LL.D. with Huxley. —­joins in drawing up scheme of science teaching in schools. —­in Metaphysical Society. —­presentation to, at Liverpool. —­discussion with B. Sanderson. —­a constant New Year’s guest. —­action of Association of Liberal Thinkers. —­vigour of. —­visit to. —­death of.  —­Letters from:  —­unable to join in trip to the Eifel. —­on clerical attacks. —­on proposed visit to India. —­on opposition to his Presidency of the British Association. —­wasted sympathy.  —­Letters to:  —­Toronto. —­elected F.R.S. —­on a London career. —­science reviews in “Westminster”. —­letter from colleagues in England. —­at his marriage. —­the Brenoa:  end of Swiss trip. —­on joining School of Mines. —­on Jamaica affair. —­on working-men’s lecture at British Association:  reconciliation with Thomson and Tait. —­resignation of Fullerian lectureship. —­resigning lectureship at School of Mines.  —­Liverpool British Association. —­an electrical disturbance. —­his lecture at Liverpool meeting of British Association. —­a letter to “Nature”:  his breakdown. —­trip to Egypt:  ascent of Vesuvius. —­the new teaching of biology:  Hooker’s affair. —­ill-health, and the fine air of St. John’s Wood:  Tyndall’s visit to America. —­a loan. —­possibility of marriage. —­the New Year in the new house:  Tyndall’s “English accent”:  character of Hirst:  Lord Rector of Aberdeen. —­tour in Auvergne. —­controversy about Forbes:  —­walks with his young son:  receives Order of the Pole Star. —­opposition to his Presidency of the British Association:  a letter at high temperature:  Blauvelt’s “Modern Skepticism”. —­the Forbes controversy:  British Association at Belfast. —­excuses for undertaking unnecessary work:  subject of Belfast address, Spinoza memorial:  pay at Edinburgh:  possible sons-in-law. —­examines micro-organisms. —­offers to lecture for:  “bottled life”. —­on his daughter’s recovery. —­to take Boyle in English Men of Science Series. —­own capacity as an editor:  Clifford’s illness. —­begs him to avoid “avalanches of work”. —­friendship and criticism, apropos of science review in “Nineteenth Century”. —­a confession —­dinner in honour of.  —­Lord Granville’s sarcastic sweetness. —­confused with him in the popular mind.  —­Tennyson’s funeral. —­effect of influenza:  addresses at Oxford:  dying by inches.

“Universities, Actual and Ideal”.

University, Johns Hopkins. —­address at:  “Trustees have sometimes made a palace and called it a university”. —­ideal of. —­government by professors only.

Use-inheritance. —­disbelief in. —­in plants.

Variation, the key to the Darwinian theory.

Varigny, H. de. —­letters to:  —­his essays translated into French:  love of his native tongue. —­later volume not interesting to French public:  experimental proof of specific infertility.

Vermes, a zoological lumber-room.

“Vestiges of Creation”.

Vesuvius, ascent of.

Virchow, Professor. —­(in Huxley lecture), influence of the “Rattlesnake” voyage. —­on Huxley’s ethnological work. —­at Medical Congress.