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end at the seaside, Professor Marsh was not entirely neg- 

 lected. He writes in his Recollections (p. 6) : — 



How kind Huxley was to everyone who could claim his 

 friendship, I have good cause to know. Of the many instances 

 which occur to me, one will suffice. One evening in London at 

 a grand annual reception of the Royal Academy, where celebri- 

 ties of every rank were present, Huxley said to me, " When I 

 was in America, you showed me every extinct animal that I had 

 read about, or even dreamt of. Now, if there is a single living 

 lion in all Great Britain that you wish to see, I will show him 

 to you in five minutes." He kept his promise, and before the 

 reception was over, I had met many of the most noted men of 

 England, and from that evening, I can date a large number of 

 acquaintances, who have made my subsequent visits to that 

 country an ever-increasing pleasure. 



As for his summer occupations, he writes to his eldest 

 daughter on July 2 : — 



No, young woman, you don't catch me attending any con- 

 gresses I can avoid, not even if F. is an artful committee-man. 

 I must go to the British Association at Dublin — for my sins — 

 and after that we have promised to pay a visit in Ireland to Sir 

 Victor Brooke. After that I must settle myself down in Pen- 

 maenmawr and write a little book about David Hume — ^before 

 the grindery of the winter begins. 



The meeting of the British Association took place this 

 year in the third week of August at Dublin. Huxley gave 

 an address in the Anthropological subsection,* and on the 

 20th received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Dublin 

 University, the Public Orator presenting him in the follow- 

 ing words : — 



Prssento vobis Thomam Henricum Huxley — hominem vere 

 physicum — ^hominem facundum, lepidum, venustum — eundem 

 autem nihil (philosophia modo sua lucem praeferat) reformidan- 

 tem — ne illud quidem Ennianum, 



Simla quam similis, turpissima bestia, nobis. 



* " Informal Remarks on the Conclusions of Anthropology," B. A. 



Report, 1878, pp. 573-578. 



