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to come any nearer than we are at present to the truths which 

 he struggled to attain (Life, ii, p. 390. Extracted from the 

 Times report). 



While Darwin died full of years as well as honours, 

 the career of Francis Maitland Balfour, Professor of 

 Comparative Morphology at Cambridge, was cut short 

 at the age of thirty-one by a fall from the Aiguille 

 Blanche on Mont Blanc. With a scientific reputation 

 second to none, won more particularly in the department 

 of comparative embryology, many regarded Balfour as 

 the most likely zoologist to continue Huxley's work. In 

 a letter to Dohrn, dated September 24, 1882, Huxley 

 himself remarks : — 



" Heavy blows have fallen upon me this year in losing 

 Darwin and Balfour, the best of the old and the best of the 

 young. I am beginning to feel older than ray age myself, and 

 if Balfour had lived I should have cleared out of the way as 

 soon as possible, feeling that the future of Zoological Science 

 in this country was very safe in his hands " (Life, ii, p. 38). 



And Mr. Leonard Huxley says : — 



" Since the death of Edward Forbes, no loss outside the 

 circle of his family had affected my father so deeply. For 

 three days he was utterly prostrated, and was scarcely able 

 either to eat or sleep" (Life, ii, p. 37). 



Turning now to the utterances on education for the 

 year, we find an address " On Science and Art in Rela- 

 tion to Education," given to the members of the Liverpool 

 Institution (Coll. Essays, iii, p. 160). This "Hansar- 

 dises" an address previously given to the Liverpool 

 Philomathic Society (cf. p. 90), and disclaims any inten- 

 tion to promote the sweeping away of all forms of culture 

 and instruction except those of physical science : — 



" I have never yet met with any branch of human knowledge 



