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THIS magnificent volume will be to the working naturalist the most welcome of the three now published. It contains 38 memoirs, papers and addresses, covering, in all, 608 pp., as against 50 with 508, and 37 with 591 for volumes i. and ii. respectively. It embodies the scientific work of Huxley at his best. As memorable may be cited the great memoir on the bird's palate, which marked an epoch in comparative osteology; and that on the ossicula auditus, in which recent research has discovered a hidden treasure, and of which one of the leading conclusions, viz. that of the primary nature of the union between the hyoid and the columella auris, has but lately been shown (long opposition notwithstanding) to he developmentally confirmed. Particularly noteworthy are the series of memoirs and papers upon the Dinosauria, and the series of addresses and philosophic memoirs on the ethnology, archælogy and distribution of mankind in various parts of the globe, which will ever rank among their author's best achievements.
The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley.
Vol. iii. Edited by Sir Michael Foster E. Ray Lankester. Pp. xi + 622. With thirty plates, maps and text illustrations. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1901.) Price 30s. net.
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The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley . Nature 64, 76 (1901). https://doi.org/10.1038/064076a0
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