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to grant it would seem as nearly to concern their Lordships' 

 honour as my advantage. 



The counter to this bold stroke was crushing, if not 

 convincing. He was ordered to join his ship immediately 

 under pain of being struck oflf the Navy list. He was of 

 course prepared for this ultimatum, and whether he could 

 manage to pursue science in England or might be compelled 

 to set up as a doctor in Sydney, he considered that he would 

 be better ofif than as an assistant surgeon in the Navy. 

 Accordingly he stood firm, and the threat was carried into 

 effect in March 1854. An unexpected consequence fol- 

 lowed. As long as he was in the navy, with direct claims 

 upon a Government department for assistance in publishing 

 his work, the Royal Society had not felt justified in allotting 

 him any part of the Government Grant. But now that he 

 had left the service, this objection was removed, and in June 

 1854 the sum of £300 was assigned for this purpose, while 

 the remainder of the expense was borne by the Ray Society, 

 which undertook the publication under the title of Oceanic 

 Hydrozoa. Thus he was able to record with some satisfac- 

 tion how he at last has got the grant, though indirectly, 

 from the Government, and considers it something of a tri- 

 umph for the principle of the family motto, tcnax propositi. 



While these fruitless negotiations with the Admiralty 

 were in progress, he had done a good deal, both in pub- 

 lishing what he could of his Rattlesnake work, and in trying 

 to secure some scientific appointment which would enable 

 him to carry out his two chief objects : the one his marriage, 

 the other the unhampered pursuit of science. In addition 

 to the papers sent home from the cruise — one on the Medu- 

 sae, published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal 

 Society for 1849, and one on the Animal of Trigonia, pub- 

 lished in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society for the 

 same year — he had reported to the Admiralty in June 1851 

 the publication of seven memoirs : — 



1. On the Auditory Organs of the Crustacea. Published in 

 the Annals of Natural History. 



2. On the Anatomy of the genus Tethea. Published in the 

 Annals of Natural History. 



