, 1881-07-31
PROF. HUXLEY'S SALARIES,
Their Surprising Number and Some
Satire About u 'Devclopnlent.''
Letter to the London Standard

| Their Surprising Number and Some
Satire About q 'Devclopnlent.''
Letter to the London Standard
Much surprise Is felt in professional and
scientific circles at the announcement made on
Saturday that Prot. Huxley has consented to be
nominated US candidate for tho Linacre Pro-
fessorshp OF Physiology at Oxford, the salary Of
which is Ea00 per aunu1n, and which is held in
conjunction with the Tomlin Prelectorship Of
Anatomy, and tho Aldrichian Professorship Of
Anatomy. tho salaries attached to the two latter
Profcssorships being, however, saddlcd with
salaries to subordtnates. The pcrplexity caused
by the announcement is due to the fact that
Prof. Huxley has very recently been appointed
to tho Iuspectorship Of Salmon Fisheries SALARY
4700), vacant by the death Of the late Mr:
Frank bnekiand ,o l. vas then p pre51nea ne
vacated one If not both the appointments ho
holds in Jcrnyu street and South kenstngton--
viz; the post Of Naturalist to the Geological
Survey, the salary ntrachcd to which is s6v0, and
that Of Professor Of Natural History to the loyal
School Of Mines and Museum OF Practical Geol-
formed ut South Kcustngton. the .salary to the
latter appointment being 100, which was sup
picmented III 1850 by LIST 16s Sd for students
Besides These public appointments, Prof. Hu1-
ley IS in receipt Of .E:saU per uunum us Secre-
rary to the Royal Society. Now, remembering
sailed by tue school Of which Mr. Huxley has
long been Il lending member, it does SAVIOR
somewhat OF Inconsistency TINT this gentleman
should have deyeioped-t' Darwutanly,' and by
tho regular process Of natural SELECTION no
doubt-iuto a very pronounced example Of otl-
ciul and scientific plurnlfsu. But did the mnt-
ter rest here no more would have been said on
the subject
It Prot Huxley intends, in the event of being
appointed to succeed DR.. Rollestou, to racAte
his london appointments, save and except his
professorship, the retention Of which would not
be Incompatible with bis efficiently performing
his duties ut Oxford, no one i'll London, at all
r frtrC "a ~ hH
has been selected for q post which he is compe-
tent fill; hut before appointing him it will be
well for the Archbishop oE Canterbury, tho
Warden Of Merton, and the Presidents of the
Royal Colleges Of Physicians and Surgeons and
tho Koynl Society, who elect. to ascertain very
clearly Prof. Huxleys intentions on this point,
or they will be us justly blamed by the public
md the University as vii! he the heads Of the
Government departments to which he Is at
tacned. If they permit him to nuke q sinecure
Of public appointments from which ne Is draw
fuE an income more than double that Of our
great master in auutomy and paleontoiogy,
Richard Owen.
Prof. Oweu's salary Us Superintendent Of the
Natural History Department Of the British Mu-
scum is but ESSOO u year. and he holds no other
post th,lu this, from which he is rnrety absent
Prof. Huxley receives .EG00 year for the an
aiogous post NJ Jer1uyn street, from which bis
abscuce In propriu persona IS the rule. while his
other public moneys reach El,l6t. or there
nbolts, to say nothing Of the Zoo from the Royal
Society.