Thomas Henry Huxley
Male : Scientist &
Surgeon. Went on the Expedition in HMS Rattlesnake to survey the waters
of New Guinea and Australia in 1847-50. A champion of Darwin and
inventor of the term 'agnostic'
Nationality : English
Place of Birth : Ealing, Middlesex
Date of Birth : 1825 Date of Death : 1895 Age : 70
Other Work : President of the Royal Society 1883
Education : Medical degree at Charing X Hospital
1853-1860
(Trans) Kolliker's Manual of Human Histology (1853) - with Busk
The Oceanic Hydrozoa (1858 Ray Society)
On the Educational Value of the Natural History Sciences (1859)
Time and Life (1859)
The Origin of Species (1860)
1861-1870
A Lobster, or the Study of Zoology (1861)
Geological Contemporaneity and Persistent Types of Life (1862)
On Our Onowledge of the Causes of the Phenomena of Organic Lecture (1863 Robert Hardwicke)
Six Lectures to Working Men on the Phenomena of Organic Nature (1863 Hardwicke)
Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature (1863 Williams & Norgate)
Offered in 1999 for £350
An Elementary Atlas of Comparative Osteology (1864 Williams & Norgate)
Lectures on the Elements of Comparative Anatomy (1864 John Churchill, London)
A Catalogue of the Collection of Fossils in the Museum of Practical Geology
(1865) - with Robert Etheridge
Lessons in Elementary Physiology (1866 Macmillan)
An Introduction to the Classification of Animals (1869 Churchill, London)
Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews (1870 Macmillan)
1871-1880
Manual of the Anatomy of Vertebrated Animals (1871)
Critiques and and Addresses (1873 Macmillan)
On Yeast : A Lecture (1872)
A Course of Practical Instruction in Elementary Biology (1875) - with H N Martin
Protoplasm, Powheads, Porwiggles : and the Evolution of the Horse from the Rhinoceros
(1875 Aberdeen) - Anon but in fact written by Rev John Allan, a minister in Aberdeen
A Manual of the Anatomy of Vertebrated Animals (1877 J & A Churchill)
American Addresses, with a Lecture on the Study of Biology (1877 London) (1877 Appleton, NY)
Physiography : An Introduction to the Study of Nature (1877 London)
Life of Hume (1878) (1879 Harper NY)
David Hume (1879 Macmillan)
Introductory Science Primer (1880)
The Crayfish : An Introduction to the Study of Zoology (1880 Kegan Paul) - 250 Large paper
After 1881
Science and Culture, and Other Essays (1881 Macmillan)
American Addresses with a Lecture on the Study of Biology (1886)
Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews (1887 Macmillan)
Social Diseases and Worse Remedies (1891)
Essays upon some Controverted Questions (1892 Macmillan)
Evolution and Ethics (1892)
Collected Essays (1893-4 London) - 9 vols
The Scientific Memoirs (1898-1902 London) - 5 vols
Yoga : Hindu Delusions, with Its Explanations (1902 Christian Literature Society for India)
Man's Place in Nature and a Supplementary Essay (1908 Watts, London)
Diary of the Voyage of HMS Rattlesnake : Edited from an Unpublished MS by Julian Huxley
(1935 Chatto & Windus)
READING
The Scientific Memoirs of T H Huxley (Edited Prof Michael Foster & Prof E Ray Lankester)
(1898-1903 London) - 5 vols
(Ed) Leonard Huxley : Life and Letters (1900 London) - 2 vols
P C Mitchell : T H Huxley - A Sketch of His Life & Work (1900 Putnam, NY)
Leonard Huxley : Life & Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley (1913 Macmillan) - 3 vols
Cyril Bibby : T H Huxley - Scientist, Humanist & Educator (1959 Watts, London)
Adrian Desmond : Huxley - The Devil's Disciple (1994 Michael Joseph £20)
Adrian Desmond : Huxley - Evolution's High Priest Vol II (1997 Michael Joseph £20)