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2. " On the Cranial and Dental Characters of the 

 Canidae" (Proc. Zool. Soc, 1880, pp. 238-88. Read April 

 6, 1880. Sci. Mem., iv, xxv, p. 404). 



To these must be added : — 



3. " On the Application of the Laws of Evolution to 

 the arrangement of the Vertebrata, and more particularly 

 of the Mammalia" (op. cit.,pp. 649-62. Read December 

 14, 1880. Sci. Mem., iv, xxvi, p. 457). In this memoir 

 stress is laid upon the guiding principles of excess and 

 defect of development, and it is proposed to divide 

 Mammals into four groups, />., Eutheria (higher forms), 

 Metatheria (pouched mammals), Prototheria (duck-mole 

 and spiny ant-eater), and Hypotheria (hypothetical primi- 

 tive types. 



1881. 



At the beginning of 1 881 Huxley was appointed to 

 the Inspectorship of Fisheries (salary £']o6), rendered 

 vacant by the death of Frank Buckland, and in October 

 his status at South Kensington underwent some altera- 

 tion. For the Royal School of Mines and Normal 

 School were united, and instead of being Lecturer on 

 General Natural History to the former, he became Pro- 

 fessor of Biology in and Dean of the new combination 

 (salary ^800). His work as Dean should have been 

 remunerated by an extra ;^200, but a thrifty Govern- 

 ment saved this by special arrangement. At the same 

 time, the long-standing connection with the Geological 

 Survey practically, though not nominally, came to an 

 end. 



Huxley's qualifications for the Inspectorship were, of 

 course, unquestionable, and his activity in that direction 

 is summarized in an account given by Sir Spencer Wal- 

 pole to Mr. Leonard Huxley (Life, ii, pp. 22-7), which 



