Huxley came to America in 1876, and deliv ered in New York three lectures on Evolution, taking as his texts the series of fossil horses. During that visit he delivered the opening ad dress at Johns Hopkins University. Huxley's contributions to science were of the widest range, and embraced every department of biology. Ilis exposition of the relations of protoplasm as the physical basis of life is particularly masterful. He was not only a man of science, hut a publicist. His services were always at command for the promotion of political, social, and moral reform—first and chiefly for the cause of national education. His devotion to labors thus entailed, added to professional toil, did much to undermine his health, which for some years toward the end of his life was very poor. He died at Eastbourne, June 29, 1895.
Professor Huxley bore an honorable part in creating the knowledge which will make the nine teenth century memorable; and a great part of it was made permanent in a series of books, of which the following is a complete list: Oceanic Hydrozoa (1859) ; Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature (1863); Elementary Physiology (1866; 4th ed. 1885) ; Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Re views (1870; 3d ed. 1887) ; Anatomy of Verte brated Animals (1871) ; Critiques and Addresses (1873) ; Elementary Biology (with Dr. H. N. Martin) (1875; 2c1 ed. 1876; 3d ed., edited by G. B. Howes and D. H. Scott, 1877) ; American Addresses) (1877) ; Anatomy of Invertebrated Animals (1877) ; Physiography (1877); Hume (1878) ; The Crayfish: An Introduction to the Study of Zoology (1880); Collected Essays (9 1893-94). These contained some reprinted material as follows: Method and Results; Dor winiana: Science and Education; Science and Hebrew Tradition; Science and Christian Tradi tion; flume, Man's Place in Nature: Discourses, Biological and Geological : Erolutian and Ethics, and other essays. Four volumes of Huxley's
Scientific Memoirs, edited by Sir Michael Foster and Prof. E. Ray Lankester, were published be tween 1898 and 1902. An authorized collection of his Minor writings appeared in eight duodecimo volumes (New York, 1897-1900).
His Elements of Biology became the model for a large number of laboratory manuals, and his Crayfish is a classic of the methods of the investi gator and the instructor combined. Whatever his theme, the weight and honesty of his thought and the distinction of his style make his works part and parcel of the hest books of his time.
Consult: Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley, by his son. Leonard Huxley (2 vols.. London. 1900). which contain a complete list of his writings and of the honors awarded him; Thomas Henry Huxley: A Sketch of His Life and Work, by P. C112 ImerA Mitchell (London, 1900) ; Thomas Henry Huxley, by Edward Clodd (London and New York, 1902).
HUY, n'S'. A strongly fortified town of Bel gium, in the Province of liege, situated amid lofty rocks on both banks of the Meuse. 18 miles by rail from Liege (Map: Belgium, D 4). Its citadel, dating front 1822, is partly excavated in the solid rock and commands the passage of the river. The Church of Notre Dame. a graceful Gothic edifice, was begun in 1311 and restored after having been partially destroyed by fire in the sixteenth century. The town contains dis tilleries and paper-mills. and in the vicinity are iron-works and coal-mines. Population, in 1890. 14.486; in 1900, 15.061. In one of the suburbs of Huy was formerly situated the Abbey of Neuf moustier, founded by Peter the Hermit, who was also interred within it. Huy was taken repeated ly by the Dutch and French in the many wars which swept over this region, and was last eap tured by Marlborough and Coehoorn in 1703.