The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-12-20

of amicable squabbles among the royal COM
missioners for the Huxley sketches-the
rough but spirited designs with which his
share of the reports were plentifully be-
sprinkled.
His schooldays were very short, and, as
he appears in those days to have had the
greatest distaste to application, they may
be said to have been unsatisfactory. He
was only fourteen years of age when, much
against his will, he commenced the study
OF medicine, under the guidance of a rela-
tlon; his own earnest desire having always
been to become mechanical engineer. Med
lclne as healing art possessed no attrac-
ton for him but physiology, the mechanical
engineering of human beings" as he calls
1T, soon became an engrossing study, and III
1S45 he took his NJ. b. at London univer-
sity, with hOnors in physiology and was ap-
pointed assistant surgeon at Haslar hos
pital. Here he worked some months under
Sir John Richardson, the wellknown A"c-
tic traveller, who ultimately obtained FOR
young Huxley post IN III. Nj. ). Rattle
snake, then bound on long voyage to the
northern and eastern shores of Australia.
The voyage lasted four years during which
time the ship was almost completely cut off
from all communications with home, and
was, indeed, for months at q time outside
the pale Of all civilization.
These four years may be considered as
the most valuable of his early life, for not
only did his scientific studies proceed apace
and his experience of life grow with each
new discovery, but it was to him also a
time of severe physical and moral training
On board ship he l. armed what neither
schooling nor hospital routine had succeeded
in teaching him-the love of work, even for
the drugery of it, for the sake of the in
trinsic good to be got out of it.
In 1919 an elaborate paper was received
from him by the royal society and by that
body printed and published although the
young author, still cruising on the high seas,
remained in ignorance of the gratifying
fact until his return to England at the end
of the following year
In 1854 Mr. Tinkley was married, after
an engagement that had lasted eight years,
to the gentle lady to whose companionship
SO much OF the happiness and brightness
OF the EastbOurne house is due and at the
same time he severed his connection with
the naval medical service and was APP
pointed professor OF natural history and
paleontOlogist at the school of mines in
Jermyn street. This post he originally &C
cepted as temporary one until he should
obtain a vacant profeSsorship either Of
physiology or OF comparative anatomy. He
held 1t. however, for no less than thirty
one years, not relnquishing it even in
1SG9, when the college of surgeons did
elect him their professor of comparative
anatomy.
As early as the year 1852 he delivered
his first public lecture to Friday evening
audience at the Royal institution; in 1888
he became Croonian lecturer, taking as
his subject, The Theory of the Verte-
brate Skull" Then came the lecture to
workingmen, on MANS Place in Nature:
His Reladons to the Lower Animals" and
on The origin of Species" which had re-
Gently appeared. Then several Important
works We're published in rapid succession
while universities and learned societies,
both at home and abroad, contended for the
honor of enrolling him among their mem
bers
In $50 he became a member of the
London school board, taking a conspicuous
position by. his attacks on UNCONVENTIONAL
education, by his attitude of "untirine on
position to that ecclesiastical spirit. that
clericallsm, which in England as everv-
where else, and to whatever denomination
it may belong, is the deadly enemy of
science.
Two years later ill-heaIth compeIled him
to retire from the school board and he then
undertook the duties of lord rector of Aber-
deem university and of secretary of the Roy
al Society, devoting all his leisure to the
pupilcatlQn OF works on natural science.
one of which appeared almost annually
More recently Professor Huxley has been
included in many of the government and
royal commissions formed to report upon
fisheries The was inspector of fisheries in
1SS1. science viTisection, conta giOus dis
eases, etc. and in 1883 he attained what he
himself considers his highest position, that
of president of the Royal Society.
Unfortunately another couple of years
saw him again in failing health and Obliged
to resign this and all other public offices,
and to submit to his doctors orders of COM
plete rest and change. He retained only his
old post at the school of mines, devotng
himself more assiduously than ever to the
controversial questions of the day, and CON
tributing many valuable papers to current
literature, in the shape of letters to The
Times. and articles in The Nineteenth Cen
fury Magazine.
II is only a few days since he kissed
hands at Osborne on receiving the title OF
THE Right honorable" as meber OF her
maiostv's nrivy council. He enjoys the dis
tinction of being the first priyy councillor to
attained that honor without previously hold
ing some political appointment. IT IS Il Wor-
thy recognition of the valuable services he
has rendered TO his country as a Sclen'iSt'
OVID hcjne to show how universally is the cS-
tpom in which he is held by all who can ap-
prpciate his great intellect and unWaVerihg
singleness of purpose.