To use the technical term, he was a Morphologist: one who studied the architecture of animals not merely in a spirit of admiring wonder, but with the definite idea of finding out the guiding principles which had determined these shapes.
"Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work"
P. Chalmers Mitchell
It is therefore utterly inconceivable and in the highest degree improbable that this long chain of chance circumstances should have happened a second time in America, and have been responsible for the creation of the same bizarre story in reference to one of the rarer American snakes of a localized distribution, whose horns are mere vestiges, which no one but a trained Morphologist is likely to have noticed or recognized as such.
"The Evolution of the Dragon"
G. Elliot Smith
In the ever greater and greater specialising of science which has taken place, Huxley was chiefly a Morphologist.
"A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895)"
George Saintsbury