INDEX 



A priori reasoning, ii. 223, 296, 406, 

 407. 



Abbott, Dr. E. A., on "Illusions"; 

 correspondence in Times, ii. 280 

 sqq. 



Aberdeen University, Huxley re- 

 jected for chair at, i. 86, 116; 

 Lord Rector of, i. 417. 

 Rectorial Address at, i. 436 sq. ; trans- 

 lated into German, 438; perils of 

 writing, 484. 



Aberdour, i. 166. 



Adamson, Professor, i. 536 sq. 



Addresses delivered under difficulties, 

 i. 444, 500. 



" Administrative Nihilism," i. 384, 

 396. 



Admiralty, parsimony of, in 1846, i. 

 31; their dealings with Huxley, 

 58, 61, 62, 65 sq., 77-81, 109, 127. 



Advice to would-be writer on scien- 

 tific subjects, ii. 417. 



Agassiz, Alexander, at x Club, i. 279; 

 visit to, 497. 



Agassiz, Louis, and creation, i. 181 ; 

 on glaciers, i. 440. 



Agnosticism, formulated in i860, i. 

 233 sq. ; controversy on, ii. 235- 

 45 ; restated, 296 sq. 



Airy, Sir G. B., P.R.S., ii. 54. 



Albert, Prince,- at British Association, 

 i. 166. 



Alcohol, use of, ii. 247. 



Alford, Dean, and Metaphysical So- 

 ciety, i. 338. 



Allman, Dr. George J., on Huxley's 

 leading discovery, i. 43, 142; 

 President British Association, 

 1879, ii. 6. 



America, visit to, i. 493-502; sight of 

 New York, 494; at Yale, ib. ; 

 friends, 494-98 ; at Niagara, 498 ; 



visits his sister, 498; at Balti- 

 more, ib.; lectures at New York, 

 501 sq. 



American Civil War, i. 271 ; suggests 

 article " Emancipation, Black 

 and White," 283. 



Amroth, i. 140. 



Anglesey, Marquis of, at. Wellington's 

 funeral, i. m. 



Angus, Dr., on School Board, i. 367. 



Animal motion, lecture on, i. 165. 



Animals and plants, i. 248. 



" Animals as Automata," i. 440, 442 

 sq. ; delivered without notes, 444. 



Anthropological Institute founded, i. 

 284. 



Anthropological Society amalgamated 

 with Ethnological, i. 284; 295. 



Anthropologic, Societe d', of Paris, i. 

 294, 295. 



Anthropomorphism, i. 258. 



Ape question, at Oxford, i. 192-204; 

 papers and lectures on, 205 sq. ; 

 Punch squib, 206, 215 ; at Edin- 

 burgh, 207 sq. ; leads to ethnologi- 

 cal work, 212 sq. ; conclusion of, 

 214. 



" Apologetic Irenicon," ii. 318 sq. 



Appletons and copyright, i, 305; visit 

 to, 494. 



Arbitration Alliance, letter to, on the 

 reduction of armaments and the 

 real causes of war, ii. 396. 



Archetype reviewed by H. Spencer, 1. 

 172. 



Argyll, Duke of, in Metaphysical So- 

 ciety, i. 338; on " Law," ii. 168; 

 reply to, 168; on coral reef theo- 

 ries, 168-70; further controversy 

 with, 288. 



Aristotle compared with Darwin, i. 

 515; certain errors attributed to, 



505 



