Huxley Memorial Lectures to the University of Birmingham

ey-a scope sufficiently wide for anything. It seemed appropriate that the first one or two lectures should deal with some aspect of Huxley himself, and his friend Sir Michael Foster was asked to give the first lecture on the more personal side. No claim was made on the lecturers as to publication, nor was the discourse even written in every case. Those that were written often appeared subsequently in some serial publication and thus became more widely accessible. GItbe aesn thourrht desirable to collect,. such of. these-. lectures as were available and lish tEem 33ggther and thanks are due to the owners of the copyright for the permission freely given for this local re-publication. The connection of Huxley with Birmingham ay not be generally known. But in the year 1874 he came down to give an address on the occasion of the presentation of a statue of Joseph Priestley to the town of Birmingham-the town in which that scientific pioneer and political philosopher had been ill-used, his property destroyed, and himself expelled, at the time of the Birmingham Church and King Riots in 1791. The address which Huxley delivered on that occasion is the first of the collected Essays re-published by Messrs. Macmillan in the Eversley Series. The volume containing this particular address is called Science and Education, it appeared in 1893 and has been many times reprinted. Huxley came to Birmingham also to lay the foundation stone of Mason College, which was the predecessor and parent of the University and when that College was opened-which it was in 1880, under the early title cc Sir Josiah Masons Science College -Huxley came again and delivered the Inaugural Address an Address which is published in the volume already men- tioned, under the title Science and Culture. The complete list of the Huxley Lectures so far given is as follows -Date. Lecturer. Title. 16th Maroh, 1904 23rd March, 1906 25th Nov., 1908 1st Deo, 1909 23rd Nov., 1910 29th May, 1911 30th Oot., 1912 8th Deo., 1913 Prof. air J. J. Thomeon Sir Miohael Foster .. Prof. E. B. Pmlton .. Prof. Sir Ronnld Rosa Prof. Willilun Bateeon Prof. Peroy Gardner . . The Work and Inflnence of Thomaa Henry Haxley. Pnbliahed in The National Re. vier, Vol. 43, 1904. Thomas Henry Hnxle and the Theory ef Natural ezotion. Pnbiiahed not in . full1 in Tke Sczmfz c Amencan supple ment, l. 69, April, 1905. Prof Henri Bergson . . Prof. John Joly .. Sir Arthnr Evana . . The Mnenoe of Reoent Din ooveriea in Electrioityon ourOqpoeptione of Matter and Ether. Malarie. Mendelian Heredity. Rationaliem md Scienoe in relation to Social Movements. Life and Conacionanese. Publishedin The Hi6bed outnal Ootober, 1911...