Thomas Henry Huxley
- "My good and kind agent for the propagation of the Gospel; i.e. the Devil's gospel". [Charles Darwin, quoted by Desmond 1994, xiii]
- "I think his tone is much too vehement" [Charles Darwin in letter to Hooker about THH's Royal Institution lecture in 1854]
- "Huxley gave the death-blow not only to Owen's theory of the skull but also to Owen's hitherto unchallenged prestige"[132]
- "Pope Huxley" title of an article by R.H. Hutton who complains that whilst THH advocates agnosticism for everyone else, he's apt to be a mite too certain himself! [The Spectator 29th Jan 1870]
- "If he [THH] has a fault it is... that like Caesar, he is ambitious... [it might be said that] cutting up apes is his forté, cutting up men is his foible" ['A Devonshire Man' in the Pall Mall Gazette Jan 18th 1870]
- "Darwin's bulldog was patently a man of almost puritanical uprightness"[133]
- "Archbishop Huxley and Professor Manning" [Bishop Thirwell Letters to a friend 1887 p.317]
- "A man who was always taking two irons out of the fire and putting three in" [Herbert Spencer]
- "It was worth being born to have known Huxley." [Edward Clodd 1840–1930, biologist and biographer in Memories 1916, p40]
- "The illustrious comparative anatomist, Huxley, Darwin's great general in the battles that had to be fought, but not a naturalist, far less a student of living nature." [Edward Bagnall Poulton Charles Darwin and the origin of species London 1909 p58]
- "From [1854] until 1885 Huxley's labours extended over the widest field of biology and philosophy ever covered by any naturalist with the single exception of Aristotle"[134]
- "Huxley, I believe, was the greatest Englishman of the nineteenth century." [H.L. Mencken 1925]
- "I believed that he was the greatest man I was ever likely to meet, and I believe that all the more firmly today" [H.G. Wells in The Royal College of Science Magazine, 1901]
- "Huxleyism: the theory of the anthropoid descent of man and its inevitable consequences." [Clarence Ayres, Huxley p242]
- "Oh, there goes Professor Huxley; faded but still fascinating" Woman overheard at B.A. meeting of 1878.[135][136]
- "I'm a good Christian woman—I'm not an infidel like you!" Huxley's cook on being scolded by THH for drunkenness.[137]
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See also
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Notes
- ^ Encyclopædia Britannica Online 2006
- ^ Bibby, amongst others, queried this account, which owes its origin to Leonard Huxley's biography (1900). Bibby, Cyril 1959. T.H. Huxley: scientist, humanist and educator. Watts, London. p3 et seq
- ^ Desmond 1994
- ^ Huxley 1900
- ^ Chesney, Kellow 1970. The Victorian underworld. Temple Smith, London; Pelican 1972, p105 and p421.
- ^ Desmond 1994
- ^ Huxley 1900
- ^ Desmond 1994, p. 35
- ^ Huxley 1935
- ^ Di Gregorio 1984
- ^ Huxley 1859
- ^ Tyndall 1896, p. 7,9,66,71
- ^ Holland 2007, p. 153–5
- ^ Desmond 1994
- ^ Huxley 1900
- ^ Foster & Lankester 1898-1903
- ^ MacGillivray 1852
- ^ Huxley 1900
- ^ Foster & Lankester 1898-1903, p. 538–606
- ^ Huxley 1862a, p. 420–22
- ^ Huxley 1862b
- ^ Di Gregorio 1984
- ^ Behar, Doran M., Richard Villems et al. 2008. The dawn of human matrilineal diversity. Am J. Human Genetics 82, 1130-1140.
- ^ Balaresque P.L., Ballereau S.J. and Jobling M.A. 2007. Challenges in human genetic diversity: demographic history and adaptation. Human molecular genetics 16 (R2), R134-9.
- ^ Jobling M.A., Hurles M.E. & Tylor-Smith C. 2004. Human evolutionary genetics: origins, peoples and disease. Garland, N.Y.
- ^ Huxley T.H. 1859. On the persistent types of animal life. Proceedings of the Royal Institution.
- ^ Desmond A. 1982. Archetypes and ancestors: palaeontology in Victorian London 1850-1875. Muller, London.
- ^ Clack 2002
- ^ Huxley 1861, p. 67-84
- ^ Foster & Lankester 1898-1903, p. 163–87
- ^ Foster & Lankester 1898-1903
- ^ Paul 2002, p. 171-224
- ^ Prum 2003, p. 550-561
- ^ Desmond 1997, p. 88 et seq
- ^ Huxley 1877
- ^ Bibby 1972
- ^ Desmond 1997, p. 230
- ^ Desmond & Moore 1991
- ^ Desmond 1997
- ^ Huxley 1900
- ^ Desmond 1998, p. 431
- ^ Lyons 1999, p. 11
- ^ Huxley 1900
- ^ Huxley 1854, p. 425–39
- ^ Huxley 1855, p. 82–85
- ^ Browne 1995
- ^ Desmond 1994, p. 222 et seq
- ^ Browne 2002
- ^ Darwin & Wallace 1858, p. 45-62
- ^ Huxley 1893-94a, p. 1-20
- ^ Foster & Lankester 1898-1903, p. 400
- ^ Owen 1860
- ^ Wilberforce 1860
- ^ Darwin, Francis (ed) 1887. The life and letters of Charles Darwin, including an autobiographical chapter. Murray, London, volume 2.
- ^ Jensen, J. Vernon 1991. Thomas Henry Huxley: communicating for science. U. of Delaware Press, Newark. p209, note 67
- ^ Desmond & Moore 1991 p493
- ^ Wollaston AFR 1921. Life of Alfred Newton: late Professor of Comparative Anatomy, Cambridge University 1866-1907, with a Preface by Sir Archibald Geikie OM. Dutton, NY. p118-120
- ^ Jensen, J. Vernon 1991. Thomas Henry Huxley: communicating for science. U. of Delaware Press, Newark. [Chapter 3 is an excellent survey, and its notes gives references to all the eyewitness accounts except Newton: see notes 61, 66, 67, 78, 79, 80, 81, 84, 86, 87, 89, 90, 93, 95: p208-211]
- ^ Huxley to Dr FD Dyster, 9th September 1860, Huxley Papers 15.117.
- ^ Browne 2002, p. 118 et seq.
- ^ Huxley 1900, p. chapter 14
- ^ Desmond 1994, p. 276–281
- ^ Lucas 1979, p. 313-330 A pro-Wilberforce account; lists many sources, but not Alfred Newton's letter to his brother. Many of Lucas' points are treated adversely in Jensen (op cit), e.g. note 77, p209.
- ^ Gould 1991 Chapter 26 'Knight takes Bishop?' is Gould's take on the Huxley-Wilberforce debate.
- ^ Darwin F. (ed) 1897-99. Life and letters of Charles Darwin. 2 vols, Murray, London. I, 156-7 Darwin to Huxley: "It is of enourmous importance the showing the world that a few first-rate men are not afraid of expressing their opinion."
- ^ Darwin F. and A.C.Seward (eds) 1903. More letters of Charles Darwin. 2 vols, Murray, London. II, 204 Leonard Huxley: "The importance... lay in the open resistance that was made to authority."
- ^ Jensen, J. Vernon 1991. Thomas Henry Huxley: communicating for science. U. of Delaware Press, Newark. p83-6
- ^ Darwin 1859, p 490
- ^ Owen 1858, p. 1-37
- ^ Burkhardt 1984 onwards (continuing series)
- ^ Browne 2002
- ^ Athenaeum September 21, 1861 p498. [key sentence italicised]
- ^ Variously worded in Huxley 1860a, Huxley 1860b, Huxley 1861, Huxley 1862b and Huxley1887
- ^ Poulton 1896 chapter 18 gives detailed quotations from Huxley and discussion—Darwin's letters to Huxley being not yet published
- ^ Letters CD to THH in Darwin & Seward 1903 vol 1 p137-8, 225-6, 230-2, 274, 277, 287
- ^ Cronin 1991, p. 397
- ^ Mayr 1982
- ^ Huxley 1857, p. 241
- ^ Tyndall 1896, p. 338-339,359,379-383,406 "During the summer of 1857 he carefully experimented with coloured liquids on the Mer de Glace and its tributaries ... Phil. Mag. 1857, vol xiv., p. 241"
- ^ Tyndall 1857, p. 327-346
- ^ Jensen 1970, p. 63-72
- ^ Desmond 1994, p. 284, 289–90
- ^ Barr 1997, p. 1
- ^ Irvine 1955 Chapter 15
- ^ Desmond 1997, p. 123
- ^ Bibby 1959
- ^ Osborn 1924
- ^ Desmond 1997, p. 14 and 60
- ^ Desmond 1997
- ^ Charles Darwin to Asa Gray 1860 in Darwin & Seward 1903, p. 153
- ^ Lester 1995, p. 67
- ^ Wollaston 1921, p. 102
- ^ MacBride 1934, p. 65
- ^ Pritchard 1994 Date based on comparison with other portraits of known date. Photo is by the firm of William & Daniel Downey, active ca. 1872-1919; photographer probably John Edwards
- ^ Ruse 1997
- ^ Desmond 1997, p. 273 note 20
- ^ Desmond 1997
- ^ Huxley 1893-94b, p. 397
- ^ Bibby 1959, p. 153
- ^ School Board Chronicle vol 2, p.326
- ^ Bibby 1959, p. 155
- ^ Mayr 1982, p. 80
- ^ School Board Chronicle vol 2, p.360
- ^ Bibby 1959, p. 155
- ^ White 2003, p. 69 et seq
- ^ Note: articles are listed, and some are available, in The Huxley File at Clark University
- ^ Bibby 1959, p. 33
- ^ Desmond 1994, p. 361–2
- ^ Desmond 1994 Chapter 19
- ^ Huxley 1900
- ^ letter THH to eldest sister Lizzie 1853 HP 31.21
- ^ THH to Lizzie 1858 HP 31.24
- ^ THH to Lizzie HP 31.44
- ^ THH to JT 1887 HP 9.164
- ^ Desmond 1997
- ^ Bibby 1972, p. 7
- ^ Huxley 1935 Chapter 5 'Wanderings of a human soul'
- ^ Huxley 1935
- ^ Desmond 1997, p. 27
- ^ Desmond 1997, p. 49
- ^ Desmond 1997, p. 151 et seq
- ^ Mackenzie 1982, p. 202-3
- ^ Webb 1926
- ^ Clark 1968
- ^ Galton 1892, p. xix
- ^ Desmond 1994, p. 296
- ^ pamphlet, published by George Pycraft, London 1863; Huxley Papers 79.6
- ^ Darwin 1887, p. 287
- ^ Bibby 1958, p. 73 HP 2.98
- ^ Bibby 1958, p. 182 HP: 30.448
- ^ Huxley papers at Imperial College London HP 2.454
- ^ Osborn 1924, p. 113
- ^ Bibby 1958, p. 56
- ^ Osborn 1924, p. 107–8
- ^ Huxley 1900 vol 2, p.63
- ^ Bibby 1958, p. 80
- ^ Desmond 1997, p. 7
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- Duncan, David (1908), Life and Letters of Herbert Spencer. 2 vols, Michael Joseph
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- Gould, Stephen Jay (1991), Bully for Brontosaurus, Random House
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- Huxley, Thomas Henry (1854), “Review of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, tenth edition”, British and Foreign Medico-Chirurgical Review (no. 13)
- Huxley, Thomas Henry (1855), “On certain zoological arguments commonly adduced in favour of the hypothesis of the progressive development of animal life in time”, Proceedings of the Royal Institution 2 (1854–58)
- Huxley, Thomas Henry (1857), “untitled letter on theory of glaciers”, Philosophical Magazine xiv: 241
- Huxley, Thomas Henry (1859), The Oceanic Hydrozoa, London: The Ray Society, ISBN 0300030622
- Huxley, Thomas Henry (1860a), “On species, and races and their origin”, Proc. Roy. Inst. 1858-62 (no. III): 195
- Huxley, Thomas Henry (1860b), “The origin of species”, Westminster Review (no. April)
- Huxley, Thomas Henry (1861), “On the zoological relations of man with the lower animals”, Natural History Review (new series) (no. 1)
- Huxley, Thomas Henry (1862a), On the fossil remains of Man, vol. III, London: The Royal Institution
- Huxley, Thomas Henry (1862b), On our knowledge of the causes of the phenomena of organic nature, London
- Huxley, Thomas Henry (1863), Evidence as to Man's place in nature, London: Williams & Norwood
- Huxley, Thomas Henry (1864), “Further remarks on the human remains from the Neanderthal”, Natural History Review (London) (no. 4): 429–46
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- Huxley, Thomas Henry (1893-94a), Collected essays: vol 2 Darwiniana, London: Macmillan
- Huxley, Thomas Henry (1893-94b), Collected essays: vol 3 Science and education, London: Macmillan
- Huxley, Thomas Henry (1898-1903), “Preliminary essay upon the systematic arrangement of the fishes of the Devonian epoch.”, in Foster, Michael & Lankester, E. Ray, The scientific memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley. vol 2, London: Macmillan, pp. 421–60, ISBN 1432640119
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- Lester, Joe (1995), E. Ray Lankester:the making of modern British biology (edited, with additions, by Peter J. Bowler), BSHS Monograph #9
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- Lyons, Sherrie L (18999), Thomas Henry Huxley: the evolution of a scientist, New York
- MacBride, E.W. (1934), Huxley, London: Duckworth
- MacGillivray, John (1852), Narrative of the voyage of HMS Rattlesnake. 2 vols, London: Boone
- Mackenzie, N & Mackenzie, J, eds. (1982), The diaries of Beatrice Webb vol 1 1873–1892, London: Virago
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- McMillan, N.D. & Meehan, J (1980), John Tyndall: 'X'emplar of scientific & technological education, National Council for Educational Awards. (despite its chaotic organisation, this little book contains some nuggets that are well worth sifting)
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- Osborn, Henry Fairfield (1924), Impressions of great naturalists
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- Owen, Richard (1860), “Darwin on the Origin of Species”, Edinburgh Review (no. 111): 487-532
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- Paul, G (2002), “Looking for the true bird ancestor”, Dinosaurs of the Air, the evolution and loss of flight in dinosaurs and birds, Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, pp. 171-224, ISBN 0-8018-6763-0
- Poulton, Edward Bagnall (1896), Charles Darwin and the theory of natural selection, London: Cassell.(Chapter 18 deals with Huxley and natural selection)
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Biographies of Huxley
- Ashforth, Albert. Thomas Henry Huxley. Twayne, New York 1969.
- Ayres, Clarence. Huxley. Norton, New York 1932.
- Bibby, Cyril. T.H. Huxley: scientist, humanist and educator. Watts, London 1959, Horizon Press, N.Y. 1960. Forewords by Sir Julian Huxley and Aldous Huxley. [one of the best biographies, and especially good on his educational work; good plates]
- Bibby, Cyril. Scientist extraordinary: the life and work of Thomas Henry Huxley 1825–1895. Pergamon, Oxford 1972. [not identical with the above, but contains the same plates; includes helpful one-para biogs of THH's circle]
- Clark, Ronald W. The Huxleys. London 1968. [family biogs to the third generation]
- Clodd, Edward. Thomas Henry Huxley. Blackwood, Edinburgh 1902. [apart from the L&L of THH, this is the best of the early biographies; it is organised into five themes: 1. the man 2. the discoverer 3. the interpreter 4. the controversialist 5. the constructor]
- Desmond, Adrian. Huxley: vol 1 The Devil's disciple. London 1994, vol 2 Evolution's high priest. London 1997; paperback edition, 2 vols in one, Penguin 1998. [this is the most comprehensive modern biography; quite outstanding in placing Huxley in his societal context; perhaps not quite so impressive in dealing with his work as a scientist]
- Di Gregorio, Mario A. T.H. Huxley's place in natural science. New Haven 1984. [much-needed; but emphasises THH's careerism too stongly]
- Huxley, Leonard. The life and letters of Thomas Henry Huxley. 2 vols 8vo, Macmillan, London 1900; 2nd ed 3 vols cr8vo, Macmillan, London 1903. [this is a good source for facts pertaining to his life, and includes many letters]
- Huxley, Leonard. Thomas Henry Huxley: a character sketch. Watts, London 1920.
- Irvine, William. Apes, Angels and Victorians. New York 1955. [highly readable joint biography of Darwin and Huxley. It still makes a good intro despite one or two careless errors — it describes (p.81) the 1858 Darwin/Wallace papers as read before the Royal Society instead of the Linnean Society]
- Irvine, William. Thomas Henry Huxley. Longmans, London 1960. [40-page pamphlet]
- Jensen, J. Vernon. Thomas Henry Huxley: communicating for science. University of Delaware, Newark 1991. [centres on Huxley's oral rhetoric]
- Lyons, Sherrie L. Thomas Henry Huxley: the evolution of a scientist. New York 1999. [recognises THH's love of truth as his main motive]
- MacBride E.W. Huxley. Duckworth, London 1934. [author had the dubious distinction of being one of the last Lamarkists to hold a chair of zoology in Britain]
- Mitchell, P. Chalmers. Thomas Henry Huxley: a sketch of his life and work London 1901. see Project Gutenberg. [chapters 3, 5 and 8 on THH's science recommended; contains strange error p29 'Huxley was the only surgeon aboard the Rattlesnake'. He most certainly was not! The surgeon (Huxley's superior officer) was 'Jonny' Thomson]
- Osborn, Henry Fairfield. Impressions of great naturalists. 1924. [by one of THH's students; includes essays on Darwin, Wallace and Huxley]
- Paradis, James G. T.H. Huxley: Man's place in nature. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln 1978. [on Huxley's Humanism]
- Peterson, Houston. Huxley: prophet of science. Longmans Green, London 1932. [excellent & literate; includes reprint of Huxley's Mr Balfour's attack on agnosticism II not previously published]
- White, Paul. Thomas Huxley: making the 'Man of Science'. Cambridge University Press 2003.
- Voorhees, Irving Wilson. The teachings of Thomas Henry Huxley. Broadway, New York 1907.
- The Huxley File. A website created by Charles Blinderman and David Joyce. [this is an indispensable source, though there are some errors, for example, Huxley did not graduate with a degree]
There are also many obituary notices in newspapers, periodicals and reference works.
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- The Huxley File at Clark University - Lists his publications, contains much of his writing.
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- Essays by Thomas Huxley at Quotidiana.org
- Physiography by T.H. Huxley, 1878 on the physical geography of the Thames river basin. Free to read and search (Carnegie Museum of Natural History Library)
- Thomas Henry Huxley; a sketch of his life and work, by P. Chalmers Mitchell, 1900, from Project Gutenberg
- An examination of the evidence for what was said by Wilberforce and Huxley in the 1860 debate on Darwinism.Lucas J. [A pro-Wilberforce account; usefully lists many sources, but appears to overlook the letters of Alfred Newton, which support the traditional account of the debate. Many of Lucas' points are treated adversely in Jensen (op cit), e.g. note 77, p209]
- A Liberal Education
- The Thomas Henry Huxley Award, awarded annually for original work in zoology
- "Has a Frog A Soul", by Thomas Henry Huxley - audio download from LibriVox
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