8o THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY 



2. "On a Collection of Vertebrate Fossils from the 

 Panchet Rocks, Ranigunj, Bengal " (Mem. Geol. Survey, 

 India; Palaeontologica Indica, i, 1865-85, pp. 3-24. 

 Sci. Mem. iii, v, p. 90). — This memoir deals with a 

 number of fragmentary remains belonging to members of 

 extinct groups of Amphibia and Reptilia. 



To the same year belongs the " Explanatory Preface 

 to the Catalogue of the Palseontological Collection in the 

 Museum of Practical Geology," which includes a " Brief 

 Exposition of certain Principles of Natural History," and 

 the " Application of Natural History to the Elucida- 

 tion of Fossils, or Palaeontology" (Sci. Mem., iii, vii, 

 p. 125). 



1866. 



Up to 1866 Huxley's work had received no academic 

 recognition in Britain, but on April 2, of that year, the 

 LL.D. (honoris causa) of Edinburgh was conferred upon 

 him, in company with Tyndall and Carlyle, the one his 

 intimate friend, and the other a man whose writings had 

 long before played an important part in the formation of 

 his character (see p. 3). 



The love of fair-play which Haxley consistently dis- 

 played under all circumstances was illustrated this year 

 by his becoming a member of the Jamaica Committee. 

 The object of this was to prosecute Governor Eyre for 

 murder, he having summarily executed a negro named 

 Gordon, who was concerned in a rising of the coloured 

 population of the island. The affair excited extraordinary 

 interest in this country, and gave rise to no little feeling. 

 Many men of distinction joined the committee, while 

 others organized a counter-committee for the defence of 

 Eyre. 



