Nor was Mr. Huxley less actively interested in the domestic affairs of the Society.  In 1873 the whole establishment was translated from the building subsequently occupied by the Royal Academy to that which it now inhabits in the same quadrangle; a flitting of library stuff and appurtenances involving great responsibilities on the officers for the satisfactory re-establishment of the whole institution.  In 1874 a very important alteration of the bye-laws was effected, whereby that which gave to Peers the privilege of being proposed for election as Fellows, without previous selection by the Committee (and to which bye-laws, as may be supposed, Mr. Huxley was especially repugnant), was replaced by one restricting that privilege to Privy Councillors.  In 1875 he actively supported a proposition for extending the interests taken in the Society by holding annually a reception, to which the lady friends of the Fellows who were interested in science should be invited to inspect an exhibition of some of the more recent inventions, appliances, and discoveries in science.  And in the same year another reform took place in which he was no less interested, which was the abolition of the entrance fees for ordinary Fellows, which had proved a bar to the coming forward of men of small incomes, but great eminence.  The loss of income to the Society from this was met by a subscription of no less than 10,666 pounds, raised almost entirely amongst the Fellows themselves for the purpose.

In 1876 a responsibility, that fell heavily on the Secretaries, was the allotment annually of a grant by the Treasury of 4000 pounds, to be expended, under the direction of the Royal and other learned societies, on the advancement of science. (It is often called a grant to the Royal Society.  This is an error.  The Royal Society, as such, in no way participates in this grant.  The Society makes grants from funds in its own possession only.) Every detail of the business of this grant is undertaken by a large committee of the Royal and other scientific societies, which meets in the Society’s rooms, and where all the business connected with the grant is conducted and the records kept.

APPENDIX 3.

List of essays, books, and scientific memoirs, by T.H.  Huxley.

ESSAYS.

“The Darwinian Hypothesis.” ("Times” December 26, 1859.) “Collected Essays” 2.

“On the Educational Value of the Natural History Sciences.” (An Address delivered at St. Martin’s Hall, on July 22, 1854, and published as a pamphlet in that year.) “Lay Sermons”; “Collected Essays” 3.

“Time and Life.” ("Macmillan’s Magazine” December 1859.)

“The Origin of Species.” (The “Westminster Review” April 1860.) “Lay Sermons”; “Collected Essays” 2.

“A Lobster:  or the Study of Zoology.” (A Lecture delivered at the South Kensington Museum in 1861, and subsequently published by the Department of Science and Art.  Original title, “On the Study of Zoology.”) “Lay Sermons”; “Collected Essays” 8.