ANNIVERSARY ADDRESS. 3 
literature and medicine, reading privately. Subsequently he 
attended lectures at the Medical School, Charing Cross Hospital, 
taking his degree of M.B. in 1845 with honours in physiology. 
In 1846 he was appointed Assistant-Surgeon to H.M.S. 
“Victory,” and a few months later he accepted the position 
of Assistant-Surgeon to H.M.S. “Rattlesnake.” The voyage 
lasted from 1847 to 1850, during part of which time Huxley was 
stationed on the east coast of Australia, his ship being engaged 
ina survey of the passage between the Barrier Reef and the 
_ main land, and of the sea between the northern extremity of the 
_ Barrier Reef and New Guinea. It was here that he commenced 
_ that series of zoological studies which were soon destined to make 
him so famous. The results of his researches during this three 
_ years’ voyage were published by the Linnean and Royal Societies, 
and a year after his return to England, in 1851, when he was 
_ barely twenty-six years of age, he was elected a Fellow of the 
- Royal Society. 
_ In 1854 he became Peclcastr of Natural History including 
_ Paleontology at the Royal School of Mines, and Curator of the 
_ Fossil Collections at the Museum of Geology at Jermyn-street, 
also Tullerian Professor of Physiology and Comparative Anatomy 
to the University of London. In 1858 he was appointed Croonian 
Lecturer to the Royal Society, when he delivered his celebrated 
address on ‘‘ The Theory of the Vertebrate Skull.” During 1860 
Huxley delivered his course of lectures on “ The Relation of Man 
to the Lower Animals.” In 1862, 1869, and 1870 he delivered 
_ three presidential addresses to the Geological Society of London. 
From 1863 to 1870 he was Hunterian Professor of Comparative 
_ Anatomy in the Royal College of Surgeons, and in 1869-70 was 
President of the Ethnological Society. 
He was Secretary to the Royal Society from 1871-1880, and 
President from 1883-85. In 1876 he delivered several lectures 
in America. In 1885 failing health compelled him to retire, and 
he resigned all his appointments except that of Dean and Honorary 
Professor of Biology in the Royal College of Science, ies Ken- 
