toward him as a brother.  “I am sure that you will return this feeling and will therefore be glad to give us the opportunity of aiding you in some degree, as this will be a happiness to us to the last day of our lives.”  The gift made it possible for Huxley to take another long vacation, part of which was spent with Sir Joseph Hooker, a noted English botanist, visiting the volcanoes of Auvergne.  After this trip he steadily improved in health, with no other serious illness for ten years.

In 1876 Huxley was invited to visit America and to deliver the inaugural address at Johns Hopkins University.  In July of this year accordingly, in company with his wife, he crossed to New York.  Everywhere Huxley was received with enthusiasm, for his name was a very familiar one.  Two quotations from his address at Johns Hopkins are especially worthy of attention as a part of his message to Americans.  “It has been my fate to see great educational funds fossilise into mere bricks and mortar in the petrifying springs of architecture, with nothing left to work them.  A great warrior is said to have made a desert and called it peace.  Trustees have sometimes made a palace and called it a university.”

The second quotation is as follows:—­

I cannot say that I am in the slightest degree impressed by your bigness or your material resources, as such.  Size is not grandeur, territory does not make a nation.  The great issue, about which hangs true sublimity, and the terror of overhanging fate, is, what are you going to do with all these things? . . .

The one condition of success, your sole safeguard, is the moral worth and intellectual clearness of the individual citizen.  Education cannot give these, but it can cherish them and bring them to the front in whatever station of society they are to be found, and the universities ought to be, and may be, the fortresses of the higher life of the nation.

After the return from America, the same innumerable occupations were continued.  It would be impossible in short space even to enumerate all Huxley’s various publications of the next ten years.  His work, however, changed gradually from scientific investigation to administrative work, not the least important of which was the office of Inspector of Fisheries.  A second important office was the Presidency of the Royal Society.  Of the work of this society Sir Joseph Hooker writes:  “The duties of the office are manifold and heavy; they include attendance at all the meetings of the Fellows, and of the councils, committees, and sub-committees of the Society, and especially the supervision of the printing and illustrating all papers on biological subjects that are published in the Society’s Transactions and Proceedings; the latter often involving a protracted correspondence with the authors.  To this must be added a share in the supervision of the staff officers, of the library and correspondence, and the details of house-keeping.”  All the work connected with this and many other offices bespeaks a life too hard-driven and accounts fully for the continued ill-health which finally resulted in a complete break-down.