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Salmon Disease.
--Memoir on.
Salmon, their "playground".
Salpa.
--aim of his work on.
--anticipated in.
Salters' Company, present Huxley with their freedom.
Salvation Army.
--controversy, origin.
--progress of.
Samuelson, Mr., letter to: on clerical attacks.
Sanderson, Sir Burdon.
--Vivisection Bill.
--discussion with Tyndall.
--dines with.
Sandon, Lord, leaves School Board.
Sandys, J.E.
--his speech presenting Huxley for LL.D. at Cambridge.
--letter to:
--"tenax propositi".
Satan, the prince of this world.
"Saturday Review" science in.
Sauropsida.
Savages, interview with.
Savigny.
--his observations on Salpa supplemented.
--his morphological method adopted.
Schlagintweit, the brothers.
Schmitz, Dr. L., head of International College.
Schomburgk, Sir Richard.
School Board.
--work on.
--his campaign continued in "Administrative Nihilism".
--compromise, letters on.
--Diggleite attack on the compromise.
Schurman, Professor, on design in evolution.
Science and Agriculture.
Science and Art Department.
--lectures for.
--value of examinations.
--examinations.
"Science and Art in Relation to Education".
Science.
--and creeds.
--and its prophets.
"Science and Culture".
"Science and Religion, Truthfulness in".
"Science at Sea".
Science.
--in public schools.
--in elementary schools.
--the great tragedy of.
--definition of.
--at Oxford.
Science, Biological, and Medicine.
Science Primers begun.
Science teachers, need of.
Science teaching: scheme for the International College.
"Scientific Education".
Scientific missionaries.
Scott, D.H., extends text-book on Biology.
Scott, John Godwin.
Scott, Mrs. J.G. (Eliza Huxley).
--visit to.
--Letters to:
--prospects of "Rattlesnake" voyage.
--first scientific memoir.
--engagement.
--last cruise and Kennedy's expedition.
--return and ambitions.
--character of Forbes.
--death of his mother: first lecture: irony of his position.
--Royal Medal: people he can deal with.
--Science and Mammon.
--rounds the Cape Horn of his life.
--position in 1858.
--his home in 1859.
--his reputation: slavery.
Sea serpent, letters on.
Selborne, Lord, in Metaphysical Society.
Sensation, lecture on.
Seth, Professor.
--letters to:
--thanks for understanding him: conditions of Romanes Lecture: Faraday
on popular audiences.
--Prolegomena: Spinoza.
Sexton, T., and Parnell.
Shaftesbury, Lord.
--quotes Huxley's definition of religion and morality.
--charges him with advocating vivisections before children.
--letter from.
Sharpey, Dr. William.
--help from.
--Secretary Royal Society till 1871.
--Vivisection Bill.
"Shehretz".
Sidgwick, Wm. C., rebuke to the "Speaker".
Sin, origin of.
Sinclair, Sir J.G.T., letter to: on Babbage's calculating machine.
Sion College.
--meeting.
--declines to attend opening of new buildings at.
Skelton, Sir John.
--visits.
--Letters to:
--"Noctes Ambrosianae".
--advantage of quasi-Scotch nationality: the Hermitage too pleasant for
work.
--biography and fiction: conscience and letter writing.
--dinner and discussion.
--"The Crookit Meg", a reference to Huxley.
--introduction to Tyndall.
--Mary Stuart and the Casket Letters.
--Gladstone as controversialist.
--nature and suffering.
--historians and practical discipline: an antagonist "rouses his
corruption".
--the Casket Letters.
--retirement from London.
--limitations of the Romanes Lecture, mending the irremediable.
Skull.
--theory of the Vertebrate.
--further investigations.
Slavery.
Smalley, G.W.
--Huxley in New York harbour.
--description of him as a lecturer.
--his friends and talk.
Smith, Robertson, at x Club.
Smith, Sir William.
--and International College.
--effect of the name "vivisection".
Smith, Right Hon. W.H., Bible-reading in Schools.
Smyth, W. Warington, death of.
Snakes, lecture on.
Socialism, State, and natural selection.
Societies and ladies.
Society and societies.
Society for the propagation of common honesty.
Society of Arts, speech at.
"Speaker", the insinuations of, rebuked.
Species and sterility.
"Spectator", on "Pope Huxley".
Spedding, James.
--influence of Huxley's accuracy in style.
--Letter from:
--on Bacon.
Bacon's influence compared with Huxley's.
Spencer, Herbert.
--and evolution.
--joins x Club.
--fondness for music.
--philosophy.
--on Comte.
--"devil's advocate".
--his comparison of the body politic to the body physical criticised.
--criticises "Administrative Nihilism".
--controversy not inconsistent with friendship.
--a regular New Year's guest.
--his philosophy found wanting by a youthful Punjaubee.
--vigour of.
--philosophical opposition to.
--correspondence on absolute ethics.
--psychology based on use-inheritance.
--frankness to.
--plays racquets with.
--authority on music.
--Letters from:
--will not break through custom of sending him proofs.
--urges him to answer Lilly.
--sends proofs to him as an "omnivorous reader".
--Letters to:
--his review of the "Archetype".
--"First Principles".
--distention of birds' air-cells during flight.
--animals and plants: Tyndall's favourite problem: "gynopathy".
--patience in discussions.
--dry facts only at Edinburgh lectures: Moses and a visit to town.
--on George Eliot and Westminster Abbey.
--thanks for his photograph.
--acceptance of P.R.S.
--on Creation controversy.
--influence of conditions.
--reads proofs of his Autobiography.
--use-inheritance.
--disinclined to reply to Mr. Lilly.
--the plot succeeds.
--his own boyhood.
--reply to Mr. Lilly: abuse of the word "Law": Victorian science.
--Imperial Institute.
--death of his daughter.
--retrospect of their first meeting: clears up possible
misunderstanding about London Liberty League.
--a visit to, postponed: defensive position in controversy.
--forgetfulness of past events: a sweeping criticism.
--jests on his recent activity: himself unlike Samson.
--some consolation for old age.
--return from Maloja.
Sphinx Club, Liverpool, dinner to Huxley.
Spinoza.
--memorial to.
--debt to.
Spiritualism.
--experiments in.
--if true, an additional argument against suicide.
--report on seance.
Spirula, work on.
Spitzbergen, fossils from.
Spontaneous generation.
--and Darwinism.
--recipe for.
Spottiswoode, William.
--and x Club.
--visit to.
--character of.
--death.
Stanley, Dean.
--handwriting.
--death of.
--on George Eliot's funeral.
--men of science.
--on being made a bishop.
--historical impressionability.
--repartee, the priests and the prophets.
Stanley, Lord.
Stanley, Lord, of Alderley, memorial to Carlyle.
Stanley, Owen, captain of "Rattlesnake".
Stanley, Mrs. Owen.
State, comparison with the body.
State, the, and the medical profession.
Steffens, Father, friendship with.
Stephen, Sir Leslie.
--in Metaphysical Society.
--on Huxley and his home life.
--Letter to:
--separation from friends:
--deafness: morality in the cosmos.
Stephenson, G.
Stewart, Professor Balfour, editor of Science Primers.
Stocks, John Ellerton.
Stokes, Sir G.G.
--presentation to, at Liverpool.
--Letter from:
--Parliament and the Presidency of the Royal Society.
--Letters to.
Strachey, E.
Strachey, Sir R., appreciation of.
Strauss, on the Resurrection.
Struthers, Professor, visits.
Style.
--influence of his.
--cannot judge of his own compositions in manuscript.
--the first pages of an essay the chief trouble.
Suarez, his teaching examined.
Suicide, moral.
Sulivan, Captain, at Falkland Islands.
Sunday evening gatherings.
--impression on friends.
Sunday Society, unable to support prominently while P.R.S.
Supernaturalism.
Sydenham College.
Sydney, projected chair of Natural History at.
Sylvester, Professor.
Tait, Professor.
--reconciliation with Tyndall.
--makes Huxley play golf.
Taylor, Miss H., criticism of "Administrative Nihilism".
Taylor, Canon Isaac, language and race.
Taylor, Robert.
--Christianity compared to Babism.
--Letter to:
--success of Christianity and the story of Christ.
Teachers, lectures to.
Technical Education.
--address on.
--continuation of his work on the School Board.
--Report to the Guilds.
--engineers the City and Guilds Institute.
--supply of teachers, speech at the Society of Arts.
--buildings.
--letter on his aims.
--relation of industry to science.
--Imperial Institute.
--letters to "Times".
--campaign interrupted by pleurisy.
--at Manchester in the autumn.
Technical education in agriculture.
Teeth, writes on.
Tegumentary organs, article on.
Teleology, see also s.v. Design
"Tenax propositi".
Tenby.
--survey work at.
--fossil forest at.
Tennessee, on the geology of.
Tennyson.
--"Ode on Wellington".
--in Metaphysical Society.
--death of.
--visits to.
--scientific insight of.
--his talk.
--insensibility to music.
--on Browning's music.
--funeral.
--poem on.
--Letter to:
--thanks for "Demeter": envies his vigour.
Tenterden, Lady, at Lynton.
Tethea, on the anatomy of.
Theism, philosophical difficulties of.
Theological doctrines, truth underlying.
Theology, sentimental.
Thompson, Sir Henry, on Clifford's illness.
Thomson, Archbishop.
--on modern thought and Positivism.
--and Metaphysical Society.
Thomson, John, surgeon on the "Rattlesnake".
Thomson, Joseph, description of Huxley's lectures at Edinburgh.
Thomson, Sir W. (Lord Kelvin), reconciliation with Tyndall.
Thomson, Sir Wyville.
--and Bathybius.
--his course at Edinburgh taken by Huxley.
--criticism of Darwin.
Thorpe, Professor, and new University scheme.
Thought, as a "function" of the brain.
"Times".
--review of the "Origin" in.
Title, rumoured acceptance of.
Titles, for men of science.
Todd, Dr. R.B., gives up professorship at Kings College.
"Todd's Cyclopaedia", writes for.
Tollemache, A., at x Club.
Tomes, Sir John.
Toronto, stands for professorship at.
Training colleges, sectarian.
Trevelyan, Sir C., Under-Secretary Treasury.
Treviranus, not studied by Huxley before 1859.
Trigonia, on the animal of.
Truth.
--transatlantic discovery of.
--Huxley a fanatic for.
Tug, story of.
Tulloch, Principal.
Turner, W., an appointment to Calcutta Museum.
Tyndall, Mrs.
--letters to:
--duties of a married daughter.
--forgetfulness.
--an invitation to lunch.
Tyndall, John.
--rejected, like Huxley, at Toronto.
--Physics for "Saturday Review".
--joint paper on Glacier Ice.
--joins School of Mines.
--friendship.
--a "madcap" Alpinist.
--on Committee of the "Reader".
--in Wales with.
--takes Waverley Place house.
--favourite problem in molecular physics.
--and x Club.
--receives Edinburgh LL.D. with Huxley.
--joins in drawing up scheme of science teaching in schools.
--in Metaphysical Society.
--presentation to, at Liverpool.
--discussion with B. Sanderson.
--a constant New Year's guest.
--action of Association of Liberal Thinkers.
--vigour of.
--visit to.
--death of.
--Letters from:
--unable to join in trip to the Eifel.
--on clerical attacks.
--on proposed visit to India.
--on opposition to his Presidency of the British Association.
--wasted sympathy.
--Letters to:
--Toronto.
--elected F.R.S.
--on a London career.
--science reviews in "Westminster".
--letter from colleagues in England.
--at his marriage.
--the Brenoa: end of Swiss trip.
--on joining School of Mines.
--on Jamaica affair.
--on working-men's lecture at British Association: reconciliation with
Thomson and Tait.
--resignation of Fullerian lectureship.
--resigning lectureship at School of Mines.
--Liverpool British Association.
--an electrical disturbance.
--his lecture at Liverpool meeting of British Association.
--a letter to "Nature": his breakdown.
--trip to Egypt: ascent of Vesuvius.
--the new teaching of biology: Hooker's affair.
--ill-health, and the fine air of St. John's Wood: Tyndall's visit to
America.
--a loan.
--possibility of marriage.
--the New Year in the new house: Tyndall's "English accent": character
of Hirst: Lord Rector of Aberdeen.
--tour in Auvergne.
--controversy about Forbes:
--walks with his young son: receives Order of the Pole Star.
--opposition to his Presidency of the British Association: a letter at
high temperature: Blauvelt's "Modern Skepticism".
--the Forbes controversy: British Association at Belfast.
--excuses for undertaking unnecessary work: subject of Belfast address,
Spinoza memorial: pay at Edinburgh: possible sons-in-law.
--examines micro-organisms.
--offers to lecture for: "bottled life".
--on his daughter's recovery.
--to take Boyle in English Men of Science Series.
--own capacity as an editor: Clifford's illness.
--begs him to avoid "avalanches of work".
--friendship and criticism, apropos of science review in "Nineteenth
Century".
--a confession
--dinner in honour of.
--Lord Granville's sarcastic sweetness.
--confused with him in the popular mind.
--Tennyson's funeral.
--effect of influenza: addresses at Oxford: dying by inches.
"Universities, Actual and Ideal".
University, Johns Hopkins.
--address at: "Trustees have sometimes made a palace and called it a
university".
--ideal of.
--government by professors only.
Use-inheritance.
--disbelief in.
--in plants.
Variation, the key to the Darwinian theory.
Varigny, H. de.
--letters to:
--his essays translated into French: love of his native tongue.
--later volume not interesting to French public: experimental proof of
specific infertility.
Vermes, a zoological lumber-room.
"Vestiges of Creation".
Vesuvius, ascent of.
Virchow, Professor.
--(in Huxley lecture), influence of the "Rattlesnake" voyage.
--on Huxley's ethnological work.
--at Medical Congress.
Vivisection.
--Lord Shaftesbury's charges.
--W.E. Forster and South Kensington lectures.
--personal feelings on.
--Bills.
--fox-hunting legislators.
--experiment and original research.
--Commission on.
--Harvey article.
Vogt, Karl.
Von Willemoes Suhm and Ceylon Museum.
Wace, Dr., attacks agnosticism.
Wales, H.R.H., Prince of.
--admitted to Royal Society.
--unveils Darwin statue.
Walker, Alfred, letter to: local museums.
Walking, his holiday recreation.
Wallace, A.R.
--starts Darwin.
--Civil List Pension.
--Letter from: friendship with Huxley.
Waller, Mrs. F.W.
--letters to:
--numbers at Edinburgh lectures: suggests a new friend.
--Afghan War of 1878: Indian Empire a curse.
--avoidance of congresses.
--acceptance of P.R.S.
--portrait at the Royal Academy: family news.
--loss of her child.
--a Christmas function.
Walpole, Sir Spencer.
--on Huxley as Fishery Inspector.
--kindness from, in Italy.
Walpole, Sir Spencer H., Vivisection Bill.
Ward, Dr.
--his former examiner.
--passed over in favour of Huxley for Royal Society.
Ward, T.H., visit to.
Ward, Mrs. T.H.
--letter to:
--thanks for "Robert Elsmere".
Ward, W.
--table-talk of Huxley, especially on the "Foundations of Belief".
--other reminiscences of his talk.
Ward, W.G.
--in Metaphysical Society.
--saying about Mill's opinions.
Warwick, lectures at.
"Water-Babies, The".
--letter to his grandson about.
Waugh, Rev. Benjamin.
--impression of Huxley on the School Board.
Welby, Lady.
--letters to:
--life compared to a whirlpool: human tendency to make idols: "devils
advocate" to H. Spencer.
--speculation and fact.
--truthfulness in science and religion.
Welcker, Dr. H.
--on his ethnological work.
Weldon, Professor.
--letters to:
--ideal of a modern university.
--organisation of new university.
Wellington, Duke of, funeral.
--on speaking.
Westlake, John, Q.C.
--a working-men's meeting.
"Westminster Review", writes for.
Whales.
Whewell, "History of Scientific Ideas".
Wilberforce, Bishop, on Darwinism.
Winmarleigh, Lord, on Vivisection Commission.
Withers, Rachel, mother of T.H. Huxley (See Huxley).
"Witness", the, on the Ape question.
Wollaston, T.V., and species.
Women.
--medical education of.
--in public life.
Women's education.
Woodward, S.P., and geological amateur.
Working-Men's College.
--(Lectures. See Lectures).
--address at, on "Method of Zadig".
Working-Men's Institute.
Wright, Dr., editor of "Natural History Review".
x Club.
--founded.
--history.
--compared to The Club.
--jealousy of.
--gaps in.
Yale, fossils in museum.
Youmans, Dr.
--at x Club.
--meeting with.
Young, Lord, dines with.
Yule, Commander, succeeds Owen Stanley.
"Zadig, Method of".
Zoological Gardens.
Zoological Society.
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