108 THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY 



with this comes the famous prophecy now completely 

 fulfilled:— 



"If the expectation raised by the splints of the horses that, 

 in some ancestor of the horses, these splints would be found to 

 be complete digits, has been verified, we are furnished with 

 very strong reasons for looking for a no less complete verifica- 

 tion of the expectation that the three-toed Plagiolophus-like 

 * avus ' of the horse must have had a five-toed ' atavus ' at some 

 earlier period." 



2. " On the Milk Dentition of Palaeotherium magnum " 

 [an extinct mammal related to the elephants] (Geol. Mag., 

 vii, 1870, pp. 153-5. Sci. Mem., iii, xxxv, p. $9$). 



3. "Triassic Dinosauria" (Nature, i, 1870, pp. 23-4. 

 Sci. Mem., iii, xxxvi, p. 599). 



4. " On the Ethnology of Britain " (J. Ethnol. Soc, 

 New Series, ii, 1870, pp. 382-4. Read May 10, 1870. 

 Sci. Mem., iii, xxxi, p. 551). Afterwards published in 

 the Contemporary Review under the title of " Some Fixed 

 Points in British Ethnology " (Coll. Essays, vii, p. 253). 



5. "Anniversary Address of the President" (op. cit., 

 pp. xvi-xxiv. Delivered May 24, 1870. Sci. Mem., 

 iii, xxxi 1, p. 554). — We gather from this that Huxley 

 was trying to bring about an amalgamation between the 

 Ethnological and Anthropological Societies, the aims of 

 which were practically the same. 



His views as to the racial nature of the inhabitants 

 of the west of England appear to have given offence to 

 an individual who attacked him in the Pall Mall Gazette, 

 under the nom de plume of " A Devonshire Man," and 

 unwisely launched into personalities, which elicited the 

 following withering retort : — 



" ' A Devonshire man ' is good enough to say of me that 

 ' cutting up monkeys is his forte, and cutting up men is his 



