The Huxley Laboratory for Biological Research, and the Marshall Scholarship

Abstract

SCIENTIFIC friends and former pupils of Prof. Huxley will alike be gratified to learn that an appropriate method has been devised for establishing a permanent memorial of his great services to the institution with which his name has been so long identified. The late Sir Warington Smyth, whose loss we had to deplore rather more than a year ago, was the last surviving member of the original staff of the School of Mines, as founded by Sir Henry de la Beche in 1851. Prof. Huxley, who, as long ago as 1854, succeeded Edward Forbes in the Chair of Natural History, continues to hold the post of Honorary Dean of the Royal College of Science, with which the School of Mines is now incorporated; and although, since 1885, compelled by ill-health to discontinue the work of lecturing, he is still, we are happy to say, able to take a kindly interest in, and to exercise a general supervision over, the biological studies carried on in the school.