INDEX 



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Nashville visited, i. 498. 



Nassau, H.M.S., exploring ship, i. 297, 

 335- 



National Association of Science Teach- 

 ers, resigns presidency, ii. 70, 71. 



Natura non facit saltum not true in 

 evolution, i. 186, 189. 



Natural History Review, i. 225 sq., 241, 

 269. 



Natural Selection, not weak of faith 

 in, ii. 13; unlucky substitution of 

 *' survival of the fittest " for, 284; 

 produces state socialism, ib. 



Naturalists' fund, i. 177. 



Nature, translates Goethe's Aphorisms 

 for the first number, i. 351; article 

 " Past and Present," on twenty- 

 fifth anniversary, ii. 400, 409 ; 

 after-dinner speech, 409, 414. 



Nautilus, i. 159. 



Naval officers and scientific research, 

 ii. 45. 



Neanderthal skull, i. 212, 294. 



Necessity, i. 261. 



Nettleship, R. L., at Arolla, ii, 180. 



Newcastle, joins a society at, ii. 66. 



Newman, J. H., applied to for testi- 

 monial, i. 21; his doctrine of de- 

 velopment, ii. 239; Kingsley's 

 opinion of, 240; cited by Huxley, 

 240; effect on, of Papistry, 242; 

 how to turn his attacks, 297. 



Newport, George, i. y6, 99; as man of 

 science, 102. 



Newton, E. T., paleontologist to the 

 Geological Survey, ii. 226. 



Newton, Sir Isaac, compared with 

 Ptolemy, i. 215; a "sport," 259; 

 and his title, 386. 



Niagara, i. 498. 



Nicholas, Dr., master of Ealing 

 School, i. 1. 



Nicholson, Dr., of Sydney, i. 103. 



Nietzsche, means to read, ii. 382. 



Nordenskiold, fossils from Spitsber- 

 gen, i. 603. 



Northumberland, Duke of (First Lord 

 of the Admiralty), i. 78, 109. 



Norwich, Fishery Exhibition at, ii. 

 29 sq. 



Oakley, Sir Herbert, vicar of Eal- 

 ing, i. 4- 



Objects of the sea-shore, letters on, 

 ii. 310, 311. 



Oceanic Hydrosoa, i. 8r, 82, 143, 159, 

 172; loses priority by delay, 175, 

 176; still of use in 1867, 310. 



Officers, retired, in administrative 

 posts, ii. 49. 



Official work, growth of, i. 428; climax 

 of, ii. 52. 



Oken, his speculations, i. 112, 153. 



Oliver, Professor, i. 226, 274. 



Opinions which cannot be held "with- 

 out grave personal sin," i. 347. 



Optimism, i. 236. 



Origin of Species, i. 143, 178; effect of 

 its publication, 179; " a flash of 

 light," 182; review in Times, 189; 

 criticism on the, 273 ; influence 

 of, 346; "coming of age" of, ii. 

 12 sq.; difficulty of, 204-206; and 

 theory of evolution, 400, 401. 



Original sin and Darwinism, i. 297 

 (cp. ii. 298). 



Orthodox Christianity, how regarded 

 by many men of science, i. 238, 

 258 sq. 



Osborn, Professor Henry Fairfield, 

 reminiscences quoted, i. 315; ac- 

 count of Huxley at Oxford, 1894, 

 ii- 398, 399; description of his lec- 

 tures, 435, 436; impromptu lectur- 

 ing, 440; simian characteristics of 

 infants, story of Huxley, 449 n. 



Ossory, Mr., with Huxley in Egypt, 

 i. 399. 



Owen, Sir Richard, introduction to, i. 

 27, 29; visits, 64; supports claims 

 of Huxley, 64, 65, 68, 87; at the 

 Geological Club, 68; his pay, 74; 

 as man of science, 101; his Par- 

 thenogenesis, 101 , 102 ; civility of, 

 103 ; support for F. R. S., 104 ; 

 breach with, 153; at Aberdeen 

 British Association, 166, 168; his 

 morphological speculations, 171 ; 

 the British Cuvier, 172, 174; style, 

 of, 191; on the Ape question at 

 Oxford, 194, 200, 206, 207, 215; at 

 Cambridge British Association, 

 213; on air-cells of birds in flight, 

 228 ; criticises Darwin on spon- 

 taneous generation, 263; 267; au- 

 thor of article on " Oken and the 



