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Huxley (THOMAS HENRY an English)

THOMAS HENRY, an English biologist and essayist; born in Ealing, England, May 4, 1825. He was graduated at London University in 1845. as a naval surgeon. In 1851 he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society; Professor of Natural History in the School of Mines in 1854; Hunterian Professor in the Royal College of Surgeons in 1863; president of the British Geological and Ethnological Societies in 1869; secretary of the Royal Society in 1872; Lord Rector of Aberdeen Univer- THOMAS H. HUXLEY Society in 1883. He was an able adsity in 1872; and president of the Royal vocate of Darwinian evolution, and was perhaps best known to the popular apprehension by his agnostic speculations, in expounding which he came into controversy with the defenders of Theism omy of Vertebrate Animals"; "Anatomy of Invertebrate Animals"; "Man's Place in Nature"; "Lay Sermons"; "Evolution Christianity. He wrote: "Anatand Ethics"; etc. He died in Eastbourne, England, June 29, 1895. HUY (ü-ē), a town of Belgium; on both banks of the Meuse, 19 miles S. W. of Liége. Its citadel (1822), whose works are partly excavated in the solid rock, commands the passage of the river.

The Church of Notre Dame, a graceful Gothic edifice, was begun in 1311. In the vicinity are iron works and coal mines, and the manufactures include paper, leather, beer, spirits, etc. Peter the Hermit founded here the former abbey of Neufmoustier (Novum Monasterium), and here in 1115, he died. Huy has been frequently besieged. In the World War, when Belgium was invaded by the Germans, Huy was attacked and only yielded to superior numbers after heavy fighting. Pop. about 15,000. HUYGENS