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been already published. Whilst these other 

 memorials were in progress under the aus- 

 pices of the executive committee thej' se- 

 cured the services of Mr. Onslow Ford, E.. A., 

 to execute the statue which it had been de- 

 cided by the general committee to regard 

 as the chief object of the subscriptions en- 

 trusted to them. On the completion of the 

 statue the Trustees of the British Museum 

 agreed to receive it and to place it in the 

 great hall where we are now assembled. 

 On behalf the vast body of subscribers to 

 the memorial Sir Joseph Hooker, Huxley's 

 oldest and closest friend, himself the sur- 

 vivor of that distinguished group of natur- 

 alists, including Charles Lyell, Richard 

 Owen and Charles Darwin, who shed so 

 much lustre on English science in the Vic- 

 torian age, will hand over the statue of 

 Huxley to the Trustees of the British Mu- 

 seum. Your Royal Highness has been 

 graciously pleased, as one of the Trustees, 

 to represent them on the present occasion, 

 and to receive the statue on their behalf. 

 The memorial statue of Huxley is the ex- 

 pression of the admiration, not only of the 

 English people, but of the whole civilized 

 world, for one who as discoverer, teacher, 

 writer and man must be reckoned among 

 the greatest figures in the records of our 

 age. 



Sir Joseph Hooker said : I have the 

 honor of being deputed, by the subscribers 

 to the statue of my friend the late Profes- 

 sor Huxley, to transfer it to your Royal 

 Highness, on behalf of the trustees of the 

 British Museum, with the intent that it 

 should be retained in this noble hall as 

 a companion to the statues of Professor 

 Huxley's distinguished predecessors, Sir 

 Joseph Banks, Mr. Darwin and Sir Richard 

 Owen. It would be a work of superero- 

 gation on my part, even were I competent 

 to do so, to dwell upon Professor Huxley's 

 claims to so great an honor, whether as a 

 profound scientific investigator of the first 



rank, or as a teacher, or as a public ser- 

 vant ; but I may be allowed to indicate a 

 parallelism between his career and that of 

 two of the eminent naturalists to whom I 

 have alluded, which appears to me to af- 

 ford an argument in favor of retaining his 

 statue in proximity to theirs. Sir Joseph 

 Banks, Mr. Darwin, and Professor Huxley 

 all entered upon their effective scientific 

 ■careers by embarking on voyages of circum- 

 navigation for the purpose of discovery and 

 research under the flag of the Royal N"avy. 

 Sir Joseph Banks and Professor Huxley 

 were both presidents of the Royal Society, 

 were trustees of the British Museum ; and, 

 what is more notable by far, so highly were 

 their scientific services estimated by the 

 Crown and their country, that they both at- 

 tained to the rare honor of being called to 

 seats in the Privy Councils of their respective 

 Sovereigns. With these few words I would 

 ask your Royal Highness graciously to ac- 

 cede to the prayer of the subscribers to 

 this statue, and receive it on behalf of the 

 trustees of the British Museum. 



Professor Sir Michael Foster, following, 

 said : Before your Royal Highness unveils 

 this statue it is my duty and privilege to 

 add a few words to those which have just 

 been spoken by the beloved Nestor of bio- 

 logical science. Sir Joseph D. Hooker, 

 born before Huxley was born, a sworn com- 

 rade of his in the battle of science, standing 

 by him and helping him like a brother all 

 through his strenuous life, may, perhaps, 

 be allowed to shrink from saying what he 

 thinks of the great work which Huxley did. 

 We of the younger generations, Huxley's 

 children in science, who know full well that 

 anything we may have been able to do 

 springs from what he did for us, cannot on 

 this great occasion be wholly silent. Some 

 of us have at times thought that Huxley 

 gave up for mankind much which was 

 meant for the narrower sphere of science ; 

 but if science may seem to have been thereby 



