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years a kind of secret manual for other professors and lecturers on the 
subject. Those who regretted that his Manual of the Anatomy of 
Vertebrated Animals (1871) and the Anatomy of Invertebrated Animals 
(1877) were hardly up to date would, had they used his lectures in 1856, 
have found that he was then as much before as afterwards he appeared to 
be behind the time. With regard to some of his other works we may 
speak very differently. His Lessons in Elementary Physiology, first 
published in 1866, was, even to many medical men, a revelation as to the 
amount of physiological knowledge which had been certainly acquired ; 
secondly, in the work which, in conjunction with Dr. Martin, he wrote 
on Practical Biology, he gave an enormous impetus to that practical 
teaching in biological laboratories, without which no biological student’s 
education is now considered to be complete. It is impossible to repro- 
duce a list of the numerous essays and memoirs which Prof. Huxley 
published. Perhaps the most notable of all are those in which, dealing 
largely with already well-known facts, conclusions were deduced from 
them which at once put investigators on a higher plane. One of his 
earliest contributions (1853) was published in the first volume of the 
new series of the Transactions of this Society (pp. 1-19, 3 pis.), and was 
entitled “ Lacinularia socialis. A Contribution to the Anatomy and 
Physiology of the Rotifera.” In 1858 he gave his famous Croonian 
lecture in which the vertebral theory of the skull, to which Owen had 
devoted so much time, was completely destroyed. In 1863 he published 
c Man’s Place in Nature,’ and only those who were alive at the time have 
any idea of the storm which raged around his head. In it he carried 
to their logical conclusions the doctrines of which for four years he had 
been the chief prophet, the doctrines that are contained in Mr. Darwin’s 
4 Origin of Species.’ This is not the place to speak of Mr. Huxley’s 
relations with the great philosopher of our age, but it must be said that 
all personal and private considerations were put aside in his efforts to 
aid Mr. Darwin in promulgating the doctrine of natural selection and 
the conclusions which flowed from it. Professor Huxley was professor 
not only at the School of Mines, he was for some years Hunterian Pro- 
fessor at the College of Surgeons, and for some time also Fullerian 
Professor of Physiology at the Royal Institution. In 1869 he was 
President of the Geological Society, and in 1870 of the Ethnological 
Society. In 1870 he was also President of the British Association, and 
in 1873 was Lord Rector of Aberdeen. Of the Royal Society, Huxley 
was elected a Fellow in 1851 ; in 1873 he was made a secretary, and in 
1883 he became its president. The two most important honours that 
were conferred on him in late years were his nomination to the Privy 
Council, whereby he became a Right Honourable, and a Trusteeship of 
the British Museum. It was not till 1891 that he was made an Honorary 
Fellow of this Society. 
Although we have confined ourselves to summarising the chief events 
in Prof. Huxley’s life as a naturalist, it is not to be forgotten that 
by his services on the London School Board, by his criticism of the 
methods of the Salvation Army, and by his services on various Royal 
Commissions, he did more than most men do for society at large. He 
was buried on July 4th, at East Finchley Cemetery, and, by order of 
the Council, this Society was represented by its Secretaries. 
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