Professor Huxley has made the best pun of recent years.
He has been elected Lord Rector of Aberdeen, and delivered an installation lecture on Universities, what they are, and what they ought to be, his object being as usual to press the necessity of more scientific education, which now, he complains, can lead to nothing in the way of pay. He had hoped, he said, to see part of the revenues of Oxford and Cambridge devoted to science, but just as the inquiry into those revenues was finished and all was hopeful, the elections came, " Bos locutus eat," and all hope was swept away. The miracle has happened, "Bull has spoken ;" but as he is only a beast, intellectual advancement is not to be got out of him. That is neat, particularly when one remembers that when- ever this kind of miracle happened at Rome, misfortune was sure to be at hand.
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