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LIFE OF PROFESSOR HUXLEY 



ii. i sq. ; estimate of the MSS. 

 of, ib. 



Armstrong, Sir Alexander, at Haslar, 

 i. 26. 



Armstrong, Lord, visits to, i. 325, 494, 

 513; and a Newcastle society, 

 ii. 66. 



Arnold, M., letters to— a lost um- 

 brella, i. 334; St. Paul and Protes- 

 tantism, 353; on death of his son, 

 398. 



Arolla, first visit to, ii. 146 sg. ; second 

 visit to, 180 sg. 



Aryans, origin of, ii. 286. 



Ascidians, new species of, i. 62; Doli- 

 olum and Appendicularia, 82; on 

 the structure of, 82; catalogue of, 



159- 

 Ashby, Mr., on sanitary work, ii. 73. 

 Ashley, Hon. E., Vivisection Bill, i. 



469. 

 Atavism, defence of the word, i. 220. 

 Athanasian Creed, anecdote, i. 505. 

 Atheism logically untenable, i. 260, 



443; ii. 172. 

 Athenaeum Club, elected to, i. 161. 

 Augustan epoch to be beaten by an 



English epoch, i. 171. 

 Automatism, Darwin suggests he 



should review himself on, ii. 41. 

 Auvergne, trip in, i. 420 sqg. ; glacia- 



tion in, 422; prehistoric skeleton 



at Le Puy, 423. 



Babbage, calculating machine, and 

 the theory of induction, ii. 278 sg. 



Bacon, influence of, i. 320; character, 

 ii. 15- 



" Baconian Induction," criticism of, 

 i. 520 sq.; Spedding on, 521-23. 



Baer, von, influence of, i. 112, 175; 

 his Copley Medal, 325; his work, 

 ii. 42. 



Bailey, F., at Lynton, ii. 45. 



Baillon, led to make fresh observa- 

 tions through Huxley's gentian 

 paper, ii. 214. 



Bain, Professor A., i. 279, 438. 



Balaam-Centaur, i. 486. 



Balfour, Right Hon. A., critique on 

 his Foundations of Belief, ii. 418- 

 23. 



Balfour, Francis, death of, ii. 40; 



obituary, 64; likeness to Huxley, 

 40 ; looked to as his successor, 

 41; opinion of, 420. 



Ball, John, with Huxley at Belfast, i. 

 445 sg. 



Ball, W. Piatt, letter to — criticises his 

 Use and Disuse: advice as to 

 future work, ii. 283. 



Baptism, i. 240. 



" Barriers, The Three," i. 211. 



Barry, Bishop, on Huxley's work on 

 the School Board, i. 365, 376. 



Bastian, Dr. H. Charlton, on spon- 

 taneous generation, i. 355, 357. 



Bateson, Mr., letter to — his book On 

 Variation returns from speculation 

 to fact: tiatura facit saltum, ii. 394. 



Bathybius, i. 317 sg., ii. 5 sq., 170 sq. ; 

 not accepted in connection with 

 Darwin's speculations, 5 n.; " eat- 

 ing the leek " about, 5 sg. 



Baynes, Thomas Spencer, letters to 

 — Aberdeen Address, i. 438; par- 

 sons at Edinburgh lectures, 477; 

 regime for health, 479; arrange- 

 ments for the Encyclopedia, 483; 

 articles for Encyclopedia, 483-88; 

 work on Dick Swiveller's prin- 

 ciple, 484; handwriting, 484; puts 

 aside a subject when done with, 

 485, 487; a Balaam-Centaur, 486; 

 Dean Stanley's handwriting, 486; 

 articles between H and L, 488; 

 sons-in-law, 488 ; Biology con- 

 trasted with Criticism, etc., 486; 

 reports of his American trip, 

 502; Harvey article, 520. 



Beale, Professor, i. 195, 196. 



Beaufort, Sir F. (Hydrographer), as- 

 sistance from, i. 61, 64, 78, 79. 



Beaumont, Elie de, contradicted by 

 nature, i. 401. 



Belemnites, on, i. 507, 517. 



Bell, Thomas, ready to help, i. 65, 68, 

 87; as man of science, 102; writes 

 official statement on the award of 

 Royal Society Medal to Huxley, 

 in, 251. 



Bence Jones, Dr., kindness of, i. 242; 

 would make the Fullerian Pro- 

 fessorship permanent, 314; friend- 

 ly conspiracy, 400 sq. 



Bennett, Risdon, and F.R.S., ii. 119- 



