4 T. W. E. DAVID. 
-sington, which appointment he held at the time of hisdeath. He 
was made a member of the Privy Council in 1892. 
Of his published works, the following may be specially 
mentioned :—“ Oceanic Hydrozoa,” ‘Lessons in Elementary 
Physiology,” “Introduction to the Classification of Animals,” 
*‘ Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews,” ‘‘ Anatomy of the 
Vertebrata,” ‘Anatomy of the Invertebrata,” “ Practical 
Biology,” ‘‘Man’s Place in Nature,” ‘*The Crayfish,” ‘ Physio- 
graphy : 
Of the one hundred and fourty-four papers contributed by him, 
two relate specially to Australian subjects, viz. :—‘‘On some 
Amphibian and Reptilian Remains from South Africa and 
Australia,”! and “On the Premolar Teeth of Diprotodon.”® In 
recognition of this work our Society conferred upon him the 
Clarke Memorial Medal in 1880. 
» 
Memorable as have been the services which he has rendered to 
biology, he will perhaps be held in memory by the world at large 
as the man who taught the doctrine of Darwin in a tongue that 
the people understood. A master of English prose, unrivalled as 
a lecturer and debater, and earnest in the pursuit of truth, he 
Ce he 
controversialist, 
proved himself on all occasions a most f 
but he did not forget while he warred down the proud to spare 
the vanquished, and consequently though many fought him it 
may be doubted whether he had any true foes. I trust I may 
be allowed to quote in conclusion the following from the Pall Mall 
Gazette :—“ Four kings laboured to build a mighty hall, the Hall 
of a Hundred Columns at Karnak. In a century they built it, 
and they died ; but the hall remains. Four men (Darwin, Tyn- 
dall, Huxley, Spencer) more than all others have raised up 
within this century an edifice which is the crowning glory of 
British science, and before the century closes three of them are 
dead ; but the edifice stands and will stand, as a lasting monu- 
ment to the power of truth and fearless investigation.” 
1 Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., 1859. 2 Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., 1862. 
