ket of separate copies awaited me.
When I hear some of my young friends complain of want of sympathy
and encouragement, I am inclined to think that my naval life was
not the least valuable part of my education."

This first successful paper was a memoir _On the Anatomy and the
Affinities of the Family of Medusae_, and was sent at Captain Stanley's
suggestion to that officer's father, the Bishop of Norwich, who
communicated it to the Royal Society. It is a curious circumstance
that Huxley, who afterwards met with so virulent opposition from
bishops, owed his first public success to one of them. Professor Sir
Michael Foster writes of this period in Huxley's life:

"The career of many a successful man has shewn that obstacles
often prove the mother of endeavour, and never was this lesson
clearer than in the case of Huxley. Working amidst a host of
difficulties, in want of room, in want of light, seeking to
unravel the intricacies of minute structure with a microscope
lashed to secure steadiness, cramped within a tiny cabin, jostled
by the tumult of a crowded ship's life, with the scantiest supply
of books of reference, with no one at hand of whom he could take
counsel on the problems opening up before him, he gathered for
himself during these four years a large mass of accurate,
important, and in most cases novel, observations and illustrated
them with skilful, pertinent drawings. Even his intellectual
solitude had its good effects: it drove him to ponder over the
new facts which came before him, and all his observations were
made alive with scientific thought."

Afterwards, in England, he received the Royal Medal of the Royal
Society for this memoir on Medusae, sharing this supreme distinction of
scientific England with men so illustrious as Joule, the discoverer of
the relation between force and heat, Stokes, the great investigator of
optical physics, and Humboldt, the traveller, all of whom received
medals in the same year. In making the presentation to Huxley, the
Earl of Rosse, then President of the Royal Society, declared:

"In those papers you have for the first time fully developed
their structure (that of the Medusae), and laid the foundation of
a rational theory for their classification. In your second paper,
on the anatomy of Salpa and Pyrosoma, the phenomena have received
the most ingenious and