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Books: The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Volume 3

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Genius.
--men of, a "sport".
--as an explosive power.

Gentians.
--study of, begun.
--continued.

"Geological Contemporaneity".

"Geological Reform".

Geological Society.
--Fellow of.
--elected Secretary.

Geological Survey, work on.

George, H., "Progress and Poverty".

German, knowledge of.

German speculation, research and style.

"Gigadibs".

Gilman, Professor D.C.

Glacier ice, paper on.

Gladstone, Professor J.H., account of Huxley's work on the School Board.

Gladstone, Right Hon. W.E.
--and Metaphysical Society.
--not an expert in metaphysics.
--the greatest intellect in Europe.
--reaction from.
--a graceful action.
--function of.
--attacks Huxley in the "Impregnable Rock of Holy Scripture".
--swine miracle.
--and Parnell.
--typical of the century?
--controversy with, on Genesis.
--estimate of.
--letter on--the ordeal of public criticism.
--revived by others.
--second controversy with.

Goethe.
--quoted.
--on "thatige Skepsis".
--his Aphorisms translated for the first number of "Nature".
--scientific insight of.

Golf, Huxley plays.

Goodsir, Dr. John, as man of science.

Gordon, C.G.
--ideas and character.
--why he did not have the African fever.

Gordon, G.W., executed by Eyre.

Gore, Canon.

Gosse, Edmund, anonymous reviewers.

Gould, F.J., letters to.

Grant, Dr.
--introduction to.
--as man of science.
--an early evolutionist.

Grant (friend of Dr. Dohrn).

Grant Duff, Sir M.
--letter from:
--possibilities of a political career for Huxley.
--Lord Rector of Aberdeen.

Granville, Lord.
--letter from:
--appoints Huxley on London University Senate: anecdote of Clay, the
whist player.
--a master of polished putting down.

Gray, Asa, misunderstanding of Darwin.
--appreciation of.

Gray, J.E.
--introduction to.
--support from.
--a zoological whirlwind.

Green, J.R., account of Huxley's speech at Oxford.

Green, T.H.

Green, of Leeds, to help in Men of Science Series.

Greene, Professor R.

Gregory, Sir W.H.
--with, in Egypt.
--Governor of Ceylon.

Greswell, Rev. Richard.

Grey, Albert, M.P., letter to, on Home Rule.

Griffith, Mr., Secretary British Association.

Grote, George, and titles.

Grove, Sir G., a criticism.

Gull, Sir W., and F.R.S.

Gunther, Dr.

Gutzlaff, saying of.

Haeckel, Professor Ernst.
--his Gastraea theory, dependent on Huxley's discoveries.
--Darwinism in Germany.
--unable to attend British Association, 1866.
--and Bathybius.
--Letters to:
--on reading "Die Radiolarien".
--dissuades him from joining Arctic expedition: Darwinism: philological
evidence in ethnology.
--on his "Morphologie": controversy.
--marriage: classification of birds: handwriting.
--von Baer's Copley: reptiles and birds.
--translation of his "Morphologie": influence of children.
--notice of the "Anthropogenie": attack on Darwin in the "Quarterly":
Amphioxus and the primitive vertebrate.
--"Rattlesnake" "collection": his "Medusae" unpublished: Crayfish:
Spirula: his children.

Hahn, Father, reminiscences of Huxley's impartiality in teaching.

Hamilton, on the unconditioned.

Hand, lecture on.

Harcourt, Sir W., letter to, suppression of physiological experiment.

Hardwicke, printer.

Harrison, F.
--in Metaphysical Society.
--attacks agnosticism.
--controversy with: the "Apologetic Irenicon".
--attack of, philosophically borne.

Harrison, J. letter to: science and agriculture.

Hartington, Lord.
--science should be aided like the army and navy.
--technical education.
--letter to: Deceased Wife's Sister Bill.

Hartismere, Lord, Vivisection Bill.

Harvey.
--lecture on.
--article on.
--tercentenary.

Haughton, Professor S., leaves "Natural History Review".

Hay, Sir John, visit to, at Tangier.

Head, Francis, "javelins".

Healy, T., and Parnell.

Heathorn, Henrietta Anne (see Mrs. T.H. Huxley).
--engagement.
--description of.
--remote prospect of marriage.
--arrives in England.

Heathorn, Mrs.

Helmholtz.

Helps, Sir A.

Henslow, Professor.
--death of.
--relation to Darwin.

Herring.
--memoir on.
--experiments as to the spawning of.
--address on.

Herschel, Sir John.

Hesitation, no good ever done by.

Hippocampus.

Hird, Dr., presents testimonial to.

Hirst, Thomas Archer.
--and x Club
--character of.
--Royal Medal.
--illness of.
--death of.

Histology, work on.

Historical Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, presentation to Huxley.

Hobhouse, Lord, Huxley secures intellectual freedom.

Hockenhull, Swanus de, ancestor of the family of Huxley.

Holiday, work.
--borne well.
--definition of.

Holland, Sir Henry, on Plato.

Home Rule, letter to A. Grey.

Hooker, Sir J.D., his case a precedent.
--at Ipswich.
--at his marriage.
--on Snowdon with.
--relations with Darwin.
--on species.
--at Oxford, 1860.
--origin of friendship with.
--remonstrates with Huxley on excursions into philosophy.
--x Club.
--clubs not for the old.
--with Huxley in Brittany.
--President British Association.
--with Huxley in the Eifel.
--presentation to, at Liverpool.
--on Huxley's intellect.
--trouble with official chief.
--account of trip to the Auvergne.
--receives Order of the Pole Star.
--on Belfast meeting of British Association.
--unable to write obituary of Darwin.
--P.R.S.
--vigour of.
--his treatment by Government.
--friendship with.
--Royal Society's Medal.
--Huxley's love of the garden.
--Letters from:
--on his work on micro-organisms.
--Dana's obituary of Gray.
--Letters to:
--his selection for the Royal Medal.
--E. Forbes.
--his approaching marriage.
--submerged forest.
--British Museum Collections.
--science in the "Saturday Review".
--glacier paper.
--Swiss trip.
--election to Imp. Acad. Caes.: Fullerian Lectures.
--on criticism.
--approaching "Augustan Age" of English science.
--on his "Flora of Tasmania".
--on naturalists' fund.
--on "Times" review of the "Origin".
--on the Ape question.
--on "Punch" squib.
--his absence: Edinburgh lectures.
--Huxley's address at Geological Society.
--working-men's lectures, 1862: "Natural History Review".
--future leaders of science.
--christening.
--on "Natural History Review" and materialists.
--illness and death of Henslow.
--move to Kew: a poor client.
--science examinations.
--pressure of work.
--Science and Art Department examinations.
--Darwin's Copley Medal.
--on x Club.
--Medical men and F.R.S.
--distribution of gentians.
--Darwin and the "Quarterly" reviewers: chance and atheism.
--death of Symonds: gentians.
--the P.R.S. and politics.
--his Copley Medal.
--technical education address at Manchester.
--distribution of Coniferae.
--visit from H. Spencer.
--Trustee of the British Museum: story about Lowe: difficulty of the
"Origin".
--on Dana's obituary of Asa Gray: difficulty of the "Origin": primer of
Darwinismus.
--x Club breaking up.
--affection of the heart: Moseley's breakdown.
--Darwin obituary: possible senility.
--hybridism of gentians.
--visit from, before leaving London.
--a nomadic life or none: deafness: botanist should study distribution
in the Engadine.
--Copley Medal: friendship and saltwater experiences.
--x archives: a "household animal of value".
--Deceased Wife's Sister question.
--raison d'etre of clubs.
--applied science and the Royal Society.
--Academy dinner: portrait of Hooker.
--Monte Generoso: called an old gentleman: anxieties about children
when grown up: x Club subscription.
--return from Maloja.
--orchids and the influence of conditions: Balfour and R. C. University
for Ireland.
--possibility of becoming a pamphleteer.
--proposed trip to Canaries.
--Linnean Medal: trip to the Canaries.
--quietude of mind impossible, theologians keep him occupied.
--abuse over Salvation Army affair.
--Carpenter's "First Three Gospels": varieties of pleurisy: Parnell.
--Parnell and his followers.
--sick of controversy: Gladstone and his guides.
--Mr. Rich's legacy: seeks portrait of John Richardson.
--visits to Tyndall and Mrs. Darwin.
--French translation of essays on Darwinism.
--the Privy Councillorship: only remaining object of ambition.
--influenza and the x.
--funeral of Hirst.
--x Club.
--his grandchild on grown-up people and trouble.
--his sense of duty: death of Bowman.
--Owen's work: Hume and "being made a saint of".
--warning against overwork and influenza.
--at Maloja: boys and their accidents: collects essays: writes chapter
in Owen's "Life": illness of friends.
--Tyndall's death: reminiscences.
--the Antarctic continent: reminiscences of Tyndall: friendly words.
--chapter on Owen: a piece of antiquity.
--British Association at Oxford, 1894.
--Darwin Medal and "Nature" dinner.
--public speaking: a tenth volume of essays projected: returns to
philosophy: Greek and English.
--cause of giving up dissecting work: character of R. Strachey: Brian
and the brine.
--on Pithecanthropus.
--illness and constitutional toughness: Spencer and "pour le merite".
--reassures him against the pessimistic reports of his health.

Hooker, Sir William.

Horner, Leonard.

Horse.
--evolution of.
--pedigree of.
--recent additions to our knowledge of the pedigree of.

Howard, Cardinal.

Howell, George, M.P.
--letter to:
--"a man who did his best to help the people": technical education.

Howes, Professor G.B.
--helps in the new science teaching.
--extends text-book.
--on Huxley's drawings at South Kensington.
--unpublished work, Appendix 1.
--reminiscences.
--description of his lectures.
--Letter to: the scientific docker.

Hubrecht, Professor A., impression of Huxley.

Hull, lectures at.

Humboldt, receives a Royal Medal.

Hume.
--book on.
--his nearest approach to a work of fiction.

Hume.
--on miracles.
--his philosophical diamonds require setting.
--on impossibilities.

Humphry, Dr., Darwin's LL.D.

Hunterian Lectures.
--lectures the basis of his "Manual of Comparative Anatomy".
--resigns.

Hutton, R.H.
--on Vivisection Commission.
--and vivisection.

Huxley, Eliza. See Scott, Mrs.

Huxley, Ellen, marries Dr. Cooke.

Huxley, George, of Wyre Hall.

Huxley, George, sen.
--at Ealing.
--returns to Coventry.

Huxley, Mrs. George, senior (Rachel Withers), mother of T.H. Huxley.
--description of.
--love for.
--her death.
--Letters to:
--accommodation at sea.
--Rio.
--Mauritius.
--description of Miss Heathorn.
--Port Essington.
--announcing his return.

Huxley, George, jun.
--in Pyrenees with.
--lives with, for a time.
--death of.

Huxley, Mrs. George, jun.

Huxley, H., letter to, on his engagement.

Huxley, James Edmund.

Huxley, Jessie O. See also Waller, Mrs.

Huxley, L.
--letters to:
--on winning a scholarship.
--Fishery appointment.
--on Mastership of University College, Oxford.
--assassination of Lord F. Cavendish.
--pagan and papal Rome.
--teaching of history: Siena.
--system at Eton: Lake District Defence Society.
--hon. committee of French teachers.
--will not write on politics.
--Salvation Army: Mr. Sidgwick's rebuke to the "Speaker".
--on building a house.
--on his twenty-first birthday.

Huxley, Noel, death of.

Huxley, Samuel.

Huxley, Mrs. T.H. (see also H.A. Heathorn).
--his chief critic.
--Letters to:
--draws the sword.
--his lodgings.
--help from Burnett.
--successes.
--an unequal struggle.
--resolves to stay in London.
--British Association at Ipswich.
--jealousy of his rise.
--Royal Medal.
--succeeds Forbes.
--post at School of Mines.
--Coast Survey and Edinburgh chair.
--his future career.
--Aberdeen address.
--on British Association, Belfast.
--Lord Shaftesbury.
--Edinburgh lectures.
--second summer in Edinburgh.
--American trip.
--Scottish University Commission.
--spring in Edinburgh.
--article in the "Echo".
--Bright's speeches.
--greatness of Reaumur: speech on Darwin's LL.D.
--Professor Marsh's arrival.
--Fishery duties.
--International Medical Congress.
--proposed resignation.
--his stay at Ilkley.
--publication of "Science and Morals".
--effect of Ilkley.
--from Savernake.
--from the Canaries.
--ceremony of kissing hands, as P.C.
--good health in 1893.

Huxley, Thomas, grandfather of T.H. Huxley.

Huxley, T. H., incident at his birth.
--his mother, likeness to.
--devotion to.
--his childhood.
--faculty for drawing.
--school-days.
--early studies.
--blood-poisoning.
--learns German.
--boyish journal.
--at Rotherhithe.
--impressed by social problems.
--studies botany.
--wins a medal.
--at Charing Cross Hospital.
--his first discovery.
--interview with Faraday.
--career determined by Fayrer and Ransom.
--enters the Navy.
--joins the "Rattlesnake".
--his life on the "Rattlesnake".
--crossing the line.
--at Madeira.
--Rio.
--the first fruits of the voyage.
--at the Cape.
--Mauritius.
--Sydney.
--engaged to be married.
--importance of his work on the Medusae.
--among the Australian aborigines.
--with Kennedy.
--writes "Science at Sea".
--leaves Australia.
--impression of missionaries in New Zealand.
--at the Falklands.
--position in Navy.
--returns home.
--scientific recognition of.
--early friends in London.
--difficulties.
--elected F.R.S.
--misses the Royal Medal.
--dealings of the Government with, about his "Rattlesnake" work.
--leaves the Navy.
--list of early papers.
--stands for various professorships.
--writes for the "Westminster Review".
--delivers the Fullerian Lectures.
--succeeds Forbes.
--describes the scientific world of 1851.
--jealousy of.
--his first lecture.
--receives the Royal Society's Medal.
--morning incapacity.
--people he can deal with.
--lives by his pen.
--obtains a post in the School of Mines.
--and on the Geological Survey.
--openness of dealing with his friends, Hooker and Forbes.
--Carpenter.
--about a rejected memoir.
--refuses uncertain position at Edinburgh.
--prefers a scientific career in London.
--his principle of "having a row at starting".
--marriage.
--early work on the Invertebrata interrupted.
--paleontological work.
--British Museum Collections.
--on the value of a hundred a year.
--tries to organise a scientific review (see "Natural History Review").
--his wish to become a physiologist.
--writes on the Cell Theory and the Skull.
--ill-health during the fifties.
--tour in Switzerland.
--ascends Mont Blanc.
--work on glaciers.
--apparent desultoriness of his earlier work.
--balance-sheet of work in 1857.
--begins the systematic consultation of foreign writers.
--recognition abroad.
--birth of his son Noel.
--his aim in life.
--death of his son.
--position in 1858.
--ambition.
--translation and lecturing.
--money and marriage.
--paleontology and anatomy.
--loss of priority through delay of "Oceanic Hydrozoa".
--his personal contributions to science.
--effect on him of the "Origin".
--"anti-progressive confession of faith".
--one of the decisive critics of the "Origin".
--"general agent" to Darwin.
--nature of his support of Darwin.
--as Darwin's bulldog
--descent of man.
--takes up ethnology.
--his philosophy of life.
--love of philosophy.
--early life.
--moves to Abbey Place.
--his handwriting.
--on matrimony.
--children.
--"Happy Family".
--fondness for music.
--health.
--expedition to Switzerland.
--Hunterian Lectures.
--the British Museum and controversy.
--exhilarating effect of controversy.
--not inconsistent with friendship.
--reputation.
--ethnological work.
--vein of laziness.
--appealed to on point of honour.
--science course for International College.
--on Indian anthropological scheme.
--Edinburgh degree.
--the writing of elementary books.
--"Elementary Physiology".
--incident at a working-men's lecture.
--trip to Brittany.
--anecdote of the cerebellum.
--on "eating the leek".
--rapidity of thought.
--influence of his style.
--the moralities of criticism.
--a good book and fools.
--turning-point in his career, 1870.
--popular view of, about 1870.
--effect of "Lay Sermons".
--growing pressure of official work.
--dubbed "Pope" by the "Spectator".
--on evolution of the horse.
--influence of Descartes, and scientific Calvinism.
--visits the Eifel.
--his degree of D.C.L. opposed.
--President British Association.
--work on micro-organisms and spontaneous generation.
--continued work on micro-organisms.
--on savagery.
--visits the slums.
--presentation to.
--commerce the civiliser.
--attacks on his Address.
--stands for the School Board.
--his programme.
--opposes proposal to open meetings with prayer.
--on Education Committee.
--religious and secular teaching.
--letters on the compromise and an "incriminated lesson".
--report of Education Committee.
--speech on Ultramontanism.
--his lasting influence.
--impression on fellow-workers.
--examinations.
--extra subjects.
--monetary assistance offered, to remain on School Board.
--sacrifices involved in.
--urged to stand for Parliament.
--Secretary of the Royal Society.
--and Appendix 2.
--on "Challenger" Committee.
--science teaching for teachers.
--continues his educational campaign.
--ideal of a State Church.
--titles for men of science.
--edits Science Primers.
--microscopes.
--at St. Andrews.
--holiday work.
--plays golf.
--on strong language.
--breakdown of 1871.
--help of friends.
--examines stores at Gibraltar.
--at Tangier.
--in Egypt.
--further treatment.
--new teaching in biology.
--view of.
--changes the course.
--writes "Elementary Instruction in Biology".
--new house in Marlborough Place.
--lawsuit.
--loan from Tyndall.
--mixed classes in Anatomy.
--Lord Rector of Aberdeen.
--trip to the Auvergne.
--as travelling companion.
--geological work.
--letters on.
--learns to smoke.
--Order of the Pole Star.
--a paternal gander.
--his reputation and the part he has to play in the world.
--scientific work after 1870.
--precious half-hours.
--duty of fulfilling a promise.
--attends Presbyterian service.
--at Belfast British Association.
--on "grasping the nettle".
--feeling about vivisection.
--grouse-murder.
--Natural History courses at Edinburgh.
--suspects himself of cowardice.
--expectation of his visit in America.
--a second honeymoon.
--position in the world of thought.
--tugs in New York harbour.
--prefers the contents of a university to the buildings.
--old opinions and new truth.
--at Niagara.
--meets his sister again.
--an address under difficulties.
--lectures on Evolution.
--prophecies fulfilled.
--the two things he really cares about.
--posthumous fame.
--ingrained laziness the bane of his existence.
--speech on Darwin's LL.D. at Cambridge.
--help to a distressed man of science.
--"bottled life".
--politics in 1878.
--projected Introductions to Zoology, Mammalia, Anthropology, and
Psychology.
--engrossed in the Invertebrates.
--affected by his daughter's illness.
--rationality and the parental capacity.
--traces diphtheria.
--learns Greek.
--Governor of Eton College.
--makes drawing part of the curriculum.
--attends no society except the Royal and Zoological.
--fifty-three a youthful age.
--resigns presidency of Association of Liberal Thinkers.
--LL.D. at Cambridge.
--becomes a "person of respectability".
--"eats the leek" over Bathybius.
--advantages of breaking a leg.
--faith in Natural Selection.
--"pretty Fanny's way".
--optimism and pessimism.
--friendship and criticism.
--further involved in official duties.
--Inspector of Fisheries.
--salary.
--duties of inspectorship described.
--conduct of meetings.
--as a companion.
--as a writer.
--as a speaker.
--life uninfluenced by idea of future recompense.
--a child's criticism on.
--refuses to go to Oxford as Linacre Professor.
--or Master of University College.
--debt to Carlyle.
--health in 1881.
--his title of Dean.
--his nunc dimittis postponed by death of F. Balfour.
--his notion of a holiday.
--queer correspondents.
--table talk of, in 1882.
--presented with the freedom of the Salters.
--President Royal Society.
--qualifications for.
--reluctance to accept.
--or create division in the Society.
--or to commit it to debateable opinions.
--art of governing the headstrong.
--a record in cab-driving.
--effect of anxiety on handwriting.
--holiday defined.
--composition of a presidential address.
--confesses himself to Tyndall.
--the thought of extinction.
--"faded but fascinating".
--increasing ill-health.
--gives up anatomy.
--looks forward to an "Indian summer".
--re-reads the "Decline and Fall".
--rumoured acceptance of a title.
--getting into harness as a tonic.
--ordered abroad.
--takes up Italian again.
--papal and pagan Rome.
--a decayed naturalist, will turn antiquarian.
--Radicals and arbitrary acts.
--not roused even by prospect of a fight.
--moral courage and picture galleries.
--retires from public life.
--illness makes him shirk responsibility.
--at Filey.
--medicinal effect of a book on miracles.
--science and creeds.
--intention to revise work on the Mollusca.
--writes "From the Hut to the Pantheon".
--at Ilkley.
--his career indirectly determined by Dr. Ransom's overworking.
--visit to Arolla.
--effect of.
--second visit to Arolla.
--begins study of gentians.
--theological work, a sort of crib-biting.
--death of a visitor at Arolla, memento of him.
--his boyhood and education compared with Spencer's.
--administrative insight.
--his only sixpence earned by manual labour.
--attack of pleurisy.
--Science and Art Department examinership.
--reply to the Duke of Argyll on pseudo-science.
--on coral reef theories.
--thinks of retiring to Shanklin.
--at Savernake.
--"An Episcopal Trilogy".
--acknowledgment of error.
--letter on Murray's theory of coral reefs.
--his own share in the work of science.
--speculation and fact.
--honorary committee of French teachers.
--supports free library for Marylebone.
--on titles of honour.
--the Irish question.
--the philosophy of age, "lucky it's no worse".
--death of his second daughter.
--paper philosophers.
--Trustee of British Museum.
--consolation for age in past service.
--the stimulus of vanity.
--depression.
--recovery at the Maloja.
--renewed work on gentians.
--receives Copley Medal.
--a centre of society at Maloja.
--receives a futile "warning".
--refuges for the incompetent.
--battles not to be multiplied beyond necessity.
--a "household animal of value".
--appearance of, in 1889.
--works at the limit of his powers.
--marriage of his youngest daughter.
--hatred of anonymity.
--settles at Eastbourne.
--controversy on Agnosticism.
--aim in controversy.
--and in philosophy.
--on suffering fools gladly.
--his autobiographical sketch.
--superiority of the male figure.
--alcohol.
--clericalism.
--second visit to Maloja.
--returns to Eastbourne.
--led to write on social questions.
--manner of work.
--practical results of wrong thinking.
--marriage and the wisdom of Solomon.
--trip to Canaries.
--Ulysses and Penelope.
--receives Linnean Medal.
--the Flood myth.
--dislike to moving.
--reply to Dr. Abbott.
--quietude of mind impossible.
--on ethnological questions possesses the impartiality of a mongrel.
--pertinacity.
--sends books to Royal College of Science.
--rational and irrational certainty.
--his aim, truth in all things.
--new house completed through Mr. Rich's legacy.
--visits Huxley Hall.
--almost indecent to be so well again.
--his garden.
--warns younger generation that the battle is only half won.
--essays translated into French.
--love for his native tongue.
--party politics and Unionism.
--a scholar, not a leader of a sect.
--backwoodsman's work.
--a full life suggests more than negative criticism.
--creation and providence.
--ethics of evolution.
--underlying truths of many theological teachings.
--moral aspiration and the hope of immortality.
--the world and comfortable doctrines.
--President of London University Reform Association.
--administration.
--appears before London University Commission.
--heads deputation to Prime Minister.
--opposes creation of an Established Church scientific.
--letter on scientific aspirations.
--on free thought ribaldry.
--made a Privy Councillor.
--the title of Right Hon.
--official recognition on leaving office.
--visit to Osborne.
--a friend's second marriage.
--friendship and funerals.
--the modern martyrdom.
--source of his ill-health.
--faculty of forgetting.
--on sacramental food.
--poem on Tennyson's funeral.
--a religion for men.
--funerals.
--his part in the memorial to Owen.
--on bearing attacks.
--proposed working-men's lectures on the Bible.
--testimony and the marvellous.
--Manx mannikins.
--home pets.
--payment for work out of the ordinary.
--on dying by inches.
--the approach of death.
--description of his personality in Lankester's review of the
"Collected Essays".
--letter from a lunatic.
--a contretemps at a public dinner.
--at Oxford, 1894.
--criticism of Lord Salisbury.
--repeated in "Nature".
--deafness.
--growing hopefulness in age.
--receives Darwin medal.
--speech.
--his "last appearance on any stage".
--characterises his work for science.
--late liking for public speaking.
--slovenly writing in science.
--lifelong love of philosophy.
--the abysmal griefs of life.
--brilliancy of talk just before his last illness.
--a meeting with a priest.
--writes article on "Foundations of Belief".
--proofreading.
--his last illness.
--passion for veracity.
--absence of dogmatism in lectures.
--children and theology.
--"Royal lies".
--his great work, securing freedom of speech.
--carelessness of priority.
--recognition of predecessors.
--honesty.
--loyalty.
--friends and intimates.
--practical side of his work.
--how regarded by working-men.
--his face described, by Professor Osborn.
--by Sir W. Besant.
--his lectures described.
--preparation for his lectures.
--ordinary day's work.
--method.
--reading.
--memory for facts, not words.
--delight in literature and art.
--foreign languages.
--recreations.
--table talk of.
--the happiness of others.
--simian characteristics of infants.
--difficulties of disproof and direct evidence.
--"Cock Lane and Common Sense".
--transient influence of false assertions.
--movement of modern philosophy.
--Plato.
--geographical teaching.
--Greeks and Jews.
--his part in controversy.
--responsibility.
--dramatic and literary faculties.
--French and English artists.
--human nature described.
--his manner of conversation.
--anecdotes from.
--home life: relations with his children.
--and grandchildren.
--nonsense letters.
--a day's work in later life.
--love of his garden.
--the "lodger".
--sustaining power of a wife's comradeship.
--field botany.