Thanks Huxley for gift of his valuable papers; sends his report on Shell-fisheries; his differences with Owen; highly pleased with Huxley's article on the Origin [Westminster Review, April 1860, cf Life and Letters of Charles Darwin ii, 329]; effect of Darwinism in Russia; messages to Busk, Murchison and Tyndall. [Not signed]
In French

Gratified to hear of award of Copley Medal; cannot attend personally to receive it; asks that it may be sent through the Embassy
In German

Has received Copley Medal and is much gratified; suspects Huxley to be author of a complimentary reference to himself in Quarterly Review; has worked on Fisheries; sends list of English books he wishes to obtain
In German

Sends his book on the Bible and Science. Is a Hebrew Scholar [The Hebrew Bible and Science, London, 1889]

Murchison has approved plan [for the Niger Expedition of 1854] and will bring it before Geological and Geographical Sections of the British Association and desires Huxley to submit it to the Natural History Section

Acknowledges gift of The Crayfish

Sends critique on John Grote's book [Exploratio Philosophica, 1865]

Omitted to put his initials to the article

Senate desire Huxley to retire from Rectorship of Aberdeen University a month earlier, as the date of election has been altered

Preliminary meeting in Library of House of Lords

Notice of meeting

Understands that Huxley will be consulted as to vacant professorship in Dublin and recommends Adam Sedgwick

Thanks for specimens of Peripatus, of which he is studying the nervous system

Thanks for congratulations on his marriage. Congratulates Huxley on election as President of the Royal Society

Particulars of the Aberdeen professorship and possible competitors

Congratulates Huxley on election as President of the Royal Society. Unable to continue botanical lectures through ill-health

Regrets Huxley's health prevents his attendance at the Philosophical Club. Has been to Tenerife and Sweden and hopes to go with Hooker to Japan

Sends his book [Effects of Use and Disuse, 1890] and makes many interesting observations on heredity, evolution, etc. [Huxley's long and appreciative reply, Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley ii, 267]

Acknowledgment of Huxley's letter

Long commentary on Huxley's observations

Huxley's essays on General Booth and Gladstone; the Aryan question. The Collected Essays of Thomas Henry Huxley iv, 164; vii, 271; ix, 188]

His correspondence with Huxley, and his contacts with Professor Poulton, Sir Francis Darwin and others
Letter written to Leonard Huxley

Announces that Huxley has been unanimously elected as a Corresponding Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Lisbon

Can send as requested some specimens of B decadactylus but they are old spirit specimens, and he will endeavour to procure fresh ones

Arrangements for Huxley's lecture [The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley i, 146]

Acknowledges manuscript of Animal Individuality

Asks for note of charges incurred by "the Great Service you rendered to the R.I. last night"

Cambridge YMCA Committee much gratified by Huxley's consent to lecture. [Lecture delivered 24 March 1870; The Collected Essays of Thomas Henry Huxley i, 166]

Is sending specimen of Melapterurus

Directions for writing to Dr Baikie [then Naturalist to Niger Expedition]

A friendly letter to his former pupil giving news of Clarke, Richardson and others

Examination of specimens of Sphagnum with various reagents, suggesting spontaneous generation. [Endorsed by Huxley urging him not to publish until sure of his ground]

Further examination of his preparations and the spiral fibres

Asks reason why Royal Society Committee of Papers directed his last paper "to be deposited in the Archives of the Society", and the name of the referee

Names of referees always treated as confidential. Offers to lay Bastian's letter before Council if desired
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Congratulates Huxley on election as President of the Royal Society

Structure of Crustacea

Is sending his studies in the French economists and is glad to find his views on positivism confirmed by Huxley's

On the value of the Bible. Urges Huxley to write on its claims in modern life

Sends newscutting on the "School Board Compromise" on the Bible, and stigmatizes it as "hush-up" [Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley i, 345]

Long and vigorous reply by Huxley explaining the Compromise of 1871 and his own attitude to it [Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley i, 345-6]
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

A grateful acknowledgment. The influence of Evolution upon Biblical teaching

[To Edward Forbes]. Thinks with Murchison that Forbes would be popular as President of the Geological Society. [He was elected President of the Geological Society in 1853]; funeral of Duke of Wellington

[To Edward Forbes]. Discussion with Hooker on coal examinations; arrival of specimens from Belcher's expedition

Princess Louise of Hesse would like to see the Science Primers translated into German

Has delayed replying until he could ascertain the views of the publishers; a German firm is already negotiating
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

City and Guilds Institute. Sends Report and relies on Huxley's guidance

Regrets Huxley will not be President of the Marine Biological Association but Council desire him to be a Vice President

Declines on the ground that a Vice President is on the Council and he cannot attend regularly
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Proposals for amalgamation [The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley, iii, 562]
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Is in favour of the amalgamation of the Anthropological Society (of which he is President) with the Ethnological

Negotiations and difficulties of the proposed amalgamation

Same subject as 00202. [cf The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley iii, 563]

Thinks Huxley has dealt "a very hard and damaging blow" to the Positivists, amounting to "putting Comte on the Index Expurgatorius". Defends Positivism. [cf Lay Sermons, Chapter VIII]

Sends his pamphlet Eureka to be laid before the Royal Society as a new interpretation of certain scientific phenomena. Describes himself as "an obscure colonist". Has sent 250 by post to various societies and scientific men and is hurt that his efforts have been ignored. [Eureka: an Elucidation of Mysteries in Nature, privately printed, 1883]

Has sent his paper [on Salpa and Pyrosoma, The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley i, 38] to printer. Is sorry to hear Toronto in contemplation: "Would that we could find something good to tempt you to remain among us"

Encloses testimonial but regrets "the loss I am thereby endeavouring to promote". Has consulted Sabine about it

Testimonial for Toronto [Testimonials of Thomas H Huxley, FRS, Candidate for the Chair of Natural History at the University of Toronto 2]

Recommends for acceptance by Committee of Papers of the Royal Society of Embleton and Hancock's paper on Doris

Asks Huxley's support for Dr Carter as candidate for Prosectorship of the Zoological Society. [Carter was unsuccessful: James Murie was appointed]

Suggests further diagrams for a paper or book by Huxley not specified

Thanks for information about nets and other collecting equipment for marine zoology. Is about to make a six months' exploring voyage and will visit England before starting
In French

Acknowledges receipt of dredge-nets, letter and portrait
In French

Thanks for gift of Huxley's Anatomy of Invertebrated Animals
In French

Asks Huxley's help in the celebrations in honour of Professor Schwann [Theodor S 1810-1882] of which he is Secretary. Has sent circulars to principal British learned societies (list) and has sent some to Ray Lankester for distribution to the Universities
In French

Asks Huxley to adjudicate on a difference of opinion between Beneden and Lankester on certain structures in the Platodes and is ready to admit himself wrong if Huxley thinks so
In French

His friend Paul Bert desires to produce an English edition of his school-book (of which 200,000 copies were sold in one year) and desires Huxley to write a foreword

Thanks for Huxley's papers and offers copies of his own. Has invited Flower to take part in his excavations which are yielding human bones and skulls and extends invitation to Huxley
In French

Thanks for proofs and for completed copy of Report on Fisheries
In French

Enquiries about cetacean bones from New Zealand. Thanks for civilities to him and his son when visiting London
In French

Is very flattered by his election as Foreign Member of the Royal Society and attributes it to Huxley. Regrets ill-health prevents intended visit to England
In French

Description of metatarsal bones; on Iguanodon
In French

Sends letter from a minister who has held an enquiry on the conditions of workmen and asks Huxley to supply the information asked for
In French

Sends draft memorandum on Museums for comment and criticism

[To Spottiswoode]. Asks him to consult with Huxley on the Ayrton affair [cf Life and Letters of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker ii, 159-177]; desires to avoid a newspaper controversy

Photograph

Enclosing letters from the Treasury concerning Huxley's expenses on the Scottish Universities Commission

Huxley's reply and explanation
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Is indignant at what she considers a literary fraud on Huxley by Dr E B Aveling

"I am used to abuse and prefer that it should take the form of stupidity". Huxley quite appreciates Mrs Besant's desire to dissociate herself from the affair
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Sends petition for Huxley's signature

Encloses cutting relating to a prosecution for cruelty to children, and urges Huxley to write on the question in the press

Wants Huxley to join the Hunterian School, "a reputable set of fellows"

Arrangements about a lecture by Huxley at the Russell Institution

Desires Huxley's support for Charles Watts, Secular Education candidate for School Board Election

Declines to support Watts, whom he considers unsuitable
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Invitation to a dinner and request that Huxley will reply for the professors

Has sent Huxley a manuscript exposing spiritualist frauds. Long letter on same subject

Asks Huxley's opinion on the possibility of collecting reliable evidence as to continued conscious existence after death

Thanks Huxley for his "serious reply". Encloses suggestions as to experiments

Again thanks Huxley for reply. Hopes if she dies before him, Huxley will note the time of her death

Refers to a meeting at Oxford at which he gave Huxley a 'agion philayma' [in Greek]. Asks for his photograph

Sends his resignation to the Anthropological Society on account of its method of conducting the journal and "the coarse attack upon my friend Prof Rolleston". Returns diploma of Honorary Fellowship
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Will lay Huxley's resignation before Council. Sends extract from Presidential Address to justify the Society's procedure

Will make the address sent the basis of his present action if preferred, and declines to remain a member of the Society which has produced such a journal. [cf HUNT, J, Nos 5,6]
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Sends a paper by Dr Bowles on Sunburn and its physiological action on the skin

The origin of the Arabian horse. Has read works of Pietrement, but cannot accept all the facts. Desires to talk to Huxley on the matter. [Huxley has indicated his willingness by a note on the letter. Blunt was a breeder of Arab horses]

Makes appointment for a sitting
Original letter, signed, by Huxley. This letter was presented by Dr J S Huxley through the Friends of the National Libraries

Presents a terra-cotta bust of Huxley
Letter written to Mrs Huxley

Asks permission to translate the Science Primers into Russian

Comment on Huxley's article on Agnosticism. [Nineteenth Century Feb 1889; The Collected Essays of Thomas Henry Huxley v, 209]. [Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley ii, 227-8]. Huxley's reply endorsed

Acknowledges gift of book [Secularism, its Progress and Morals, London, 1894]
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

[From Sir J D Hooker]. His reasons for disapproving of a British Association fund for entertaining foreign visitors. [cf HOOKER, J D, No 235]

States that Huxley promised to have his book reviewed in Nature and the Academy

Huxley indignantly denies that he ever made such a promise
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Calls Huxley's letter "the last ounce for the camel's back"

Wishes success to the book, but is surprised Bonwick makes no withdrawal of his false statement
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Apology. [The book in question is The Last of the Tasmanians, London, 1870]

Is working as archivist to New South Wales Government. Has prepared a work on Irish history and religion and hopes for Huxley's favourable notice of it

Sends two papers of his own on racial identity. Discusses Huxley's paper on the Aryan question

Is member of committee for providing educational and recreational facilities for the parish of St Mary-Extra, Southampton, and asks Huxley for gift of his books

Thanks Huxley for appreciation of his book [Le Probleme de la Mort] and for sending him his "discours sur l'Evolution et la morale", [Romanes Lecture]
In French

Congratulates Huxley on election as President of the Royal Society

Invites Huxley to speak at meeting for promotion of a Jowett memorial

Asks Huxley to second resolution which will be proposed by Lord Coleridge

Has proposed Huxley as a member of the Palaeontographical Society as it is desired he should be a member of the Council

Congratulates Huxley on election as President of the Royal Society

Date of Romanes Lecture

Same as 00267. Romanes is in Madeira

Same as 00267 and 00268; fixed for May 18

Offers reserved tickets

Desires interview for an article "Celebrities at Home" in the World newspaper

"My rule against being interviewed is absolute"
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

A misreported reference to Spottiswoode in one of his sermons

Burial of Spottiswoode in the Abbey; gave his consent, but has misgivings

Suffers from indigestion; news

Insect pests in naval stores. Will send specimens in spirit for examination. [Huxley's notes on the examination are among his papers]

Various matters arising out of the death of Albany Hancock; a letter from Lacaze-Duthiers [qv]. The genus Eugyra

Sends notes on Oyster-spatting in County Sligo

The petition to the Dean of Westminster for burial of Spottiswoode in the Abbey

Has attended Huxley's lectures at Royal College of Surgeons. Differs on some points of classification of Invertebrates; the skull of the Gorilla; his own lectures at London Institution

Asks leave to publish correspondence about Thomas Thomasson [manufacturer and political economist; 1808-1876], and encloses obituary of him. [See THOMASSON, J P, No 1]

Has studied Huxley's Lessons in Physiology with profit and pleasure, but regrets absence of sexual physiology

Invitation to dinner

Wants information of the measurements of the floor-area of Royal College of Surgeons Museum and Zoological Galleries of the British Museum

His action at Council meeting of Royal Society at which Brodie's letter of resignation from Presidency was read
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Approves of Huxley's action. His letter was written after consultation with Sharpey, Bell and others

Sounds Huxley on the possibility of his willingness to be a candidate for Linacre Professorship at Oxford. [Huxley's reply Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley ii, 30]

Congratulates Huxley on election as President of Royal Society

Invites Huxley to be his guest at British Association meeting; death of Tyndall

Repeats invitation

Thanks for gift of Huxley's essays; effects of the doctrine of Evolution; pleasure at having had Huxley as guest during British Association meeting

Sends particulars of Huxley's letters to him for possible use in Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley
Letter written to Leonard Huxley

Irish political affairs

Arrangements for six lectures by Huxley on Biology

Congratulates Huxley on his appointment to HMS Fishguard; news of former shipmates

Asks Huxley for his Structure of the Belemnitidae [The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley iii ii] and Crocodilian Remains in the Elgin Sandstones [The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley iv, 188]

Sends his biography of John Adington Symonds

His travels abroad

Sends photographs of Diprotodon remains found at Lake Mulligan

Desires Huxley to lecture at Providence Franklin Society of which he is President

Experiments in transmission of acquired characters; wishes to exhibit results at British Association, also observations on functions of the nervous system

Consultation with Paris police about a bogus Count. [See HOOKER, J D, No 221]

Thanks Huxley for putting Paul Bert in touch with a reviser of his book; poison-glands in toads

[To J R Lowell]. Royal concession to Mrs Huxley in attending a Court function

Unable to accept invitation

Acceptance of invitation

Acceptance of invitation

Acceptance of an invitation; concern at her great anxieties. [Three of the family had diphtheria]

Invites Huxley to sit for Alphonse Legros, who had painted the poet's own portrait on the previous day in one sitting
The second and third pages of this letter are reproduced in the Report of the Friends of the National Libraries 1938, plate vi

Pleased with Huxley's acceptance, and will arrange appointment with Legros

History of the discovery of the fossils in Jarrow Colliery, Kilkenny, with permission to Huxley to publish them

The specimens shall be returned to him; they were dispatched to Professor E P Wright [qv] more than a year ago
Original letter, signed, by Huxley

Asks Huxley's advice as to selecting the best of the four candidates (named) for the chair of Natural History at Edinburgh

Asks Huxley if he can serve on the Royal Commission on Contagious Diseases

Pressure of engagements and inability to attend regularly preclude acceptance but offers to help with the Report
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Long letter concerning a recent minute of the Science Schools Board on teaching physiology. (Also rough draft of same)
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Understands that nomination for Toronto professorship rests with Lord Elgin as Governor-General of Canada, and encloses letter from Lord Stanley of Alderley and copies of his testimonials
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Chatty letter dealing with personal and family matters

Chatty letter dealing with personal and family matters

Chatty letter dealing with personal and family matters

Chatty letter dealing with personal and family matters

Chatty letter dealing with personal and family matters

Chatty letter dealing with personal and family matters

Chatty letter dealing with personal and family matters

Chatty letter dealing with personal and family matters

Chatty letter dealing with personal and family matters

[From Louise Brunton]. Family matters

Thanks Huxley for present of his works, and asks him to autograph them

Family matters

Family matters; often thinks of Huxley; death of his wife; her last illness

In the USA he met a man "who identified Mundella and Gambetta; and another who had created a composite being out of Herbert Spencer and the present First Lord of the Admiralty"

A Royal Commission on Salmon Fisheries is contemplated; asks if he will serve, and, if not, if he can suggest two suitable persons

Wished to ask permission to translate Man's Place into German, but learns that Carus has already done so; wishes to make notes and references to it in his notes on Schaffhausen's Urform des Menschlichen Schadels

Has published a letter in The Times, but regrets that the writer of it did not first reply to Times criticisms in that journal instead of in Nature

Queries on consciousness, etc, arising out of Huxley's Royal Institution lecture. [Metaphysics of Sensation]

Congratulates Huxley on his return as President of the Royal Society

Asks for information on consciousness and its relation to the laws of Physics

The fulsome effusion of a hero-worshipper

Sends copies of his essays on the origin and development of Trinitarianism

[To Miss Arnold]. Invitation

Unable to attend on date named, but will do so following week
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Application for appointment to Naval Medical Service, and his qualifications
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Having completed a year's service as Acting Assistant Surgeon, RN, asks for confirmation and encloses certificates
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

[See also 00021 for another letter from Burnett]

Sends ticket for RA Lectures

The affairs of Mrs George Huxley on her remarriage

Asks for examination of the lease of the ground on which he intends to build. [Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley i, 383]

Sends note from Montague Cookson (qv) that judgement will be given in Huxley's favour. [cf Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley i, 384]

Costs in Huxley's suit will be paid by the other party

Has completed conveyance of the property [at Eastbourne] and sends deed for execution

Thanks for gift of book [Hume]

Has found 7 species of Polyzoa in Dr Sutherland's collection, 3 of which are undescribed. Appends list of Arctic Polyzoa collected on voyage of HMS Sophia

Invites Huxley to stay and bring his microscope and other equipment with him

Thinks Kolliker's Manual excellent and that a translation would be acceptable. Urges Huxley to undertake the translation by himself. [It was translated and edited by Huxley and Busk jointly in 1853]

Has heard from Lankester that the Sydenham Society desired Busk to translate Kolliker, but the Society dropped the proposal. Should have £5 5s 0d a sheet for translations, though Lankester only got £3 3s 0d for translating Schleiden

Sends note from Bennett with enquiry (not specified). Time for making the translation is short

Huxley's chances as a candidate for Professorship of Physiology at King's College and Busk's efforts on his behalf. [cf Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley i, 107]

A very generous action by Busk

Signed photograph

Invites Huxley to meet Jamaica Committee to consider a report

Exchanging calls