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been common to him and the lower animals, it may be said that 

 Huxley's conclusions as to the intimate relations between humanity 

 and the higher apes have been generally accepted. It was in the 

 same ' popular ' form that Huxley gave to the world many other 

 theories and disquisitions which have had much to do with moulding 

 educated opiuion during the last quarter of a century. Thus in 

 his three addresses as President of the Geological Society : on 

 ' Geological Contemporaneity and Persistent Types of Life,' on 

 ' Geological Reform,' and on ' Palaeontology and the Doctrine of 

 Evolution,' he dealt in his characteristically clear and masterly 

 manner with problems that still agitate evolutionists — the imper- 

 fection of the record, the duration of geological time, the succession 

 of life on the face of the earth, and other matters of profound 

 interest to geologists and biologists. In his papers on 'The 

 Methods and Results of Ethnology ' and on ' Some Eixed Points 

 in British Ethnology ' he introduced into the somewhat chaotic 

 branch of investigation that deals with Man a simplicity of treat- 

 ment and a scientific method which have done much to raise it 

 above a mere collection of unrelated facts. The lectures delivered 

 in America in 1876 brought together the data as to the evolution 

 of the Horse with a cogency that forms one of the most telling 

 arguments in favour of the Darwinian hypothesis. 



The only posts which Huxley continued to fill up to the time of his 

 death were those of Dean and Honorary Professor of Biology in the 

 Royal College of Science, South Kensington, Trustee of the British 

 Museum, and President of the Palaeontographical Society of London. 



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 Prof. Huxley. He was made a Doctor of the Universities 

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

 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 Eellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh ; 

 a Member of the Royal Irish Academy ; of the American Academy 

 of Science ; and (in 1879) a Corresponding Member of the Institute 

 of France (Section Anatomy and Zoology, in place of Yon Baer). 

 He was also a Knight of the Polar Star of Sweden. 



Turning to his published works, we may refer to his ' Oceanic 

 Hydrozoa ' ; his 'Lectures on Comparative Anatomy and Physiology'; 



