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an unrivalled critical faculty, he uncompromisingly 

 attacked the dogmatic statements of some of his fellow- 

 members, and himself contributed the following three 

 papers : — i. " The Views of Hume, Kant, and "Whately 

 on the logical basis of the doctrine of the Immortality of 

 the Soul" (November 17, 1869); 2. "Has a Frog a 

 Soul ? and if so, of what Nature is that Soul ? " 

 (November 8, 1870); 3. " Evidence of the Miracle of 

 the Resurrection" (January 11, 1876). 



Huxley was President of the Geological and Ethno- 

 logical Societies in 1 869, and at the Exeter Meeting of 

 the British Association was elected as President for the 

 following year, Liverpool being adopted as the place to 

 be visited. The still increasing quantity of work in 

 which he was immersed obliged him to resign the 

 Hunterian Professorship at the Royal College of 

 Surgeons. The following list of memoirs for the year 

 will give some idea of his scientific activity at this 

 time. 



I. "The Anniversary Address of the President" (Q. 

 J. Geol. Soc, XXV. 1869, pp. xxviii,-liii. Delivered 

 February 19, 1869. Sci. Mem., iii, xxiii, p. 397. Coll. 

 Essays, as "Geological Reform," viii, p. 305).— This 

 paid the usual tributes to the memories of deceased 

 Fellows, including in this case Bouchers de Perthes and 

 M. A. Morlot, eminent workers on prehistoric man in 

 France and Switzerland, Principal Forbes and Sir David 

 Brewster. The address itself was on the subject of 

 " Geological Reform," and had reference to the time- 

 limits which Sir William Thomson (now Lord Kelvin), 

 from the physical standpoint, had imposed upon geology 

 in his work "On Geological Time" (Trans. Geol. Soc, 

 Glasgow, iii). While admitting the necessity for accept- 

 ing time-limits of the kind, Huxley put forward a caveat 



