Hopes to call on his return from Greece and Egypt; mountain-climbing

Regrets unable to come to her daughter's marriage

Long and chatty letter from an old shipmate of the Rattlesnake [He left the ship at Sydney and returned on a merchant ship] [T H Huxley's Diary of the Voyage of HMS Rattlesnake 62, 76, 258]

Thanks Huxley for reading and commenting upon his essay; the struggle for existence and the problem of pain [Reply to Huxley's letter, Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley ii, 281]

Makes appointment

Arrangements for publishing her son's book

Thanks for letter of sympathy; is preparing a course of lectures

Thanks for gift of book [Lectures on Comparative Anatomy]; thanks Huxley for signing his certificate at Royal Society; has had a paper read there

Thanks for his support in the Toronto candidature
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Sends extract from a letter of a friend at Toronto showing Huxley's chances of success are very small

Thanks Huxley for the steps he has taken on behalf of the professors [re conjoint examiners; cf DONNELLY, Nos 38-47]

A self-educated Lancashire man now editor of Malvern Advertiser; encloses two of his articles on education

Regrets that she cannot produce any letters from Huxley as she destroyed all her husband's correspondence

His views on Affinity and Analogy, and those of Swainson, Owen and Milne Edwards

Invitation

Sends drawings and introductions to Herschel and Owen; asks Huxley to put him in touch with anyone met in his travels willing to exchange seeds

Marine zoology

Efforts to get his papers published; his present scientific work; vacancy in British Museum; Owen and Gray; unpopularity of Owen; estimate of his powers; Edward Forbes, a "leader in zoological science" [Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley i, 91]
Original letter, signed, by Huxley

Sends letter and questionary from the Board of Trade on the Natural History of the Herring to be answered by Huxley

Leave of absence has been granted by Lords of the Committee to Huxley to enable him to take the duties of Wyville Thompson at Edinburgh

The Science Primers; Geikie engaged to write that on Geology

Geikie should submit a scheme of his proposed primer; as to whether Geology and Physical Geography should be combined or issued separately

Pleased to hear of Huxley's better health; family news

Extract from letter of Lady Barker on Waller, her illustrator

Sends poems by a daughter of William Hopkins

Physiography out of stock and reprinting; a new and cheaper edition; author's royalties

Has sent interleaved copy of Physiography for revision before reprinting

Payment on account of Science Primers

Has sent American Addresses to Chenery [editor of The Times]; over 19,000 copies of Introductory Science Primer have been sold

Permission to reprint essays from Controverted Questions; of 3,000 copies of Romanes Lecture printed, 327 remain

Volume ix of The Collected Essays of Thomas Henry Huxley to be published at once

Unable to keep appointment; invitation

Sends particulars of a publishing scheme in which he is interested and asks Huxley if he will write a book to be so published

Has elected Huxley a Vice President of the International Congress of Anthropology to be held in New York in 1888; invitation to attend or contribute a paper

Encloses account of the strata at Waipara; is sending box of specimens; does not know if these are from the same formation as Owen's sauriaus; is about to begin geological explorations

Account of the Strata at Waipara signed by Henry Nelson, MD

Letter signed by W H Taylor, secretary to the Prince of Mantua and Montferrat's Committee, bestows a medal upon Huxley for his researches into Fossil Reptiles

Declines the honour
Draft or copy letter by Huxley
[Notwithstanding the declinature, the medal seems to have been sent, for Huxley has endorsed the letter thus: "On the production of satisfactory evidence that anyone having the right to call himself Prince of Mantua and Montferrat claims the medal, it shall be at once returned to him. Failing such I shall present it as a curiosity to some museum"]

An accident to one of the men employed by the Inspector of Fisheries

On the advice of J W Dawson sends paper for the Geological Society on some saurian remains found in the coal formation of Nova Scotia

Letter to Edward G Mason of Chicago introducing Leonard Huxley

Congratulations on Huxley's election as President of the Royal Society

References to Darwin in his Life and Letters of Robert Lowe, Viscount Sherbrooke, also W S Macleay

Will read the book; did not know of any criticism of the Origin of Species by Macleay
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

References to W S Macleay are frequent in his book

Wishes to insert a biography of Huxley in a collection of modern biographies compiled by him

Wishes to pay a visit to see Huxley before he leaves for Edinburgh

The Salvation Army; advocates prohibition of all religious processions

[To T Arnold]. All space in the next Fraser is occupied, but would like to have manuscript

[To T Arnold]. Thanks for gift of book; family news

Has been asked to forward letters from an American Unitarian minister of the Channing Centenary Memorial Church at Rhode Island

Asks Massey's advice as to whether he should resign from the Royal Commission [on Contagious Diseases] in view of the attitude of Sir John Pakington
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Asks for an article for [Macmillan's Magazine (of which he is editor)]

Asks for article

Invitation to meet Herbert Spencer, Lockyer, Sharpey, Graham and Perry

An ex-priest who has seceded from the Roman Catholic church being no longer able to subscribe to its doctrines; as a layman intends to go on the stage and wishes to raise a loan to start him in life again

Apologizes for delay in accepting Huxley's offer of tickets to his lectures for the members of the Working Men's College [See DYSTER, F D, No 3]

Enthusiastic letters from an ardent admirer

Lord Granville desires certain ethnographical and other information from the Colonies

A self-educated man and an ardent admirer of science desires to bequeath his body for dissection

Congratulates Huxley on his reply to Gladstone [Nineteenth Century, Feb 1886]; has published in April Fortnightly Review, the part of his article which was cut out in the January issue

Sends a lecture for Huxley's perusal and opinion

Sends a paper by Professor John Perry on calculation of the time of geological and biological evolution, his estimate being far higher than Lord Kelvin's

Acceptance of invitation

Remarkable case of polydactylism affecting several generations of a family [cf The Collected Essays of Thomas Henry Huxley ii, 37]

Gratification at Huxley's favourable opinion of his and Denny's joint-work [The Structure and Life-History of the Cockroach, London, 1886]

Asks for autograph

Sends letter for Sir R I Murchison; is working on his Gehirn der Selachier; wants Lord Clarendon's works; is going to the South Seas and wants introductions in Sydney, etc
Written in German

Sends letters for Dohrn and Nature; has travelled in Malay Peninsula
Written in German

Has been to Melbourne, Sydney and Hobart
Written in German

More or less approves of the proposed International Education Society; would be Vice President but cannot spare any time for it

Thinks the projected school will be a good thing, but cannot consistently associate himself with it if theology is part of the course; his views on theology in schools generally; considers modern languages and physical science of greatest importance

Adds his signature to the plan proposed for enabling Herbert Spencer to continue the publication of his works

Asks that he and his daughter, Helen Taylor, be enrolled as members in a new organization (not named) and sends donation
[The Metaphysical Society was founded by Knowles in 1869, but Mill was never a member of it. Some other association, therefore, is in question]

Introduces M Barrere, a candidate for the headship of the new International School to be established in France

Thanks for her father's autograph

Invitation

As Secretary of Artists Benevolent Institution requests Huxley to take the chair at the annual dinner [Endorsed by Huxley: "Ans'd accepting"]

Thanks Huxley for presiding; as £1,600 was raised, the committee are delighted with the result

Dr Cornay proposed a system of classification based on the form of the anterior palatal bone; has read Huxley's paper on classification of birds [Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1867, 415] but his own work on Avian Osteology is too far advanced to be modified; material communicated by Newton

Is sending Huxley a skeleton of the Hoazin [see Newton, Dictionary of Birds sv Hoactzin]; gives full permission to study and publish it; affinities of Gallinaceous Birds

Embryology of Hyrax capensis; importance of the placenta in the classification of mammals

Thanks for Crayfish; asks for the return of borrowed specimens

Thanks for paper on Acalephae [British Association Report, 1851, ii, 78; The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley i, 96]; discussion of anatomical details, with diagram; circulation of the blood in Mollusca [cf Annales des Sciences Naturelles xiv, 193]

Testimonial for Toronto candidature [Testimonials of Thomas H Huxley, FRS, Candidate for the Chair of Natural History at the University of Toronto 9]

Is informed that he is likely to be proposed as a Foreign Member of the Academy in competition with Darwin; if so, he would rather withdraw his name, and asks Milne-Edwards to act for him in the matter
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Entirely shares Huxley's view as to Darwin's eminence, and has several times voted for him in the Academy; opposition is strong, and the time is not opportune for provoking discussion of it again; does not entirely agree with Darwin's views, but recognizes his merit and would always vote for him

[From Lacaize-Duthiers]. The Academy has met to nominate candidates for Foreign Membership, and Huxley's name is pre-eminent; will vote for Darwin again but will not vote for Huxley understanding his wishes

Much appreciates his action and will leave the matter entirely in his hands
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Thanks for opinion and advice on his scheme for a book on the Theory of Life

Apologies for a delayed letter

An affaire de coeur

[A fragment containing the first words of a letter, and signature on the back]

Would like a paper from Huxley for the next Zoological Society meeting at which Owen has one on anatomy of Dendrolagus

Permission to make use of specimens in the Society's Museum

Sir William Harcourt acknowledges return of Lord Spencer's letter and will proceed with the appointment [See HARCOURT, Sir William, Nos 2-8]

Thanks Huxley for a kindly action (not specified) and accepts his offer

Expresses deep regret at statements made by him derogatory to George Darwin in a recent article

A letter of stern reproof and admonition
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Expresses further regret and apology

Congratulates Huxley on restoration to health and on his daughter's marriage

At Romanes's suggestion sends proof of an article, for Huxley's approval, on Darwin

Sends alterations and suggestions; Darwin's attitude to his critics and sympathizers
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Thanks for suggestions which he will adopt

Wishes to draw Huxley's attention to certain neglected historical facts

Enclosed letter from Editor [of Fortnightly Review] saying that his article has had to be shortened

Is glad that Huxley is interesting himself in politics

Greetings and family news

Sends two cuttings and a long exposition of his views on Political Economy

Further exposition, enclosing copy of an extract from one of his books

Asks for information as to the course of instruction in Montford's school
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Has decided to remove his son Harry from the school
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Encloses cheque in payment of fees; is not satisfied with his son's progress
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Researches into Protoplasm

Being engaged on articles on the Labour question, will call on Huxley to hear his views

Thanks Huxley for interview and explanation of his views which he wishes to publish and asks permission to do so

Refusal; will have nothing to do with interviewing
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

On Sea-serpents

An emancipated and self-educated Negro approves Huxley's views [cf Reader, 20 May 1865]

Sends specimens of Peripatus capensis; observations on its habitats and habits

Wishes to interest men of science in his Siberian mining scheme

Invitation and appointment

Regrets that he rejected Reade's article before receiving Huxley's note

Suggests a verbal alteration in Huxley's definition of Positivism

The fallacy that every scientific person is a Comtist

Congreave to criticize Huxley in the next Fortnightly Review; hopes Huxley will write a rejoinder

Permission to reprint the Physical Basis of Life and Scientific Aspects of Positivism after two months

Sends cheque from proprietors of Fortnightly Review, Huxley's articles having increased the sales

Harrison is not aggrieved, but thinks the tone of Congreave's reply a mistake

Regrets Huxley has not time to write on the Autobiography [of John Stuart Mill]; Mill frequently mentions his father but never his mother

Information about inn, etc, in Surrey

Invitation

Sends cheque and thanks for contributions to Fortnightly Review [Huxley's reply, Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley i, 424]

Encloses a letter from the editor of a Russian scientific journal, who, hearing a report of Huxley's death, published an obituary notice and afterwards discovered his mistake

Dissuades Huxley from publishing an article on a controversial subject which would give great offence in many quarters and involve him in controversy and misrepresentation

Acceptance of invitation

Declines invitation

Declines invitation

Declines invitation

Unable to accept invitation; has been to Oxford and seen Jowett; he and Knowles both want Huxley's articles

Huxley's advice to avoid social distractions; he and Knowles good friends, but both want articles

Acceptance of invitation; German School-systems

Eulogy of Huxley's Physiography; wants introduction to Spottiswoode [Huxley's reply, Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley i, 477]

Time of appointment

Huxley can give direct instructions to the printers

Acceptance of invitation

Proposal of the series English Men of Letters; asks Huxley for Hume; names other works in the series and their authors [Huxley's reply, Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley i, 495]

Has discussed copyright with Craik [of Macmillan & Co]; Clifford's health; would contribute anonymously to a fund to send him on a voyage

His work on Diderot [Reply to Huxley's letter of 6 July, Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley i, 496]

Asks about progress of the book on Hume [Huxley's reply, Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley i, 496]

The manuscript of Hume can be set up in type at once; is pleased to hear of its completion

Eulogy of Hume; editions of his works [Huxley's reply, Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley i, 497]

Accepts invitation; has no comment to make on Hume which is all he can desire [Reply to Huxley's letter of 5 November, Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley i, 498]

Unable to accept invitation

Hume is selling well

Hume is being reprinted; a correction to be made in it; 4,400 copies sold so far; the Sunday Lecture Society; doubts of success of a Review published under its auspices

Is glad to hear that Huxley has dissociated himself from the movement [to support Frere in the Zulu War controversy]; is returning to London

Accepts invitation

Invitation

Unable to accept invitation

Returns manuscript sent by Huxley on behalf of a friend (not named) as unsuitable for publication

Asks Huxley to undertake another volume in English Men of Letters series; suggests Bacon or Berkeley; 10,000 copies of Hume sold; [endorsed by Huxley: "provisional promise - not possible to begin before 1882"]

Thanks for promise of another biography; Huxley's Birmingham address ['Science and Culture', The Collected Essays of Thomas Henry Huxley iii, 134]

His wife's illness; unable to accept invitation

Accepts invitation

Asks when the manuscript of Berkeley is likely to be ready

Hopes he may have manuscript in the autumn

Invitation

Unable to accept invitation

Accepts invitation

Is remodelling Macmillan's Magazine and asks for Huxley's help

The "mire" of politics; would like his Eton address for the May Macmillan and the Rede Lecture for July [cf Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley ii, 57]

Unable to accept invitation; congratulations on Huxley's election as President of the Royal Society

Asks Huxley to associate his name with a Sunday Lecture Society of which Carpenter is President [Huxley's reply, Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley, ii, 62]

Unable to accept invitation

Asks advice as to taking a house at Eastbourne

Declines Huxley's hospitality at Easbourne

Supports F Darwin's candidature for the Athenaeum

Thanks for his advice

Asks where answers to his objections to Darwin's theory can be found

His objections will be answered by five or six years serious study of physical and biological science, followed by reading the Origin with as much care as the Bible
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Sarcastic reply to Huxley's advice, and condemnation of Darwin's views and their supporters

The Lord Rectorship of Edinburgh University soon becoming vacant, the Independent Association of the University desire Huxley to become a candidate to break the precendent of political selection and represent science

Appreciates the honour, but unable to entertain it for reasons of health

Is sending a box of photographs collected on the Challenger expedition

A passage of the Report of the Marine Biological Association which was considered inexpedient having been deleted by the Council, the Secretary, Lankester, has given the substance of it in a letter to The Times; asks Moseley as chairman to take such action as he thinks proper to censure the Secretary
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Has heard that Huxley is a personal friend of Foote, who was imprisoned for blasphemy

Knows nothing of Foote beyond what is in the newspapers
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Corrects an inaccuracy in the Preface of Science and Christian Tradition

Asks Huxley to arbitrate between the editorial committee of International Journal of Ethics, and M J Farrelly [qv], a contributor who claims a fee

Agrees to arbitrate, both parties to send in a signed statement of claim
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Thanks Huxley on behalf of editorial committee for his award, which is satisfactory to them

Asks Huxley to support the candidature of Professor McCoy at Royal Society; has written also to Hooker, Lubbock, Stokes and Carruthers [McCoy was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society 3 June 1880]

Thanks Huxley for his article on Ethnology in Fortnightly Review; hopes that Sir Cresswell Cresswell will grant a divorce to Ethnology and Phonology which should never have been joined together
[Sir Cresswell Cresswell was a Divorce Court Judge, hence the metaphor]

Is glad Huxley has intervened to stop the disputes between the Ethnological and Anthropological Societies; his work in Indian texts

Thanks Huxley for Critiques and Addresses; is studying Darwinism

Indian languages

His and Huxley's opinion of Descartes

Gladstone's attack on Reider; his ignorance of science
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Gladstone a good politician and statesman but a bad reasoner when science and theology are in conflict

Historical philosophy and evolutionary science

Thanks Huxley for his works on Salpa and Pyrosoma; cement-tubes and their homologies
Written in German

Testimonial
Written in German

Thanks Huxley for letter and advice in the study of marine organisms; Carpenter has lent him Van Beneden's works

Urges that Government should recognize Roscoe's eminent services to science [Henry Enfield Roscoe, FRS, was knighted in 1884]
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

[To Donnelly]. Urges that Huxley be immediately granted leave on account of his health

Sends decision of the Treasury as to Huxley's pension

[To Hibbert]. Asks position of Huxley's pension and urges him to get Treasury to settle it immediately [Endorsed by Hibbert: "£1200 granted - letters going forward at once"]

Huxley's thanks and appreciation [Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley ii, 107]
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Detailed statement of objects to be kept in view in organizing the new Fishery Department of the Board of Trade
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Thanks for Huxley's statement and will act on it throughout; Lankester seeking the direction and constantly writing to the press, and wants to send a deputation from the Marine Biological Association [See LANKESTER, E R, No 25]

Regrets trouble caused by Lankester; enclosed Lankester's letter and his reply

Sends papers (not specified) for Huxley's perusal

Thanks Huxley for his letter and a book (not named); Wallace's Natural Selection; Huxley's The Collected Essays of Thomas Henry Huxley

Details of a plan for cataloguing the Palaeontological Collections in the Jermyn Street Museum
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Has no objection to Huxley residing at Arran for three months to carry out dredging and scientific work; care of the Museum in his absence; Huxley's work at Tenby; conditions at Arran [cf CARPENTER, W B, No 12; Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley i, 150]

Huxley's election to the Athenaeum [Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley i, 150]

Asks Huxley to be cautious in referring to his (Murchison's) dealings with Owen at the British Association at Leeds in the matter of the Elgin fossils

His political views; dislikes party strife; his suggested candidature as MP for London University; might consider it, but feels too old; proposal to elect him a member of the French Institute has failed for Ehrenberg has been selected; long postscript on the political question [cf Life of Sir Roderick I Murchison ii, 281]

Sir Culling Eardley wishes to send Etheridge [one of the Museum staff] on a mission to Syria and has obtained ministerial support for his plan; asks Huxley to write an official letter to say that Eardley cannot be spared from the Museum

Official letter stating in detail the reasons why Etheridge cannot be released for the proposed expedition
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Sends pamphlet of Ehrenberg, and a proposed paragraph for his address to the Geological Section of the British Association at Manchester [cf Life of Sir Roderick I Murchison ii, 314]

Misconduct by one of the staff; Brodie suggested that he (Murchison) should be Treasurer of Royal Society, but he thinks himself quite unfitted for that office

Verbal alterations [in a Report?]

A breach of discipline by Salter; either he or Huxley must resign office
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Requests that representations be made to the Lords of the Council on Education to remove Salter from his office; the duties and organization of the department
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Purchase for the Museum of fossils from Robert Dick, the "scientific baker of Caithness"

Proposed amalgamation of Anthropological and Ethnological Societies; Crawfurd has asked him to become his successor as president, but he declines on account of age; the union would alter the sections of the British Association

The reptile beds at Elgin and the alterations which Huxley's discovery makes to his conclusions

Sends letter and specimens from [Alfred] Brown; directs that books should be sent to him
[On the relations of Brown with Murchison and Huxley, see M R Drennan, Gogga Brown, Cape Town, ND, Chapter v]

Unable to attend Council of Geological Society

Wishes to find temporary accommodation for a meeting of the Royal Geographical Society (of which he is President) and suggests the theatre at Jermyn Street

If meetings of Royal Geographical Society interfere with lecture arrangements, will try to hold them at the Royal Institution

Sends letters in support of Rev H M Hart and F W Smith [letter missing] as candidates for the vacant lectureship in Physics at the Royal School of Mines; thinks the latter likely to suit

[From Dr William Carr to Murchison]. Recommends Rev H M Hart, MA of Trinity College Dublin for the vacancy [Enclosed in no 03179]

Sends official letter written to [G H] Kinahan and private letter to Jukes for Huxley's approval or correction

Wishes to consult Huxley "on a point of interest to himself" (not specified)

Thanks for Huxley's sympathy on the death of Lady Murchison; unable to attend Anniversary meetings of Geological Society; "my battle of life is nearly fought out" [cf Life of Sir Roderick I Murchison ii, 331]

Sends Huxley a violent and unfriendly letter from Professor Sedgwick in which he revives an old controversy with Murchison

Understands from Darwin that Murray is investigating the parasitic fungi of fishes, and as he (Huxley) is investigating salmon disease, he might be useful to him
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Sends letters from Pelseneer [on Spirula] [Huxley's letters to Pelseneer, Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley ii, 361, 362]

If Pelseneer is satisfied with the arrangements made, he (Huxley) is quite content [Memoir on Spirula by Pelseneer and Huxley in Summary - Volume i of Challenger Report, 1895]
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Huxley's letter to The Times [19 February 1887] on the Imperial Institute shows that he has been misinformed as regards the Chamber of Commerce

Accepts invitation

Introduction of her son-in-law to a scientific club

Experiments in "automatic writing"