To report on the suitability of a house in Kensington for a technical school for the City Guilds; asks Huxley to meet him to inspect the premises

Enquires whether Huxley's daughter [Rachel] would accompany her husband Eckersley if he were appointed to Lima, Peru. [Eckersley died at San Salvador in June 1895, before he could take up his appointment, cf Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley ii, 402, and GRENFELL, H R, No 1]

Officers for British Association meeting [at Nottingham]; Huxley to be President of Section D [cf Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley I, 277]

Acquisition of MacGillvray's manuscripts; to be entrusted to the Royal Geographical Society

A proposed monument to Erasmus Darwin; his views in relation to those of his grandson Charles

Sends his pamphlet [Medical Reform, a Social Question, London, 1857]; obstructiveness to scientific research at the Veterinary College

Asks for appointment

Asks for return of a bond for £20 sent when asking for a loan

Letter unintelligible; has never seen such a bond
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Considers Huxley's political essays written from the point of view of the "classes rather than the masses"

Misquotations of statements made by Huxley at a lecture by Dr O'Callaghan [See CHAMBERLAIN, J H, No 1, and LEAMINGTON COURIER, Nos 1,2]

Same subject

Sends a copy of his work on Tertiary Mammals [Les Enchainements du monde animal dans les temps geologiques: Mammiferes tertiaires, Paris, 1878]; sends another copy for the Geological Society; appreciates Huxley's reference to his work in one of his Addresses
Letter written in French

Has installed Bose (introduced by Huxley) in his laboratory; Filhol's researches on canine dentition
Letter written in French

Resents an alleged charge made against him by Huxley as a member of the School Board, he being solicitor to that body

Accepts Huxley's explanation

Further explanation
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

The matter now satisfactorily settled

Has received diploma as Foreign Member of the Royal Society and is very appreciative of the honour
Letter written in German

Condolence on death of Huxley's child

Sympathy in illness

Thanks for congratulations [on his Knighthood]

Sends proof of Board of Trade memorandum on Sea Fisheries for Huxley's suggestions

Thanks Huxley for his suggestions; difficulties of dealing with shell-fish

Sends observations on Huxley's letter by Malan, who has great experience of fishery matters

Full account of his movements since he was a pupil of Huxley; plans spoiled by political situation in Italy; Professor of Natural History at Casale; is forming a museum; discussed Darwinism at Pisa; Italian translation of Man's Place in Nature; future plans

Thanks for address signed by Giglioli and his colleagues
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Regrets at being unable to see Huxley

Asks for autograph

Thanks for placing University in touch with Dr Martin; proposal that Huxley should visit America and give lectures

Trustees' appreciation of Huxley's address; they send a banker's draft to procure some memento of the visit

Encloses letter from William W Forbes, President of University of Minnesota, asking for introduction

The letter addressed to President Gilman, enclosed in no 01486

Sends his Primer of Scientific Morals for Huxley's opinion

A discussion of cause and effect suggested by Huxley's essay Science and Morals

Invitation to breakfast

Sends (as Secretary) appointment of Huxley as a Fellow of the Clarendon Historical Society in recognition of his services to Science

Congratulates Huxley on his election as President of the Royal Society

Sends copy of his paper on Medusae from Philosophical Transactions with an account of his work on the Rattlesnake. [End lost]

Would be happy to hear of Huxley's success [at Toronto] but would rather retain him in England

Has received letter and testimonials and will endeavour to obtain further information

May depend on Goodsir's influence in his favour; Dr Thornton of the Rattlesnake is in Edinburgh

Sends three papers from Kuhn of Berlin

Thanks for Huxley's lecture on Gemmation [Proceedings of the Royal Institution ii, 534, 1858]; asks for the paper on the Theory of the Vertebrate Skull [Proceedings of the Royal Society ix, 381; The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley I, 321, 538]

Sends photograph of the "Forbidden Fruit". The tree is rapidly becoming extinct [Lodiocea seychellarum]; message from C E Bewsher on Crustacea

Is sending fossil remains to Huxley for examination; collections Edinburgh and Dublin

Asks Huxley's advice as to filling the post at Greenwich [Royal Naval College] [cf Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley i, 389; T A Hirst was appointed on Huxley's recommendation]

Has seen Hirst and laid the proposal before him; his views. [See HIRST, T A, No 2]
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

The South Kensington site; is in favour of it and thinks there will be room for all the departments

Invites Huxley to lecture to the University Extension Students

Thanks for sympathy on the death of his wife

Invitation to Huxley and his wife to visit her new house

Invitation

Personal news

Invitation to Huxley and Mrs Huxley to meet the Crown Prince and Princess

Thanks Huxley for the encouragement afforded by his letter, qv Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley i, 144

Sends Huxley's letter for use in Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley; his appreciation of Huxley and his principles

Reminiscences of a former pupil; asks for information about fossil reptiles in connection with a book he is preparing; crayfish of Tasmania

Is preparing a pamphlet on Agnosticism, and asks for an exact definition of Huxley's views and their difference from those of Herbert Spencer

Further details of comparison between views of Huxley and Spencer

Thanks for subscription to the Social and Political League; urges Huxley to accept the presidency in spite of his former refusal

A breach of confidence by a press reporter, who published a private letter from Huxley at the annual meeting of the Social and Political League; the address by Leslie Stephen to be published

Thanks for presentation of papers

Proposal to Huxley to lecture in Boston; is about to visit England

Death of his sister Mrs MacGillivray [See HOOKER, J D, Nos 21,22]

Asks Huxley to call, as he has matters to discuss with him

Testimonial for Toronto candidature

Correction of "Let dogs delight", etc; solecisms in Church Catechism; Voysey's sermons

Castigation of Owen's scheme for the Natural History Museum [cf Life of Richard Owen ii, 36]

Observations and notes on Huxley's Physiography

Report on favourable progress in the illness of the Master of Balliol [Jowett]

Death of [Geraldine Endsor] Jewsbury; funeral at Brompton Cemetery

Plans for his work on British Barrows [published in collaboration with G Rolleston in 1877; cf Anthropological Review v, 253]

Draft notes of Huxley's reply
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Will modify his plan, and send all the skulls to Huxley to select those which merit illustration

Huxley's son-in-law's appointment [See GALTON, D, No 2]

The Home Rule question; hostile American Influence, and a scheme to counteract it; asks Huxley to contribute a statement for publication in United States

Is much opposed to Home Rule, but has kept out of political controversy all his life and cannot do as proposed; long explanation of his attitude
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Thanks Huxley for his "strong and vigorous letter", which he has shown to Lords Hartington and Goschen; would like to publish it, if Huxley approves

Asks Huxley to join Liberal Committee for opposing Home Rule

Lord Hartington's speech and its favourable reception by both parties

Has submitted to Prince Consort Huxley's letter and copy of his memorial to the Chancellor of the Exchequer

Sends paper read at Society of Arts on Women's Education and desires Huxley's support

Sends programme of proposed National Society for Improvement of Women's Education and desires Huxley's name to be added to the Committee

Sends his lecture on Man and Apes embodying Huxley's views; opposition by the "pulpiteers"

Thanks Huxley for his lecture The Study of Zoology; thinks that Physical Science should be an integral part of primary education

Thanks Huxley for his Anniversary Address to Geological Society

Invitation to dinner

Observations on the origin of the "Swine Myth" discussed in Nineteenth Century [The Collected Essays of Thomas Henry Huxley v, 209]

On mind and matter; comments on Huxley's paper on Sensation [Nineteenth Century April 1879; The Collected Essays of Thomas Henry Huxley] and on discussions in Open Court

Can spare specimens of most of the genera [of Batrachians, etc] asked for by Huxley; encloses list and asks Huxley to mark his requirements [List of genera written on the back by Huxley]

Trustees have sanctioned an exchange of specimens, so Huxley can now keep those sent to him on loan [cf Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley i, 416]

High appreciation of Huxley's Nineteenth Century articles by a broad-minded clergyman

Announces grant from Royal Society to relieve her anxiety [Professor Guthrie died in 1886] [Typewritten copy]

Thanks Huxley for all his efforts in her behalf

A joking letter, declining to join another society
Draft or copy letter by Huxley, a copy from the original in the possession of Dr Brinkworth