Thomas Henry Huxley. 181 
the American Association for the Advancement of Science at 
Buffalo, gave the opening address at the Johns Hopkins Uni- 
versity at Baltimore, another discourse in Nashville, where his 
sister resided, and after visiting the principal scientific centers 
of the country, he delivered three lectures in New York on the 
eve of his departure. These lectures, with his other discourses 
in this country, were subsequently published under the title, 
American Addresses. 
On his arrival in New York, in August, I met him there by 
appointment, and a day or two later, he came to New Haven 
to make me a long promised visit, and see my fossil treasures 
from the West. These he wished to examine before deliver- 
ing his course of lectures, and he devoted a week of hard labor 
to this object, during which time I gained new insight into his 
methods of work and the noble nature of the man himself. 
One instance, which illustrates both these points, Iam glad to 
place on record here. 
One of Huxley’s lectures in New York was to be on the 
genealogy of the horse, a subject which he had already written 
about, based entirely upon European specimens. My own 
explorations had led me to conclusions quite different from his, 
and my specimens seemed to me to prove conclusively that the 
horse originated in the New World and not in the Old, and 
that its genealogy must be worked out here. With some 
hesitation, I laid the whole matter frankly before Huxley, 
and he spent nearly two days going over my specimens with 
me, and testing each point I made. He then informed me 
that all this was new to him, and that my facts demonstrated 
the evolution of the horse beyond question, and for the first 
time indicated the direct line of descent of an existing animal. 
With the generosity of true greatness, he gave up his own 
opinions in the face of new truth, and took my conclusions as 
the basis of his famous New York lecture on the horse. He 
urged me to prepare without delay a volume on the genealogy 
of the horse, based upon the specimens I had shown him. This 
I promised, but other work and new duties have thus far 
prevented. 
During Huxley’s sojourn in America, I was fortunate enough 
to be with him on many occasions when he met all classes of 
the American people, many of whom had read his works and 
held him in high esteem. The impression he made upon rich 
and poor alike was a most agreeable one, and he returned home 
with a deep interest in America and its people and great hopes 
for its future. What seemed to impress him most of all, as an 
ethnologist, was the identity of the American race, especially 
in New England, with that of his own country, and he could 
detect no signs of that physical deterioration which our climate 
was supposed to have caused. 
