Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley

This three-volume work is the 1903 second edition of the biography and selected letters of 'Darwin's Bulldog', T. H. Huxley.

Leonard Huxley (Author), Thomas Henry Huxley (Author)

9781108040457, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 22 December 2011

482 pages, 1 b/w illus.
21.6 x 14 x 2.7 cm, 0.61 kg

Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95), the English biologist and naturalist, was known as 'Darwin's Bulldog', and is best remembered today for his vociferous support for Darwin's theory of evolution. He was, however, an influential naturalist, anatomist and religious thinker, who coined the term 'agnostic' to describe his own beliefs. Almost entirely self-educated, he became an authority in anatomy and palaeontology, and after the discovery of the archaeopteryx, he was the first to suggest that birds had evolved from dinosaurs. He was also a keen promoter of scientific education who strove to make science a paid profession, not dependent on patronage or wealth. Published in 1903, this three-volume work, edited by his son Leonard Huxley, is the second and most complete edition of Huxley's biography and selected letters. Volume 1 covers the period 1825–69, including his expedition to Australasia and the publication of the On the Origin of Species (1859).

Preface
1. 1825–42
2. 1841–46
3. 1846–49
4. 1848–50
5. 1850–54
6. 1851–54
7. 1851–53
8. 1854
9. 1855
10. 1855–58
11. 1857–58
12. 1859–60
13. 1859
14. 1859–60
15. 1860–63
16. 1860–61
17. 1861–63
18. 1864
19. 1865
20. 1866
21. 1867
22. 1868
23. 1869.

Subject Areas: History of science [PDX]