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The era of zoological parks, such as the 250 

 acres included in the new gardens at New York, 

 had not yet then begun. But the present tendency 

 of menagerie management is entirely in the direc- 

 tion recommended. 



On June 21 Flower received a letter from Lord 

 Salisbury stating that he had "great pleasure in 

 informing him that Her Majesty has been pleased 

 on this occasion to confer on him the honour of 

 Companion of the Bath in recognition of his dis- 

 tinguished services to science." On the news of 

 this Huxley wrote : — 



Mv DEAR Flower — I am very glad to see the C.B. in the 

 Times this morning. There should have been a K before it, 

 but the K is to Kome. 



With our united kind regards and congratulations to Mrs. 

 Flower and yourself, ever yours very truly, 



T. H. Huxley. 



In this year he was elected an Honorary Member 

 of the Academy of Science of New York, of the 

 Zoological Society of Amsterdam, and of the 

 Imperial Society of the, Naturalists of Moscow. 



His chief public function was the opening, on 

 June 30, 1888, of what has recently proved to be 

 one of the most useful institutions of its kind in 

 the country, the Marine Biological Laboratory at 

 Plymouth. The uses to which such an institution 

 could be put, both for science and business, were 

 clear from the success of the fine Marine Laboratory 

 of the kind presided over by Dr. Dohrn at Naples. 



