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LIFE OF PROFESSOR HUXLEY 



thropus, 417; illness and consti- 

 tutional toughness: Spencer and 

 "pour le merite," 425; reassures 

 him against the pessimistic re- 

 ports of his health, ib. 



Hooker, Sir William, i. 250. 



Hornby, Admiral, i. 396. 



Horner, Leonard, i. 68, 220. 



Horse, evolution of, i. 351; pedigree 

 of, 420 ; recent additions to our 

 knowledge of the pedigree of, 503. 



Howard, Cardinal, ii. 97. 



Howell, George, M.P., letter to — " a 

 man who did hjs best to help the 

 people " ; technical education, i. 

 510. 



Howes, Professor G. B., helps in the 

 new science teaching, i. 407 n. ; 

 extends text-book, 409; on Hux- 

 ley's drawings at South Kensing- 

 ton, ii. 431 ; unpublished work, 

 Appendix I.; reminiscences, 435; 

 description of his lectures, 438. 

 Letter to — the scientific docker, ii. 

 388. 



Hubrecht, Professor A., impression of 

 Huxley, ii. 447. 



Hull, lectures at, i. 257. 



Humboldt, receives a Royal Medal, 

 i. 112. 



Hume, book on, i. 530-34; his nearest 

 approach to a work of fiction, 

 ii. 7. 



Hume, on miracles, i. 532; his philo- 

 sophical diamonds require set- 

 ting, ib. ; on impossibilities, ii. 

 296, 297. 



Humphry, Dr., Darwin's LL.D., i. 

 516. 



Hunterian Lectures, i. 143,254,264,269; 

 lectures the basis of his Manual 

 of Comparative Anatomy, 254; re- 

 signs, 335. 



Hutton, R. H., on Vivisection Com- 

 mission, i. 472 ; and vivisection, 

 ii. 256. 



Huxley, Eliza. See Scott, Mrs. 



Huxley, Ellen, marries Dr. Cooke, 

 i. 6. 



Huxley, George, of Wyre Hall, i. 2. 



Huxley, George, sen., at Ealing, i. 1; 

 returns to Coventry, 6. 



Huxley, Mrs. George, senior (Rachel 



Withers), mother of T. H. Hux- 

 ley, L 1 ; description of, 3 ; love 

 for, 4; her death, 90, 107. 

 Letters to — accommodation at sea, i. 

 30; Rio, 33; Mauritius, 36; de- 

 scription of Miss Heathorn, 41, 

 42; Port Essington, 46; announc- 

 ing his return, 70. 

 Huxley, George, jun., in Pyrenees 

 with, i. 92; lives with, for a time, 

 104; death of, 268. 

 Huxley, Mrs. George, jun., i. 115. 

 Huxley, H., letter to, on his engage- 

 ment, ii. 268. 

 Huxley, James Edmund, i. 21. 

 Huxley, Jessie O., i. 169. See also 



Waller, Mrs. 

 Huxley, L., letters to — on winning a 

 scholarship, ii. 8 ; Fishery ap- 

 pointment, 24; on Mastership of 

 University College, Oxford, 34; 

 assassination of Lord F. Caven- 

 dish, 48; pagan and papal Rome, 

 98; teaching of history: Siena, 104, 

 105; system at Eton: Lake Dis- 

 trict Defence Society, 143, 144 ; 

 hon. committee of French teach- 

 ers, 174; will not write on politics, 

 184 ; Salvation Army : Mr. Sidg- 

 wick's rebuke to the Speaker, 289; 

 building a house, 355 ; on his 

 twenty-first birthday, 458. 

 Huxley, Noel, i. 169, 173 ; death of, 



229, 233, 237. 

 Huxley, Samuel, i. 2. 

 Huxley, Mrs. T. H. (see also H. A. 

 Heathorn), his chief critic, i. 324. 

 Letters to — draws the sword, i. 70; 

 his lodgings, 71; help from Bur- 

 nett, 77; successes, 87; an unequal 

 struggle, 87, 88; resolves to stay 

 in London, 91 ; British Associa- 

 tion at Ipswich, 95 sq. ; jealousy 

 of his rise, 105; Royal Medal, 109; 

 succeeds Forbes, 117; post at 

 School of Mines, ib.; Coast Sur- 

 vey and Edinburgh chair, 121-23; 

 his future career, 427; Aberdeen 

 address, 438; on British Associa- 

 tion, Belfast,444-46; Lord Shaftes- 

 bury, 460-62; Edinburgh lectures, 

 476 sq.; second summer in Edin- 

 burgh, 491; American trip, 493; 



