. Some apostles of physiology : being an account of their lives and labours, labours that have contributed to the advancement of the healing art as well as to the prevention of disease. THOMAS HKNKX HUXLEY. He will be remembered not only as a great original thinker, investigator, andpromoter of biological science, but as a man of the highest principle and unswervingdevotion to truth, a genial and charming friend, a keen but courteous controversialist,and one who illuminated all he said or did with the brightness of a remarkable personalityand a goodness of heart that endeared him to all who kn
. Some apostles of physiology : being an account of their lives and labours, labours that have contributed to the advancement of the healing art as well as to the prevention of disease. THOMAS HKNKX HUXLEY. He will be remembered not only as a great original thinker, investigator, andpromoter of biological science, but as a man of the highest principle and unswervingdevotion to truth, a genial and charming friend, a keen but courteous controversialist,and one who illuminated all he said or did with the brightness of a remarkable personalityand a goodness of heart that endeared him to all who knew him. (Sir Joseph Fayrer.). > UJ X DX > z UJ X < oXh ( 127 ) Why I was christened Thomas Henry I do not know ; but it is a curious chancethat my parents should have fixed for my usual denomination upon the name of thatparticular Apostle with whom I have always felt most sympathy (Autobiography ofT. H. H.) I desired to obtain a Professorship of either Physiology or ComparativeAnatomy. . At last, in 1845, on the translation of my warm friend EdwardForbes to Edinburgh, Sir Henry de la Beche, the Director-General of the GeologicalSurvey, offered me the post Forbes vacated of Pateontologist and Lecturer on NaturalHistory. I refused the former point blank, and accepted the latter only provisionally,telling Sir Henry that I did not care for fossils, and that I should give up naturalhistory as soon as I could get a physiological post. But I held the office for thirty-oneyears, and a large part of my work has been paheontological. The portrait in the text is taken from a replica of the bronzemedallion design
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