Skelton, Sir John. —visits. —Letters to: —"Noctes Ambrosianae". —advantage of quasi-Scotch nationality: the Hermitage too pleasant for work. —biography and fiction: conscience and letter writing. —dinner and discussion. —"The Crookit Meg", a reference to Huxley. —introduction to Tyndall. —Mary Stuart and the Casket Letters. —Gladstone as controversialist. —nature and suffering. —historians and practical discipline: an antagonist "rouses his corruption". —the Casket Letters. —retirement from London. —limitations of the Romanes Lecture, mending the irremediable.
Skull. —theory of the Vertebrate. —further investigations.
Slavery.
Smalley, G.W. —Huxley in New York harbour. —description of him as a lecturer. —his friends and talk.
Smith, Robertson, at x Club.
Smith, Sir William. —and International College. —effect of the name "vivisection".
Smith, Right Hon. W.H., Bible-reading in Schools.
Smyth, W. Warington, death of.
Snakes, lecture on.
Socialism, State, and natural selection.