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From time to time lie sent home to the Linnean Society papers 

 embodying the results of his researches. One on Physalia was read 

 in November and December, 1849, and another, on Diphyes was read 

 at intervals from January, 1849, to February, 1850, and of each the 

 briefest abstracts appeared in the £ Proceedings,' the author being 

 erroneously named William Huxley. The fall papers remained 

 under consideration until September, 1851, when the MSS. of both 

 were, at the author's request, returned to him. With the exception of 

 a small note on the blood of Amphioxus which appeared in the 

 • British Association Reports ' for 1847, and which recorded observa- 

 tions made in the previous autumn while he was still at Haslar, the 

 only papers of his which were published before his return to England 

 in November, 1850, were, in the first place, the memoir "On the 

 Anatomy and Affinities of the Family of the Medusae," which had 

 been communicated to the Royal Society by the Bishop of Norwich 

 (to whom, at Captain Stanley's suggestion, he had sent the MS.), 

 and published in the ' Philosophical Transactions ' for 1849, and, in 

 the second place, shorter communications on Trigonia, on Firola and 

 Atlantis, and on Medusae, which appeared in the ' Proceedings of 

 the Zoological Socigf.y,' the 'Annales des Sciences Naturelles,' and 

 the ' Annals and Magazine of Natural History,' during the year 

 1850. 



The " Rattlesnake " having been paid off, Huxley applied to the 

 Admiralty to be "borne on the books" of H.M.S. " Fisgard " at 

 Woolwich, that is to say, to be appointed Assistant- Surgeon to the 

 ship " for particular service," so that he " should not be obliged to 

 remain on board, but might live in town and work up " the observa- 

 tions made during the voyage " into a well-digested and consistent 

 whole." In a letter to Sir W. Burnett, who remained his staunch 

 friend, he described the investigations which he thus desired to 

 elaborate as being chiefly those on the anatomy of certain Gasteropod 

 and Pteropod Mollusca, of Firola and Atlantis, of Salpa and Pyro- 

 soma, of two new Ascidians, namely, Appendicularia and Doliolum, of 

 Sagitta and certain Annelids, of the auditory and circulatory organs 

 in certain transparent Crustacea, and of the Medusae and Polypes ; of 

 the latter he had carefully examined and figured species of between 

 40 and 50 genera. 



The request was granted. For the next three years Huxley, 

 nominally a navy surgeon, lived in London with his brother, George 

 Huxley, devoting his time to the purpose just mentioned ; and during 

 the years 1851-3 he published the results of his labours in numerous 

 papers, the most important of which are the memoirs on Salpa and 

 Pyrosoma, on Appendicularia and Doliolum, and on the morphology 

 of the Cephalous Mollusca, which appeared in the ' Philosophical 

 Transactions ' for 1851 and 1853. 



