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of that tenacity of purpose which has another name ; and I felt 

 sure that all the evil things prophesied would not be so painful 

 to me as the giving up that which I had resolved to do, upon 

 grounds which I conceived to be right. . . . The Boreas of 

 criticism blew his hardest blasts of misrepresentation and ridicule 

 for some years ; and I was even as one of the wicked. Indeed, 

 it surprises me, at times, to think how any one who had sunk 

 so low could since have emerged into, at any rate, relative 

 respectability." 



The year was spent in vigorous continuance of the 

 numerous varieties of work already begun, much time 

 being spent during the summer and autumn on the duties 

 of the Fishery Commission. One important memoir was 

 completed, — " On the Osteology of the Genus 

 Glyptodon," the gigantic extinct armadillo of South 

 America (Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc, civ, 1865, pp. 31-70. 

 Sci. Mem., iii, in, p. 37). This was received by the 

 Royal Society at the end of December, but not read till 

 the following month. 



The death of Huxley's brother George in August 

 removed one who had in many ways lightened the burden 

 of his early struggles for a foothold in the scientific world. 



1864. 



During this year still more time was given to fishery 

 work, and there is also evidence of increasing interest in 

 ethnological matters. The contributions to science were 

 very considerable in amount. 



The first volume of the Lectures on Comparative Anatomy 

 (the only one published), which had been so long in pre- 

 paration (see p. 68), at last made its appearance, and also 

 an Atlas of Osteology, another product of the same line of 

 activity. 



An essay entitled "Criticisms on the Origin of 



