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and asexual modes of generation alternate {cf. No. 4, 

 p. 38). (Proc. Roy. Inst., ii, 1854-8, pp. 534-8. Sci. 

 Mem., i, xxxi, p. 321). 



A particularly interesting feature of the year was the 

 organization of a scientific column in the Saturday Review, 

 the outcome of a conference between Huxley, Hooker 

 and Tyndall, who were impressed with the desirability of 

 making recent scientific work known to the general public 

 as well as to specialists. The column was intended to 

 serve the purpose of a " Scientific Review," the launch- 

 ing of which appeared at the time to be impracticable. 

 Some years later (1861) the original project was to some 

 extent realized by the publication of a quarterly Natural 

 History Review, which became extinct in 1865. Mr. 

 (now Sir Norman) Lockyer was the science editor of this 

 publication, and the experience then gained enabled him in 

 1869 to initiate Nature, which flourishes to this day. 



During this year Huxley became a Fellow of the 

 Linnean Society, and was elected a member of the 

 Athenseum Club under the " Distinguished Persons 

 Rule." His proposer for the latter was Sir R. J. 

 Murchison : eighteen out of nineteen voted for the pro- 

 position, and no one against it. 



Much of the scientific work for 1858 is embodied in 

 the following memoirs : — 



1. " On Cephalaspis and Pteraspis" (Q. J. Geol. Soc, 

 xiv, 1858, pp. 267-80. Sci. Mem., i, xlvii, p. 502). — 

 The structure of these extraordinary fossil forms, which 

 we now know to be of lower grade than fishes, is care- 

 fully discussed, and their possible affinities with certain 

 members of the group of ordinary bony fishes are pointed 

 out. 



2. " Observations on the Genus Pteraspis " (Brit. 

 Assoc. Rep., 1858, Part 2, pp. 82-3. Sci. Mem., i, 



