2 52 LIFE OF PROFESSOR HUXLEY chap, xyii 



1859, was now published in the Proceedings of the Linnwan 

 Society. 



In the list of work in hand are four paleontological pa- 

 pers,* besides the slowly progressing Manual of Comparative 

 Anatomy. 



When he went north to deliver his lectures at Edin- 

 burgh " On the relation of Man to the Lower Animals," 

 he took the opportunity of examining fossils at Forfar, 

 and lectured also at Glasgow ; while at Easter he went to 

 Ireland; on March 15 he was at Dublin, lecturing there 

 on the 25th. 



Reference has already been made (in the letter to C. 

 Darwin of May 6, 1862) to the unsatisfactory state of Hux- 

 ley's health. He was further crippled by neuralgic rheu- 

 matism in his arm and shoulder, and to get rid of this, went 

 on July I to Switzerland for a month's holiday. Reaching 

 Grindelwald on the 4th, he was joined on the 6th by Dr. 

 Tyndall, and with him rambled on the glacier and made 

 an expedition to the Faulhorn. On the 13th they went 

 to the Rhone glacier, meeting Sir J. Lubbock on their way, 

 at the other side of the Grimsel. Both here and at the 

 Eggischhorn, where they went a few days later, Huxley 

 confined himself to easy expeditions, or, as his notebook 

 has it, stayed " quiet " or " idle," while the hale pair as- 

 cended the Galenstock and the Jungfrau. 



By July 28 he was home again in time for an exam- 

 iners' meeting at the London University the next day, and 

 a viva voce in physiology on the 4th August, before going 

 to Scotland to serve on the Fishery Commission. 



This was the first of the numerous commissions on 

 which he served. With his colleagues. Dr. Lyon Playfair 

 (afterwards Lord Playfair) and Colonel Maxwell, he was 

 busy from August 8 to September 16, chiefly on the west 

 coast, taking evidence from the trawlers and their oppo- 



* "On Indian Fossils," on " Cephalaspis and Pteraspis," on " Sta- 

 gonolepis,'" and a "Memoir descriptive of Labyrinthodont remains 

 from the Trias and Coal of Britain," which he first treated of in 1858, 

 "clearly establishing for the first time the vertebrate nature of these 

 remains." — Sir M. Foster, Obit. Notice, Proc. R. S. lix. 55. 



