Repeated efforts were made by these three, and by more influential friends, to induce the Admiralty to contribute to the expense of publishing Huxley’s scientific results, as they had given a pledge to encourage officers who had done scientific work.  These efforts lasted unavailingly for nearly three years, and then, as Huxley says:  “The Admiralty, getting tired, I suppose, cut short the discussion by ordering me to join a ship, which thing I declined to do, and, as Rastignac, in the Pere Goriot, says to Paris, I said to London, a nous deux.”  This light phrase conceals a courageous and momentous decision.  He was absolutely without private resources, and having abandoned his professional work he had no salary of any kind.  For a year or so he supported himself by writing reviews and popular scientific articles, striving all the time not only to gain his bread but to continue his scientific work and make it known to the public.  He desired to get a professorship of physiology or of comparative anatomy, and as vacancies occurred he applied, but unsuccessfully.  At the same time, he tells us, he and his friend, John Tyndall, were

“candidates, he for the Chair of Physics, and I for that of Natural History in the University of Toronto, which, fortunately, as it turned out, would not look at either of us.  I say fortunately, not from any lack of respect for the University of Toronto; but because I soon made up my mind that London was the place for me, and hence I have steadily declined the inducements to leave it which have at various times been offered.”

In these early years in London Huxley’s work was most varied.  A large number of anonymous articles by him appeared in the Literary Gazette, and in other periodicals.  He assisted to remove the insular narrowness from English scientific work by translating many foreign memoirs.  With the collaboration of Mr. Henfrey, he edited a series of scientific memoirs, all of which were translated from foreign languages, and many by his own pen.  With the assistance of Mr. George Busk he made a translation of Koelliker’s Histology, a great treatise on microscopic anatomy which played a large part in the development of the modern English schools of anatomy and physiology.  He made some valuable contributions to Todd and Bowman’s Cyclopaedia of Anatomy, an elaborate publication now nearly forgotten and practically superseded, but which was the standard anatomical work of the middle of this century.  He was unable to progress rapidly with his work upon oceanic Medusae, as he was uncertain how to have it published; the Admiralty refused to assist, and it was too lengthy for publication in the volumes of the learned Societies.  As a matter of fact, he did not publish it until 1858, when it appeared as a separate memoir.  To the