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LIFE OF PROFESSOR HUXLEY 



editor: Clifford's illness, ib. ; begs 

 him to avoid '-*"* avalanches of 

 work," 538. 



Friendship and criticism, apro- 

 pos of science review in Nine- 

 teenth Century, ii. 18; a confes- 

 sion, 66; dinner in honour of, 

 177, 178; Lord Granville's sar- 

 castic sweetness, 178 ; confused 

 with him in the popular mind, 

 274; Tennyson's funeral, 359, 360; 

 effect of influenza, 377; addresses 

 at Oxford: dying by inches, 378. 



" Universities, Actual and Ideal," i. 

 436 sq. 



University, Johns Hopkins, address at: 

 "Trustees have sometimes made a 

 palace and called it a university," 

 i. 499; ideal of, ii. 327-30; govern- 

 ment by professors only, 331 «. 



Use-inheritance, disbelief in, ii. 285; 

 in plants, ib. 



Variation, the key to the Darwinian 

 theory, i. 245. 



Varigny, H. de, letters to — his essays 

 translated into French : love of 

 his native tongue, ii. 308 ; later 

 volume not interesting to French 

 public : experimental proof of 

 specific infertility, 309. 



Vermes, a zoological lumber-room, i. 

 63, 142. 



Vestiges of Creation, i. 179, 180. 



Vesuvius, ascent of, i. 400. 



Virchow, Professor (in Huxley lec- 

 ture), influence of the Rattlesnake 

 voyage, i. 60; on Huxley's ethno- 

 logical work, 213; at Medical 

 Congress, ii. 35. 



Vivisection, i. 459 sqq.; Lord Shaftes- 

 bury's charges, 460 sq. ; W. E. 

 Forster and South Kensington 

 lectures, 462 sq.; personal feelings 

 on, 466, 472, 473; Bills, 469 sq., 

 473; fox-hunting legislators, 470; 

 experiment and original research, 

 471; Commission on, 472; Harvey 

 article, 518, 523. 



Vogt, Karl, i. 176. 



Von Willemoes Suhm and Ceylon 

 Museum, i. 404. 



Wace, Dr., attacks agnosticism, ii. 

 235 sq. 



Wales, H.R.H. Prince of, admitted to 

 Royal Society, ii. 42; unveils Dar- 

 win statue, 121. 



Walker, Alfred, letter to — local mu- 

 seums, i. 147. 



Walking, his holiday recreation, i. 155, 

 241, 242. 



Wallace, A. R., starts Darwin, i. 171, 

 178, 182; Civil List pension, ii. 15. 

 Letter from — friendship with Hux- 

 ley, ii. 432. 



Waller, Mrs. F. W., letters to— num- 

 bers at Edinburgh lectures: sug- 

 gests a new friend, i. 478; Afghan 

 War of 1878 : Indian Empire a 

 curse, 524 ; avoidance of con- 

 gresses, 530; acceptance of P.R.S., 

 ii. 58; portrait at the Royal 

 Academy: family news, 68; loss 

 of her child, 136; a Christmas 

 function, 457. 



Walpole, Sir Spencer, ii. 23 sq., 31 ; 

 on Huxley as Fishery Inspector, 

 23-29 ; kindness from, in I taly, 

 106, 108. 



Walpole, Sir Spencer H., Vivisection 

 Bill, i. 469. 



Ward, Dr., his former examiner, 

 passed over in favour of Huxley 

 for Royal Society, i. 104. 



Ward, T. H., visit to, ii. 256. 



Ward, Mrs. T. H., letter to— thanks 

 for Robert Elsmere, ii. 206. 



Ward, W., table-talk of Huxley, espe- 

 cially on the Foundations of Be- 

 lief, ii. 418; other reminiscences 

 of his talk, 453, 455. 



Ward, W. G-, in Metaphysical So- 

 ciety, i. 338, 340; saying about 

 Mill's opinions, 347. 



Warwick, lectures at, i. 165. 



Water Babies, The, i. 206; letter to 

 his grandson about, ii. 461. 



Waugh, Rev. Benjamin, impression of 

 Huxley on the School Board, i. 

 377 sq. 



Welby, Lady, letters to — life com- 

 pared to a whirlpool: human 

 tendency to make idols, ii. 7 2 '> 

 " devil's advocate " to H. Spen- 

 cer, 73; speculation and fact, 173; 



