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specialists, the outcome of gradually increasing tension, 

 for which Huxley was in nowise to blame. The im- 

 portance of the memoir was long after summarized 

 by Sir Michael Foster in his Obituary Notice of the 

 author : — 



" This lecture marked an epoch in England in vertebrate 

 morphology, and the views enunciated in it carried forward, if 

 somewhat modified, as they have been, not only by Huxley's 

 subsequent researches, and by those of his disciples, but especi- 

 ally by the splendid work of Gegenbaur, are still, in the main, 

 the views of the anatomists of to-day" (Proc. Roy. Soc, lix, 

 1895-6, p. liv). 



