The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-30
NOTED AS A SCIENTIST.
Lectures on nThe Relation of
Man to the Lower
Animal"
FIRST TO ATTRACT THE WORLD.
Many Degrees and Honors Paid
Him by Learned Men Of
the Nations.

LONDON, Eng, June 29.-An exchange
telegram announces, the death of Profess
sor Huxley at Eastbourne, at $40 o'clock
this afternoon.
After slight rally last night Professor
Huxley's condition grew rapidly worse,
and he fell into q state of complete exhaus-
ton. His mind was clear to the last, and
his death was painless.
Thomas Henry Huxley LID, Ph.D.,
D. G. L., MD, F. C. S., Eng, F. r. S.,
was born May "a, 1925, at Ealing, Middle
sex, and was for some years educated at
the school in his native parish, where his
father was one of the masters. This pre-
paratory course was followed by industri-
Gus private studies, including German sci
entifc literature, and medical instructions
received from q brother-in-law. who was a
physician. Afterward he attended lectures
at the medical school of the Charing Cross
Hospital. In 1845 he passed the first ex-
animation for the degree of Md, at the
University of London, and took honors in
physiology.
Having passed the requisite examination
he was, in 1916, appointed Assistant Sur
geon to H. M. S. Victory for services at
Haslar Hospital. His next appointment
was as Assistant Surgeon to H. M. s. Rat
tlesnake, and he spent the greater part of
the time from 1S47 to 1850 off the eastern
and northern coasts of Australia. Huxley
returned TO England in 1850, and in the
following year he was elected Fellow Of
the Royal Society. In 1852 one of the
royal me6 ais annually given by the society
was awarded to him. In 1854 he was ap-
pointed professor of natural history, in
Guiding paleontology at the Royal School
OF Mines in Jermyn street, and in the
same year Fullerian professor of physi-
ology to the Royal Institution and exam
iner in physiology and comparative anat-
omy to the University of London.
In 1856 he accompanied his friend, DR.,
Tyndall in his first visit to the Alps. When
in 1860 it became Professor Huxley's duty
to give one of the courses of lectures to
the workingmen in Jermyn street he Sc
leeted for his subject 1.-The Relation of
Man to the Lower Animal" Mr. Darwin's
views on the origin of species were the SUBJ
jects of Professor Hu1ley's lectures to the
workingmen in 1852, which have been pub
lished under the title of Lectures on Our
knowledge of the Causes of the Phenomena
of Organic Nature"
In 1862, in consequence of the absence
the president, it devolved on Mr.. Huxley,
who was then one of the secretaries of the
Geological Society and president of Section
D at the meeting of the British Society, to
deliver the annual address to the Geologi-
cal Society, and at. the meeting of the
British Association at Cambridge he gave
an essay on the conditions and Prospects
of Biological Science
He became president of the Geological
aud chronological Society in 1869 and 1870.
and presided over the meeting of the Brit
ish Association held at Liverpool in 1870.
He was elected Lord Rector of Aberdeen
University in 1872 for three years, and in
stalled February II, 1874. In 1876 he re-
ceived the Wollaston medal of the Geolosi-
cal Society. He received the degree of
Ph.D. from the University of Breslau, MD.
from the University of Wurzburg, LID.
from the University of Edinburgh Dublin
1S78) and Cambridge (1s79); Del. from
the University of Oxford QSS5), and he
was elected Fellow of the Royal College
of Surgeons in 1884. He was a knight of
the Polar Star of Sweden, purely scien-
titc distinction, and was for some years
Fellow of Elton College and member of
the governing body of that school. He was
trustee of the British Museum and
member of the Senate of the University of
London.
In 1881 he was appointed Inspector of
Salmon Fisheries, at first in conjunction
with Spencer Walpole, but afterward alone.
In June. 1879, the French Academy of Sci
ences elected Professor Huxley a CORE
spending member of the section of
anatomy in zoology, in the place of the
late Karl E. Won Baer. On July 5, 1883, he
was chosen president of the Royal Society,
in place of the late Mr.. Spottiswoods, and
in the same year he was elected by the
Council of the United States National
Academy as one of their foreign members.
He delivered the Rede lecture at Cam
bridge, June IL, 1885, the subject being.
THE Origin of the Existing Forms of Ami
NAL Construction or Evolution"
In 1885 Professor Huxley resigned his
official duties, including the Inspectorship
of Fisheries and the presidency of the
Royal Society.
Professor Huxley was well known as
writer of natural science, being the author
of numerous papers published in the trans
actions and journals of the Royal, the
Linnean, the Geological and the Zoolori-
cal societies and the memoirs of the geo
logical survey of Great Britain. In addi-
ton to the works mentioned he has writ
ten: "Lessonsin Elementary Physiology, ;"
1866 and many subsequent editions; s.An
Introduction to the Classification of Ami
mails" 1859; Lay Sermons, Addresses
and Reviews" 1870; manual of Anatomy
of Vertebrated Animals" 1871; "Critioues
and Addresses" 1873; American Ad.
dresses" with lecture on the subject of
biology, 1877; photography" an intro
duction to the study of nature. 1877; .Anat-
omy of Vertebrated Animals 1877; ''The
Craytish," an introduction to the study
of zoology, 1879; Hume" 1879; an intro
duction to the "Science Primers" 1880.
and Science and Culture and other es-
says, 1882.
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