CHAPTER XXIII 

 1869 



In 1869 Huxley published five paleontological papers, 

 chiefly upon the Dinosaurs (see letter above to Haeckel, 

 January 21, 1868). His physiological researches upon the 

 development of parts of the skull, are represented by a paper 

 for the Zoological Society, while the Introduction to the 

 Classification of Animals was a reprint this year of the sub- 

 stance of six lectures in the first part of the lectures on 

 Elementary Comparative Anatomy (1864), which were out of 

 print, but still in demand by students. 



As President of the Ethnological Society, he delivered 

 an inaugural address " On the Ethnology and Archaeology 

 of India," on March 9, and another " On the Ethnology and 

 Archaeology of North America," on April 13. As president 

 of the Society, moreover, he urged upon the Government 

 the advisability of forming a systematic series of photo- 

 graphs of the various races comprehended in the British 

 Empire, and was officially called upon to oiifer suggestions 

 for carrying out the project. This appears to be an ampli- 

 fication of Sir Joseph Fayrer's plan in 1866, with respect 

 to all the tribes of India (see p. 294, and Appendix I.). 



On April 7 he delivered his " Scientific Education : 

 Notes of an After-Dinner Speech " before the Philomathic 

 Society at Liverpool (Coll. Ess. iii. 3), one part of which 

 deals with the attitude of the clergy towards physical sci- 

 ence, and expresses the necessary antagonism between sci- 

 ence and Roman Catholic doctrine which appears more 

 forcibly in one of his speeches at the School Board in 

 1 87 1 (see p. 384). 

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