DEATH OF PROFESSOR HUXLEY.
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London, June 29. The death is announced of Professor Huxley. _____
Thomas Honry Huxley, M.D., LL.D., D.C.L., F.R.S., waa born on May 4, 1825, ab Ealing. Ha was educated at Ealing School (of which his father was one of the masters) and ab Charing Cross Hospital. He served as assistant-surgeon oil H.M.S. Victory and Rsittlesnake, during the cruise of which latter vessel he made important observations on ocean hydrozoa. fie was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1852 ; in 1855 was appointed Professor of Natural History at tho P.oy«i Sol.ool -«£. Mines, and also Fullerian Professor of Physiology at the Royal Institution ; in 1862 was President of the Biological section of the British Association ; in 1872 president of the , Association itself for the year and member of the London School Board ; in 1872 Lord Rector of Aberdeen University; it 1873 Secretary of the Royal Society; in 1878 was made LL.D. Dublin and Edinburgh ; in 1879 LL.D. Cambridge; in 1883 Rede Lecturer at Cambridge, and President of the Royal Society. In 1885 he resigned his official duties, which included the Inspectorship of Fisheries and the Presidency of the Royal Society, and settled down to a life of auieb and comparative retirement at) Eastbourne. In 1892 he published " Essays on some Controverted Questions," a collection of fugitive papers on religious and scientific topics. He was called to the Privy Council in August. He was a strong advocate of Darwin's views and of evolutionist doctrines in general.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9860, 1 July 1895, Page 5
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