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plan in the thousands and thousands of diverse living constructions, 

 and the modifications of similar apparatus to serve diverse ends." 

 And there can be little doubt but that had a suitable opening offered 

 itself, he would have thrown himself into a distinctly physiological 

 career, and the advancement of morphology, due to him, would have 

 been limited to the " Rattlesnake " work. But this was not to be. 

 Though his leanings towards physiology pure and simple broke out at 

 times, as in various lectures and addresses, and in the publication of 

 the little work on " Elementary Physiology," and were shown all his 

 life long in the helping hand and warm sympathy which he always 

 gave to all physiological inquiries, and to all physiological workers, 

 his work in life was destined to be mainly limited to morphology, 

 and conspicuously to the elucidation of the fossils " for which he did 

 not care." 



The emoluments of the post of Lecturer on Natural History at the 

 School were but scanty ; but they gave Huxley a pied a terre, and, 

 moreover, the sagacious I)e la Beche, foreseeing, it would seem, 

 Huxley's future relations to fossils more clearly than he did himself, 

 since he had refused the post of Palaeontologist to the Survey, found 

 for him in April of the following year, 1855, a special place as 

 Naturalist to the Survey, by which a more suitable income was pro- 

 vided for him while an internal arrangement distinguished his duties 

 towards the fossils in the Geological Museum from those of the proper 

 Palaeontologist to the Survey, Mr. Salter. Thus, though he had (to 

 the great benefit of palaeontology) official relations to the fossils of the 

 Survey, relations which were more precisely defined a little later on — 

 in 1861, by De la Beche's successor, Sir Roderick Murchison — Huxley 

 was never technically Palaeontologist to the Survey. 



For science and the world at large the important thing is that by 

 the appointment Huxley's career was assured. And the income which 

 by this settled appointment and by other efforts he was able to secure, 

 justified him, he thought, in offering a home to the lady whom he had 

 first met in 1847, whom he had since seen fitfully in the Rattle- 

 snake's visits to Sydney, and whom he had left in that city, in 1850. 

 She at once came to England, and on July 21, 1855, they were 

 married. 



For many years afterwards Huxley's life, so far as outward things 

 are concerned, was the ordinary life of a professional man of science 

 in London. He did his duty as Lecturer at the School, and as 

 Naturalist to the Survey, and those who listened to his lectures, and 

 were capable of appreciating them, were witness to the zeal and 

 energy with which he threw himself into the exposition of the new 

 morphology. He as zealously carried out the other scientific duties 

 which came in his way, whether accompanied by emolument or no. 

 Very shortly after his appearance in London, on April 30, 1852, he 



