The Nebular Hypothesis; Geological succession; Uniformitarianism

The skeleton found by Admiral Inglefield [qv]; objections to its being that of one of Franklin's party [See also RICHARDS, G H, Nos 1, 2]

Specific gravity of sea-water; experiments; Marcet's results [Philosophical Transactions, 109, 187]

Further experiments giving different results and tending to confirm Marcet

Scientific education and Huxley's lecture [A Liberal Education, The Collected Essays of Thomas Henry Huxley ii, 76]

Acceptance of invitation

A lost umbrella

Congratulations on marriage of her daughter [Jessie, married F W Waller]

Sympathy on illness of her daughter [Marian] who has diphtheria

A drawing by the 13-year-old child of Whitley Stokes

His illness; personal news; his lecture arrangements

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

[To Edward Forbes]. Eocene fossils; a dispute between Jukes and Sir Henry [de la Beche]; an earthquake shock; Robert Chambers on Glaciers

Regrets to hear of Huxley's ill-health; will be missed on the Fisheries Commission

Draft report of the Fisheries Commission; examination of Professor McIntosh and Cossar Ewart; political news

News; the Fisheries Report

Family news; is on a committee for Naval Education

Insomnia and failing health [Lord Dalhousie died the following year, aged 40]

Regrets he was unable to call and see his fossils when in Scotland
Original letter, signed, by Huxley - presented to the College by W O Stewart, Esq

His attitude to fossils; their utility to Comparative Anatomy; study of Palaeozoic fishes; comparative material in other museums; asks for loan of specimens
Original letter, signed, by Huxley - presented to the College by W O Stewart, Esq

Wants specimens of Coelacanthus; structure of the scales
Original letter, signed, by Huxley - presented to the College by W O Stewart, Esq

Acknowledges specimens; has found a Labyrinthodont amongst them
Original letter, signed, by Huxley - presented to the College by W O Stewart, Esq

Work on the fossils delayed by examinations; is about to publish the Labyrinthodont
Original letter, signed, by Huxley - presented to the College by W O Stewart, Esq

Has returned from Switzerland; is coming to Scotland on Fisheries Commission business
Original letter, signed, by Huxley - presented to the College by W O Stewart, Esq

Official work still delaying his study of the fossils, and asks for extended loan of them
Original letter, signed, by Huxley - presented to the College by W O Stewart, Esq

Is returning some of the fossils, but retaining certain specimens; list of them and discussion thereon
Original letter, signed, by Huxley - presented to the College by W O Stewart, Esq

Returning further fossils with regrets for long delay [Signature cut off]
Original letter, signed, by Huxley - presented to the College by W O Stewart, Esq

Family news

Returning all the remaining specimens with thanks for the long use of them
Original letter, signed, by Huxley - presented to the College by W O Stewart, Esq

Invitation

Has sent article on the Gorilla to Fortnightly Review; hopes to go on Polar Expedition; Agassiz's opposition to Darwinism

Has refused Polar offer; is on his way [to Africa] to collect for Swanzy

Concerning his evidence before the Commission [on Scientific Instruction]

Skulls very difficult to obtain; collecting ethnological information; will endeavour to secure skeleton of Pigmy Hippopotamus for Busk; favours the fusion of Anthropological and Ethnological Societies

Intends to call with letter of introduction

[To Edward Forbes]. Sales of Oken's books; unless there is something special, does not favour buying at sales; Jukes has replied [cf RAMSAY, A C, No 1]; specimens from Disco from Captain Beechey have arrived

Huxley has been elected to The Club; to attend the next dinner [See HEWETT, Sir P G, No 2]

Payment of contribution to the bankers of The Club

Regrets that during their visit to England she and her husband are fully engaged and cannot accept invitation

Huxley's article in Nineteenth Century (The Collected Essays of Thomas Henry Huxley v, 209); sends verses by Luke Daniel on Christians and Muslims

Thanks for Calendar of Science and Art Department, and for recent hospitality

Thanks for gift of 9 volumes of The Collected Essays of Thomas Henry Huxley; is publishing his Biologische Untersuchungen

Sends letters and printed article by Mr Stark, an Ohio lawyer

Huxley's memorandum to Home Office about Sea Fishes research by the Marine Biological Association is being used to support the opposition of the Scotch to associate themselves with the Marine Biological Association; Government having agreed to assist Marine Biological Association thinks there should be a member of the Fishery Board on its Council

Sir M W Ridley has read Huxley's reply and did not suppose Huxley was aiding the Scotch Board (to whom the Home Office sent Huxley's report) in their opposition to the Marine Biological Association

The skeleton brought by Admiral Inglefield [qv]; its condition and distinctive features

Is sending the skeleton to Huxley for examination; has no doubt it will be identified as that of one of Franklin's party [See also RAE, J, No 1 and section vi, 5, 6]

Sends article from Homiletic Review

Has sent a paper on the Medusae [The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley i, 9] for acceptance by Royal Society and asks for his support as a Fellow of the Society
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Will be unable to come to Ipswich [for British Association]; suggests that Association apply for Government grant for publication of Huxley's results

Fishes to be sent to him in London and will take them to Haslar

Prospects of the Toronto professorship

Encloses testimonial

Testimonial for Toronto candidature [Testimonials of Thomas H Huxley, FRS, Candidate for the Chair of Natural History at the University of Toronto 8]

Suggests that Huxley write an autobiographical article in the North American Review

Asks Huxley to write an article in the North American Review on Lord Salisbury's address to the British Association, or on the Miracles of Lourdes

A lost umbrella

Acceptance of invitation

Congratulations on marriage [of Marian Huxley]

Family news

Family news

Acceptance of invitation; family news

Thanks Huxley for obtaining for him permission [?to copy an object in the Museum]

Thanks Huxley for having obtained for him privileges at the Zoological Gardens

Presents proof engraving of one of his pictures

Warning as to his son's sketching on the ice

Thanks for Huxley's advice; will continue to paint "the impossible"

Reply to Huxley's letter on science training for his son [Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley ii, 318]

Thanks for copy of the Romanes Lecture; its drift misunderstood by The Times

Election to the Athenaeum; sends a letter of Huxley [for use in Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley]

Acknowledges letter; Huxley's literary powers

Family news

The Working Women's College

Appointment

Asks Huxley to inspect Kensington House and report on its adaptability for a Central College for Technical Education

Long report on the house and premises [See ROBINS, E C, No 1]
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Thanks for report on behalf of the Committee; hopes their object will be achieved

Congratulations on Huxley's election as President of the Royal Society; asks Huxley to attend meeting at University College to protest against the exclusion by the Council of two students

Mlle Darin, who knows English well, is suggested as a translator of Huxley's Comparative Anatomy of the Vertebrates, and asks for authorisation to publish a French edition
Written in French
[Mlle G Darin translated the Anatomy of the Invertebrated Animals in 1877, but apparently abandoned the projected translation of the Vertebrates

Mme Brunet is translating the Comparative Anatomy under his supervision; she has had discussions with the publisher Bailliere who published the French edition of Man's Place; they have enquired whether the illustration blocks can be used by them
Written in French

Is calling with the plans of the house proposed for the Central College [see ROBERTS, O, Nos 2-4]; estimates of cost of purchase and adaptation

Is grateful and flattered by Huxley's references to his L'Esprit revolutionnaire [See also WINGFIELD, F]

Receipt for payment for his portrait of Huxley

Has heard from Sebastian Evans [qv] that Huxley wants his portrait returned; asks for another sitting

Charges him with retaining the portrait long after the exhibition had been closed, and with painting and selling a replica without permission, and asks for explanation
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Severe reprimand
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Presents copy of his work on the Geology of Pennsylvania

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

Invitation to Mrs Huxley and Huxley to dinner in honour of Sir Arthur Hobhouse

Congratulates Huxley on being made a Privy Councillor

Bitterness of Owen's article [Edinburgh Review 1860, 525]; Evolution not irreconcilable with religious beliefs

Articulation of a crocodile specimen; developments in the cerebellum in mammals associated with auditory sense; methods of introducing animal life into newly-dug ponds

[This letter is unintelligible as it stands as it is chiefly concerned with a document formerly attached to it which has been torn off. It seems to relate to Rolleston's candidature for the Linacre Professorship at Oxford]

Owen's testimonial to Waller [Rolleston's rival candidate] inspired by hatred of Huxley

The result [ie Rolleston's appointment] largely due to Huxley's support; inferences from the stomach of an Armadillo by examination students

The British Association meeting at Oxford; the Quarterly article on Darwin; Dean Liddell's views

Proposals for university reform [An undated memorandum on Biological Examinations probably relates to this]

Sends two lectures by Goldwin Smith; queries on the muscles of the human hand

Proposes to engage quarters in Manchester [for the British Association meeting] for Davy, Lubbock, Huxley and himself; sends a paper [for Natural History Review]

Birth of a son; progress of his teaching

Owen's paper in Philosophical Transactions for 1857 retracts statements made in his Linnean Journal paper of the same year; disagrees with his views on the Placenta; thanks for casts of Engis and Neanderthal skulls [End missing]

Dissection of the muscles of the hand and foot in man and apes

Owen's controversy in the Athenaeum; is delighted with Man's Place; possible candidates for Hoffman's chair; a new statute for students in Physical Science; a petition to abolish religious tests at Oxford

The proposed amalgamation of the Anthropological and Ethnological Societies

Urges Huxley to dissociate himself from James Hunt, president of the Anthropological Society; has been lecturing at Newcastle; an anecdote of Owen

An article in the Reader on Science and Church Policy; his own views

A line of false Latin in the Reader; comments of the Dean of St Paul's and of Goldwin Smith [qv]

Cannot undertake to work for the Reader the views and principles of which differ so widely from his own

Same subject as 03485

Admits that he is the author of the article objected to by Rolleston; justifies it
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Death of Dr Davy; wants Huxley's opinion on some skulls he has excavated [cf Memoir of George Rolleston xlv]; the Oxford Botany Professorship

A paper for the Royal Society sent by Moseley from Honolulu; references to be inserted in it; his address to the Anthropological Institute

Arrangements for Leonard Huxley to stay in his house in Oxford; Zeuglodon and the Cetacea; Hume's History; visit of Virchow and Schliemann; notes and corrigenda for Comparative Anatomy of Vertebrata

Congratulates Huxley on his son's exhibition

Hears Huxley is to succeed Frank Buckland [as Inspector of Fisheries]; had already recommended Moseley

Statement on biological examinations

Photograph of Rolleston demonstrating to a group of students

Congratulates Huxley on being made a Privy Councillor

Reply to Huxley's letter in Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley ii, 381

Acknowledges letters

Sympathy for Huxley's daughter on the loss of her husband [cf Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley ii, 402]

Has sent letters for Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley; is printing one of them in her own book, Life and Letters of George John Romanes

Declines to join the Council of the Association of Liberal Thinkers [see CONWAY, M D] and states his reasons at length. [Huxley's reply, Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley ii, 3]

Explains his views more fully

Understands that Lankester will not be appointed to the Edinburgh chair, and if so considers the claims of Ewart superior to those of Nicholson; asks Huxley to use his influence with Lord Rosebery in Ewart's favour

On the death of his only son

References for a paper in Philosophical Transactions

Huxley's obituary notice of Darwin in Nature; wishes Huxley would also undertake the historical part of the notice [cf Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley ii, 38]

Proposals for union of South London Free Library and Working Men's College

Thanks Huxley for his notice of Darwin [Huxley's reply, Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley ii, 38]

A posthumous paper by Darwin to be read at Linnean Society; invites Huxley to take part in the discussion

Huxley's disappointment at Darwin's paper; explains that it was intended to form part of the Origin

In Schurmann's Ethical Purport of Darwinism quotations from Huxley's works are misinterpreted; the Duke of Argyll in Nineteenth Century [Huxley's reply, Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley ii, 188]

Thanks for references; the Duke of Argyll's attack; an anecdote of Sir Wyville Thomson

Sends a memorial for Huxley's signature; his election to the Athenaeum

Thanks for signing memorial [for the establishment of a biological laboratory]; the name "Biological Observatory" suggested

Sends his book [Darwin and after Darwin, I]; his lectureship founded, the first to be given by Gladstone; asks Huxley to deliver the second [Huxley's reply, Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley ii, 350]

Thanks Huxley for his consent; formal invitation will be made by Vice-Chancellor; if Gladstone is unable to give first lecture, asks Huxley to have his lecture ready to take its place [Huxley's reply, Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley ii, 350]

Plans for the publication of the Romanes Lectures

His work interrupted by eye trouble; asks for a physiologist to carry on his experimental work [Life and Letters of George John Romanes 296; Huxley's reply, Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley ii, 333]

Has been ordered to winter in Madeira; asks for information about the place [Life and Letters of George John Romanes 305; Huxley's reply, Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley ii, 334]

The first Romanes Lecture duly given by Gladstone; Lankester's illness [Huxley's reply, Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley ii, 350]

Lankester's recovery; sends a volume of verses of his own, printed privately; religion of one age becomes the poetry of the next [Huxley's reply, Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley ii, 339]

Health improving in Madeira; religion and philosophy; zoological observations

The lecture to be given in the Sheldonian Theatre; publishing arrangements [Life and Letters of George John Romanes 326]

Arrangements between Macmillan & Co and the University Press for publication of Romanes Lecture; prohibition of religion and politics [Huxley's reply, Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley ii, 353]

Is alarmed at the possibility of the religious prohibition in Huxley's lecture not being strictly observed [Huxley's reply reassures Romanes on this head, and encloses a proof of the lecture, Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley ii, 354]

Returns lecture and feels relieved; if Huxley's voice is likely to fail, the Public Orator will attend to read the lecture [Life and Letters of George John Romanes 327; Huxley's reply, Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley ii, 354]

Macmillan's offer as to publication accepted by the University Press

Sends particulars of a "movement" he has joined [missing]; account of Huxley's lecture in University Magazine

His portrait by Collier

Internal affairs of the Royal Society

His criticisms of Weismann and all other work stopped by ill-health [An Examination of Weismannism, 1893] [Life and Letters of George John Romanes 342; Huxley's reply, Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley ii, 368]

Premonition of death; his wife's devotion [Romanes died on the following 23 May. Life and Letters of George John Romanes]

Sends proofs of Chemistry Primer: his ideas as to the format and arrangement of the series

Encloses letter from one of his assistants on the defects of the present system of examinations, and his own views on same

[From H Marshall Watts to Roscoe, enclosed in No 03532]. Defects in the Science and Art Department examinations

Has discussed the Primers with Balfour Stewart, who is working on his own volume [Physics]; thinks there should be cross-references to the various volumes in the series; urges Huxley to have his Introductory primer ready, so that the first three can be properly co-ordinated

The Introductory primer to await Huxley's return, rather than issue it incomplete [cf Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley i, 381]

Publishers report good sales of the Primers; Huxley's Introductory urgently needed; suggestions as to its scope

The affair of the Council [of Owen's College]; the Introductory primer much wanted

The proposed "English Men of Science" series [cf Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley i, 499; Huxley's reply, ii, 500]

Regrets for Huxley's ill-health

The Manchester Conference [see ACLAND, A H D, No 1]; the President of the Royal Society and Politics

Huxley's retirement; Asa Gray's last speech

Science representatives on the Committee [of the Athenaeum]

Claims of Thorpe [Sir Edward, FRS] to election to Athenaeum

Congratulations on Huxley's being made a Privy Councillor

Desires photograph of Huxley

Thanks for book of poems

Encloses Agnostic Journal; their differences of opinion

Proposes to plan the Day-School of the South London Working Men's College under Government inspection in order to obtain grant; is giving up his salaried post and will act as Honorary Secretary

A misquotation of Landor in Huxley's article in Nineteenth Century, April 1887 [As reprinted in The Collected Essays of Thomas Henry Huxley v, 90, the quotation from London is omitted from the article]

Further information as to Landor's poems

Some points for criticism in Huxley's article (not specified)

Congratulates Huxley on being made a Privy Councillor

A deputation to Lord Rosebery [from London University]; wishes Huxley to speak

Gives order for admissions to Box [at Covent Garden]

Encloses order for Ducal Box at Covent Garden

Will obtain order for Ducal Box for the Pantomime if desired

Accepts invitation

Inaccurate observations in Natural History

Is editing Matthew Arnold's letters and asks for information to enable him to place certain undated ones

Accepts invitation
Original letter, signed, by Huxley

Unable to accept invitation as the date fixed is his birthday, which is always spent at home
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Wishes Huxley to have a bust executed by Boehm, and to persuade Darwin to give a sitting [See BOEHM, J E, Nos 1,2; Life and Letters of Charles Darwin iii, 371]

On sea-serpents

Declines to give testimonial, as he is unacquainted with the applicant or his work
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

On "the elements of cheerfulness"