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Title: The Ridpath library of universal literature : a biographical and bibliographical summary of the world's most eminent authors, including the choicest extracts and masterpieces from their writings ...
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: Literature
Publisher: New York : The Fifth avenue library society
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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at the MedicalSchool of the Charing Cross Hospital. In 1845he passed his first examination at the Universityof London for the degree of M.B., taking honorsin physiology; and in the following year wasappointed Assistant-Surgeon to the Victory forservice at Haslar Hospital. In 1847 ne was aP*pointed Assistant-Surgeon to H.M.S. Rattlesnake,and spent the greater part of the ensuing threeyears off the eastern coast of Australia. In 1851 hewas elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, receiv-ing one of the Royal medals next year. In 1855he was appointed Professor of Natural History inthe Royal School of Mines; Fullerian Professorof Physiology to the Royal Institution, and Ex-aminer in Physiology and Comparative Anatomyto the University of London. In 1858 he was ap-pointed Groonian Lecturer to the Royal Society,and chose for his subject the Theory of the Ver-tebrate Skull. In i860 he delivered a course oflectures to working-men nt the School of Mines,his subject being Tl Relation of Man to the
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THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY -47 Lower Animals. The views which he tnen pro-pounded gave rise to much vehement controversy.In 1862 he delivered another course of lectures toworking-men, which were subsequently publishedunder the title of Lectures on our Knowledge of theCauses of the Phenomena of Organic Nature. In1870 he was elected a member of the LondonSchool Board, where he took an active part inthe opposition to denominational teaching. In1872 he was elected Lord Rector of AberdeenUniversity; and in 1873 Secretary of the RoyalSociety, of which he was chosen President in1883. In 1881 he was appointed Inspector of Salm-on Fisheries; but in 1885 he was compelled byill-health to resign. In 1890 he wrote to the Timesseverely criticising General Booths DarkestEngland scheme. In 1892 he was called to thePrivy Council. The following are Mr. Huxleys principal works:Lessons in Elementary Physiology (1866); Introduc-tion to the Classification of Animals (1869) ; Lay Ser-mons, Addresses, and Revieivs

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