historical succession since Huxley's earliest papers, and was absent in
the papers of his early contemporaries." (P. Chalmers Mitchell in
"Natural Science" August 1895.)

About this time his activity in several branches of science began to
find recognition from scientific societies at home and abroad. In 1857
he was elected honorary member of the Microscopical Society of Giessen;
and in the same year, of a more important body, the Academy of Breslau
(Imperialis Academia Caesariana Naturae Curiosum). He writes to
Hooker:--]

14 Waverley Place, April 3, 1857.

Having subsided from standing upon my head--which was the immediate
causation of your correspondence about the co-extension Imperialis
Academia Caesariana Naturae Curiosum (don't I know their thundering long
title well!)--I have to say that I was born on the 4th of May of the
year 1825, whereby I have now more or less mis-spent thirty-one years
and a bittock, nigh on thirty-two.

Furthermore, my locus natalis is Ealing, in the county of Middlesex.
Upon my word, it is very obliging of the "curious naturals," and I must
say wholly surprising and unexpected.

I shall hold up my head immensely to-morrow when (blessed be the Lord) I
give my last Fullerian.

Among other things, I am going to take Cuvier's crack case of the
'Possum of Montmartre as an illustration of MY views.