5io 



LIFE OF PROFESSOR HUXLEY 



Comparative anatomy, letter on, i. 



160. 

 Comte, criticism on, i. 322 sq. ; would 



need re-writing, i. 451 ; typical 



of the century? 396. 

 Comtism, denned as " Catholicism 



without Christianity," i. 322. 

 Comtists, opinion of, ii. 419—20; see 



also Positivism. 

 Conditions, influence of, ii. 136, 137. 

 Congreve, controversy with, i. 322. 

 Controversy, opinion of, i. 271, 308, 



5161 S23, ii. 291 ; and friendship, 



i. 414, ii. 186; exhilarating effect 



of, ii. 102, 124, 125, 130, 154; aim 



of, 239, 240 ; in self-defence, 452. 

 Controverted Questions, ii. 316 ; labour 



of writing the prologue, 317 ; 



elimination of the supernatural, 



317- 

 Cook (editor of Saturday Re-view), i. 



191, 267. 

 Cooke, Dr., his brother-in-law, i. 6; 



his first instruction in medicine, 



16, 35- 

 Copley Medal, awarded to Huxley, ii. 



215. 

 Corfield, R., on Clifford's illness, i. 



537- 

 Cork, rejected for chair at, i. 86. 

 Cornay, Professor, acknowledgment 



from, i. 305. 

 Cornu, Professor, at x Club, i. 279. 

 Courtney, Right Hon. L., at Royal 



Society dinner, ii. 65. 

 Coventry, the home of Thomas Hux- 

 ley, i. 1; George Huxley returns 



to, 6. 

 Craniology, i. 257. 

 Cranks, letters from, ii. 46 sq. 

 Crayfish, on the, i. 143, 429* 5-5. ii- *• 

 Creation, controversy on Genesis i. 



with Mr. Gladstone, ii. 123 sqq., 



130; also 320. 

 Criticism, a compliment, i. 168. 

 Croonian Lecture, i. 172, 173, 175. 

 Cross, Lord, letter to — Vivisection 



Commission, i. 472. 

 Crossopterygian fishes, i. 164. 

 Crowder, Mrs., visit to, ii. 379. 

 Crum Brown, Professor, induces 



Huxley to play golf, i. 390. 

 Crustacea, paleozoic, i. 159. 



Culture, basis of, ii. 14 sq. 



Cunningham, on South American fos- 

 sil, i- 335- 



Cuno, language and race, ii. 287. 



Cuvier, his views controverted, i. 161, 

 165; and his title, 386; apprecia- 

 tion of, ii. 42. 



Cuvier, the British, i, 172. 



Dalgairns, Father, in Metaphysical 

 Society, i. 338. 



Dalhousie, Lord, President Royal 

 Commission on Trawling, ii. 27. 



Dana, and coral reef theories, ii. 170; 

 misunderstanding of Darwin in 

 his obituary of Asa Gray, 205. 



Daphnia, i. 159. 



Darwin, Charles, likewise begins his 

 career at sea, i. 31 ; as man of 

 science, 102, 103 ; saying about 

 happiness and work, 140; 168; 

 starts on the Origin, 171 ; effect 

 of the Origin, 179-83; the species 

 question before 1859, 182 ; the 

 most serious omission in the 

 Origin, 184; Huxley his " gen- 

 eral agent," 183, 297; his "bull- 

 dog," 391; and his predecessors, 

 216, 241 ; and poetry, 242; com- 

 pared with Lamarck, 245 ; and 

 spontaneous generation, 263 ; at 

 x Club, 279; his opinion of 

 Dohrn, 351; his generosity, 450; 

 " the cheeriest letter-writer I 

 know," ii. 13 ; letter to, obtain- 

 ing a Civil List pension for Wal- 

 lace, 15; death of, 40; notice of, 

 in Nature, 41 ; love for, ib. ; in- 

 tellect of, 42; obituary, 65; com- 

 pared to Gordon, 102; unveiling 

 of statue, 120 ; character and 

 friends, 121 ; influence in science, 

 173; exposition not his forte, 203; 

 dumb sagacity of, ib. ; legacy 

 from A. Rich, 304; his theory 

 needs experimental proof, 309 ; 

 and natura nan facit saltunt, 394; 

 typical of the century? 396; na- 

 ture of his work, 400; example 

 of, 413; defence of, 452. 

 Letters from — the decisive critics of 

 the Origin, i. 178; Huxley's res- 

 ervations in accepting the doc- 



