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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XI. No. 282. 



Collating the facts ascertained from the 

 two skeletons of Diplodocus, the one in the 

 American Museum, and the other in the 

 Carnegie Museum, we ascertain that the 

 vertebral formula of Diplodocus was as given 

 on page 817. 



A paper giving a full account of the 

 specimen belonging to the Carnegie Museum 

 will appear in the Memoirs of this Institu- 

 tion. 



W. J. Holland. 



Carnegie Museum, 

 May 10, 1900. 



UNVEILING OF TSE HUXLEY ME3I0RIAL* 

 A LARGE assembly, representative of many 

 interests and many nationalities, the Prince 

 of Wales at their head, met in the great 

 hall of the Natural History Museum, South 

 Kensington, on Saturday, to do honor to 

 one who, in a degree rarely paralleled, was 

 at once a great man of science and a great 

 man of literature. The occasion was the 

 acceptance by the Prince of Wales, on be- 

 half of the trustees of the British Museum, 

 of a statute of Mr. Huxley, presented in the 

 name of the subscribers by the veteran Sir 

 Joseph Hooker, and may be regarded in 

 some sense as an eirenicon, for among the 

 official persons present was the Bishop of 

 Winchester, the successor of a doughty op- 

 ponent of the late Professor ; and the statue 

 faces the stately and simple figure of a 

 former scientific antagonist — Owen. The 

 Prince of Wales was president, Lord Ave- 

 bury, honorary treasurer, and Professor G. 

 B. Howes, honorary secretary of the me- 

 morial committee. Huxley had a rare 

 power of winning the regard and affection 

 of his pupils, and many of them, unknown 

 to fame, came to do him reverence. 



Professor Bay Lankester, Director of the 



Museum, made the following statement : 



The duty of briefly explaining the nature of 



the present proceedings has devolved upon 



* From the London Times. 



me. I feel it to be a great privilege to dis- 

 charge this duty on the occasion designed 

 to do honor to my venerated master, Pro- 

 fessor Huxley. This celebration would have 

 been no less dear to Huxley's fellow- worker 

 and friend, the late Director of this Mu- 

 seum, Sir William Flower, who, unhappily, 

 is no longer with us to witness the comple- 

 tion of the memorial statue which he espe- 

 cially desired to see placed in this hall. A 

 few months after Professor Huxley's death 

 in 1895 a committee was formed for the 

 purpose of establishing a memorial of the 

 great naturalist and teacher. At a meeting 

 of that committee, held on November 27, 

 1895, at which 250 members were present 

 and at which his Grace the Duke of Devon- 

 shire presided, the following resolution was 

 carried : " That the memorial do take the 

 form of a statue, to be placed in the Mu- 

 seum of Natural History, and a medal in 

 connection with the Royal College of Sci- 

 ence, and that the surplus be devoted to the 

 furtherance of biological science in some 

 manner to be hereafter determined by the 

 committee, dependent upon the amount 

 collected." From all parts of the world, 

 besides our own country, from every State 

 of Europe, from India and the remotest 

 colonies, and from the United States of 

 America subscriptions have been received 

 for the Huxley Memorial, amounting in all 

 to £3380. (Cheers.) Three years ago the 

 committee commissioned and obtained the 

 execution of a medal bearing the portrait 

 of Huxley, and has established its presen- 

 tation as a distinguished reward in the 

 Royal College of Science. The republica- 

 tion of the complete series of Huxley's 

 scientific memoirs, which was proposed as 

 one of the memorials to be carried out by 

 the committee, has been undertaken by 

 Messrs. Macmillan without assistance from 

 the committee. I am glad to be able to 

 state that two large volumes of these richly- 

 illustrated contributions to science have 



