I close the record of my father's life with a few words of retrospect added to the manuscript of his Autobiography in 1879:—
"As for myself, I believe that I have acted rightly in steadily following and devoting my life to Science. I feel no remorse from having committed any great sin, but have often and often regretted that I have not done more direct good to my fellow creatures."
FOOTNOTES:
[300] On the action of carbonate of ammonia on roots and leaves.
[301] The allusion is to Mr. Huxley's address, "On the hypothesis that animals are automata, and its history," given at the Belfast Meeting of the British Association, 1874, and republished in Science and Culture.
APPENDIX I. THE FUNERAL IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY.
On the Friday succeeding my father's death, the following letter, signed by twenty Members of Parliament, was addressed to Dr. Bradley, Dean of Westminster:—
House of Commons, April 21, 1882.