form, provided that the 

 committee would appoint some one to 

 Supervise the series. Messrs. Macmillan 

 had promised to defray the cost of editing: 



Mr. Leslie Stephen, in seconding the reso- 

 lution, said that a high sense of personal 

 gratitude to Huxlej' moved him to take part 

 in this meeting. In a friendship of nearly 

 40 years Huxley had shown to him excep- 

 tional kindness on more than one occasion. 

 Huxley was a man not only to be honored 

 for his intellectual power, but to be loved for 

 his masculine, affectionate nature. Lately 

 he had read through Huxley's collected 

 works, and he was convinced that when the 

 history of this time came to be written, 

 Huxley would find a place, not only among 

 the leaders of the most characteristic scien- 

 tific movement of the day, but also as one 

 of the very first writers of English. 



Mr. Alma-Tadema moved the following 

 resolution : 



" That the persons named in the list 

 which has been circulated do form a gen- 

 eral committee, and that the following 20 

 persons be selected to form an excutive, 

 with power to elect its own chairman, and 

 to add to the number of the general com- 

 mittee: Sir J. Lister, Prof. M. Foster, Lord 

 Eayleigh, Prof. E. Frankland, Sir J. Evans, 

 Sir W. Besant, Sir J. Donnelly, Sir J. 

 Fayrer, Sir W. H. Flower, Sir A. Geikie, 

 Sir J. Hooker, Prof. E. Ray Lankester, 

 Prof. J. N. Lockyer, Mr. Briton Riviere, 

 Dr. P. L. Sclater, Sir H. Thompson, Mr. 

 Spencer Walpole, Lord Shand, Sir John 

 Lubbock and Prof. Gr. B. Howes." 



Prof. G. B. Howes said that the sum 

 already received in subscriptions to the 

 memorial was £213, while £344 more was 

 promised, making a total of £557. 



