SOURCE: "Memorial Tribute to Professor Thomas H. Huxley," in Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences, Vol. XV, November 11, 1895, pp. 40-50.

In the following essay, Osborn surveys Huxley's career and pays tribute to his lasting influence.

All the members of this Academy, all men of science in America, in fact, are in different ways indebted to the late Professor Huxley. We would be ungrateful, indeed, especially in this section of the Academy, if we failed to join in the tributes which are being paid to him in different parts of the world.

In his memory I do not offer a formal address this evening, but as one of his students, would present some personal reminiscences of his characteristics as a teacher, and some of the most striking features of his life and work.

Huxley was born in 1825. Like Goethe, he inherited from his mother his brilliantly alert...