Sends a press cutting containing a mis-statement, copied with increasing error from several newspapers in turn

Letters for Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley; collaborated with Huxley in his last scientific work, on Spirula
Written in French

A mistaken interpretation of two Hebrew words in the Pentateuch [The Collected Essays of Thomas Henry Huxley iv, 195]

Is not responsible for the translation of the Old Testament in the Revised Version; will consider if the point raised materially affects his statements

Has no influence at King's College, but sends testimonial

A series of cases of disease on board the Rattlesnake and the diverse manner in which it affected various individuals

Thanks Huxley for particulars of cases; believes that the first originated in a man with a suppurating wound

Appointment

A petition for Thomas Wharton Jones; suggests that Andrew Clark might speak to Gladstone on the matter

A scheme approved by the Committee [for University College, London]

Is writing biographical notice of Sir George Burrows; asks if it is true that Huxley's father taught him mathematics at Ealing

Regrets Huxley's resignation from University College Committee

Unable to accept invitation

Is pleased to hear from Foster that Huxley will attend the meeting [Owen Memorial Committee] and speak [cf Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley ii, 340]

Thanks for sympathy in his bereavement [Lydia, Lady Paget, died 7 January 1895]

His forthcoming lecture at South London College; uncertain whether to choose a literary or philosophical subject

Informs Huxley that a paper on the voyage of the Rattlesnake is about to be read at the Geographical Society, and introduces him to the Secretary [A letter from Captain O Stanley (who died in 1850) and a report by MacGillivray, naturalist to the expedition, was read before the Society 27 January 1851]

The date of St John's Gospel and the biblical criticism of Reuss

Did not make the statement attributed to him or promulgate the opinion that the 4th Gospel originated in the 4th century
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Anatomy of the frog (with diagrams)

Sends an anatomical paper; his biography of his father [William Kitchen Parker, FRS]

Condolence on the death of Huxley; his world-wide influence

Thanks Mrs Huxley for her account of Huxley's last days and for the gift of his compasses; the statue of Huxley

His work on the shoulder-girdle [Published by Ray Society, 1868]. [Reply to Huxley's letter, Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley i, 271]

The sternum of lizards; his paper on Baloeniceps

Structure of the clavicle

Thanks Huxley for his paper on classification of Birds [Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1887, 415]; wants Gegenbaur's paper on the human clavicle; birds' skulls

Has sent skeleton on Talegallus [cf Newton, Dictionary of Birds, 541]; suggest Huxley should write an article or review on his monograph [Ray Society]

Avian osteology

Work on the skull of the common fowl

Payment for bird skeletons; a good review of his monograph in Journal of Anatomy and Philosophy

Discussion of the stylo-hyal bone; an error by Peters

The stylo-hyal in the frog and toad, with diagram

The auditory oscicles in the mole and the toad

Structure of the mandibles in the Amphibia Urodela

Structure of the hyoid arch in the frog

On the death of his wife

The cost of woodcuts is deducted from the payment for reviews and in this case (not specified) it will almost absorb it

Offers to bear half the cost of the woodcuts

Two medical officers to be sent to Bengal to investigate cholera and its supposed connection with fungi

Has been appointed on Huxley's recommendation to carry out an investigation in Liverpool connected with public hygiene

Tenders his resignation as Professor of Biology in Normal School of Science
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Memorandum on claims to be considered in assessing his pension
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

[Draft or copy letter from Donnelly]. Points to be considered in Huxley's pension; the economies he effected for the Home Office Fisheries Department, and his services on Royal Commissions should be added

Cheyne's book has arrived [Probably Founders of Old Testament Criticism, 1894]

[To Edward Forbes]. Murchison considering himself insufficiently informed to write an obituary of Mantell; he requests Forbes to do it

Invitation to meet Allman

Asks for estimate of the number of persons likely to attend the Browning Society

In connection with Man's Place, quotes passage from Pepys's Diary, 23 August 1661

Sending volumes of International Science Series [Kegan Paul took over the firm of H S King, qv]

Acknowledges 7 volumes; was not aware that some of them had been accepted; asks for a statement as to his Crayfish in that series
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Enumeration of the seven works and the circumstances in which they were accepted for the series; sends sales account of Crayfish

Three volumes of the International Science Series to be published in Germany; asks Huxley the scientific reputation of the authors and whether the books should be included in the English series

As the reasons for which the editorship was undertaken for the late H S King no longer seems to exist, Huxley withdraws from the editorship
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Accepting resignation and returning thanks for past services

Encloses drawings of a local monkey and of its skull; discusses its homologies with the human skull; particulars of the country and natives; errors in Owen's contour of the Indian elephant [Letter and 7 sheets of drawings]
[Peel was a tea-planter who possessed a considerable knowledge of zoology and anatomy. He was a generous supporter of the Indian Museum, Calcutta. He sent some interesting communications on the natives to the Anthropological Institute (Journal iii, 476; xi, 52). He died at Sibsagar, 29 July 1897, aged 62]

Sends report of the second Geological Survey of Pennsylvania [J B Pearse was Secretary to the Survey Commissioners]

The editor of the Agnostic Annual having before used Huxley's name without authority as a bait for contributors, asks if on this occasion it is authorized

Sends letter from editor of Agnostic Annual, in which he says that "Professor Huxley and Mr Leslie Stephen. . . will probably contribute", an authorized statement

Sends letters from Huxley for use in Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley

The writer, a chemist's assistant, is a great admirer of Huxley's Hume and asks when the volume of Berkeley announced is likely to appear

Is studying the branchiae of the Lamellibranchiata; Huxley's opinion on the nucula having been claimed in the same year by von Ihering as its annunciation in the Anatomy of the Invertebrates (1877), asks whether Huxley had previously expressed the same opinion; asks for Huxley's memoir on Trigonia, [Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1889, 40] as Lankester has sent him specimens to study
Written in French

Asks for specimens of Trigonia; bases his phylogenetic classification of the Pelecypoda on the structure of the branchiae and his researches confirm the statements of the Anatomy of the Invertebrates of 1877; has received material from Lankester, Dohrn and others
Written in French

Thanks for specimens of Trigonia which have arrived in good condition; hopes to see Huxley complete his memoir on Spirula
Written in French

The direction of the whorls in Spirula; analogies in Palaeontology
Written in French

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

Asks Huxley to tell him how old stains can be removed from the pages of books

Acknowledges Huxley's letter of candidature for the Chair of Natural History at Aberdeen

Sends article for Nature for Huxley's approval on the Palaeontological side

Huxley elected an honorary member of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, Zoological Section; examination of the heart of a Pteropus with Flower at Royal College of Surgeons

Anatomy of the Chiroptera

A case of dual consciousness

Is about to return with her husband to America; calls for photographs of her and Huxley [E J Phelps was American Minister in London 1885-1889]

Thanks for photographs

Cannot find Huxley's paper or the abstract of it [British Association]

Saurian remains in the Oxford Museum

Asks Huxley to send a specimen [Dinosaur] to exhibit at his lecture at the Ashmolean

Huxley's paper on Dinosauria [Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of Londonxxvi, 32]; a toothed jaw from the Stonesfield; uncertain whether it be a fish (Lepidotus) or a Pterodactyle [No signature, but nothing lost]

Sparks overjoyed with the microscope

Sends his book, the Mystery of Matter; association with Huxley on School Board; modern tendencies of religious thought

[To F Max Muller]. His memoirs on the history of the horse in reference to a review of one of them by Muller in Academy [vii, 19, 56], which quotes a letter from Huxley
[This letter was evidently sent by Muller to Huxley whom he had consulted, and a letter from whom is incorporated in review]

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

Is an invalid; reads Lay Sermons; Americans confuse Huxley and Tyndall

A Royal Commission on Fisheries to be held; asks Huxley if he would consent to serve [cf Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley i, 234]

Present state of affairs as regards the Royal Commission

Huxley's report received; general report in preparation; herrings only gregarious at certain periods of the year

Encloses request for information by a Treasury official; Scottish press is favourable to the report, but the curers are raising opposition

In connection with Huxley's labours on the medical curriculum, cites John Knox, who recommends the preliminary scientific work before medicine, which is to occupy five years exclusively

Invitation to meet Sir A Grant and some of the Edinburgh professors

Lectures at Marlborough House

Chemistry teaching at Edinburgh under Hope, Graham and Gregory; no laboratory until he (Playfair) introduced it

A meeting to be held under presidency of Lord Mayor in favour of the Imperial Institute; the Prince of Wales desires Huxley to attend and speak

Prince of Wales desires thanks to be given in his name to Huxley for consenting to speak at Imperial Institute meeting

Spiritualism and miracles

Will try to find Huxley's letters for Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley; reminiscences of him

Is sending his edition of Ecclesiastes; Frederick Burton, a pupil; memorial verses to A P S[tanley]

Huxley's Royal Institution lecture [Macmillan's Magazine, 1876, The Collected Essays of Thomas Henry Huxley viii]; Law and Morality; analogies between Physical and Moral Sciences

A French sermon on the Resurrection

Congratulations on Leonard Huxley's scholarship

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

Advises publication of the second part of Huxley's essay on Balfour left unfinished at his death [See KNOWLES, J T, Nos 123-125]

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

The philosophical essays of Miss Naden
[Constance Caroline Woodhill Naden (1858-1889), poetess and philosophical writer. She was a disciple of Lewins]

Hours and dates of lectures

Government and popular representation [First page missing]

As Vice-Chancellor, invites Huxley to deliver the Rede Lecture

Fixes date of Rede Lecture; invites Huxley to be his guest

Has found Huxley's Physiology useful when lecturing on the mechanism of speech; criticisms on it

An article by Canon Driver in the Expositor

Asks Huxley to support his candidature, with Michael Foster, Sedgwick and others [for the Hope professorship]

[To Donnelly]. Has been to see Sparks, the Southampton docker [see DONNELLY, No 61 and Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley ii, 365]; a highly intellectual man in squalid surroundings

Further particulars of Sparks; he needs books and a microscope

Has seen Sparks again, who is eager for books on biology, believes him to be thoroughly genuine

Sends letter of gratitude from Sparks [see SPARKS, G, No 1]; will not disclose the name of his benefactor till authorized to do so

Has made the presentation to Sparks whose delight was unbounded [This letter begins "My dear Sir Thomas" to which Huxley jokingly replied to the "Lord Bishop of the Solent"; cf Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley ii, 367]

Sparks still using the microscope and studying but remains a docker; his home is now quite reformed

Asks for autograph

Council of Senate wish to propose Huxley for Honorary LLD

Thanks for proposal and places himself in the hands of the Senate [The degree was conferred 10 June 1879]
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Asks for a statement of views on advisability of dispensing with Greek as a subject for Honours Degrees

States his views, and considers Greek to be no more necessary than Hebrew
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

The teaching of Greek and Physical Science, for the BA degree
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Has read with interest Huxley's articles on Agnosticism in Nineteenth Century; his own early religious training; discussion on the validity of the Gospel narratives

Asks Huxley on behalf of the citizens of Springfield, to deliver a lecture on Evolution

Congratulates Huxley on election as President of the Royal Society

Has read with approval Huxley's Science and Christian Tradition [The Collected Essays of Thomas Henry Huxley v]; sends a pamphlet of his own

Contemplates a book on Moral Science with special reference to modesty and false shame, and seeks Huxley's support

Sends some of his papers bearing on the antiquity of man

Thanks for honour to be conferred on him [Honorary DCL, Oxford]; "it will be a sort of apotheosis coincident with my official death" [cf Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley ii, 110]

Unable to accept invitation; return of Archibald Forbes

Thanks for a service rendered (not specified)

Invitation to the opening of the Forth Bridge and to be his guest at Dalmeny

Asks for one of Huxley's books, inscribed [Reply to Huxley's letter, 28 May, Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley ii, 373]

Sends a book long out of print [Man's Place in Nature]; it brought great abuse upon the author for a decade, and now its doctrine is taught in the schools
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Thanks for same

Will receive the deputation [from London University] before Parliament meets [cf Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley ii, 393]

Sending specimens of herrings from Firths of Forth and Clyde, with questionnaire of points to be ascertained

Sending Loch Fyne herrings for examination

Condemnation of the educational system of the Public Schools

Asks for information on Butler's Analogy

Has sent one of his sermons; to him scientific speculations not proven; substance and transubstantiation

These letters are all addressed to Henry Prescott. The letters are very long and highly technical. The compiler of the published catalogue [Dawson] lacks the special knowledge of art and technique which is necessary to interpret and epitomize them. John Pye was a well-known landscape engraver and executed many plates for J M W Turner. Prescott, an etcher, was a friend of Huxley's, and he probably gave these letters to him
[For an interesting account of Pye's association with Turner, see "Notes and Memoranda respecting the Liber Studiorum of J M W Turner, RA, written and collected by the late John Pye". Edited by John Lewis Roget, London: John Van Voorst, 1879]

Dates: 6 March 1861; 16 March [1861]; 21 March 1861; 13 May 1861; 12 July 1861; 17 July 1861; 18 July 1861; 4 August 1861; 15 August 1861; 26 August 1861; 22 December 1861; 13 May 1862; 17 May 1861 (two letters); 28 August 1862

Proof etching with description of technique, etc, written above and below it