Pen-and-ink copy by Huxley of "The Smoker" by Ostade. Signed "T H H fecit. August 26, 1839". This copy must have been made from an etching or engraving

Charing Cross Hospital. Instructions for Scholarship Candidates

Various humorous sketches by Huxley in pen or pencil. One is dated 23 April 1842 and another 14 March 1848

Account-book (made from vertically-folded sheets of octavo writing-paper), and some rough memoranda, with the note "Joined Ship 2nd Oct 1846"

Bills for lodging, board and attendance

Bill for naval uniform and equipment supplied by G & W H Gillott, London

Photograph of a sketch made by Huxley in 1847 when at Port Stephens, with note thereon

Bill for a gold and silver snuff-box supplied by J J Cohen & Son, Sydney, Australia

Testimonials for Huxley's Toronto candidature. Signed and certified by Richard Taylor
Printed

Admission ticket to the Gardens and Museum of the Zoological Society, 1850-1. Engraved card, signed by D W Mitchell, Secretary

Draft of Huxley's speech in reply to the President of the Royal Society [Lord Rosse] on the award of the Royal Medal

Memoranda

List of places visited in Devon and Cornwall [Probably September 1856]

Statement of qualifications for Examinership in Physiology, London University
Printed

Reminiscences of early married life, written by Mrs Huxley in her old age [Follows the narrative in section XII, 13, folios 1 - 5]

Scheme and Rules for the "Thorough Club", established by Huxley "for the promotion of a thorough and earnest search after Scientific Truth" [1862; dated by note in section XII, 12, folio 10]

Invitation card for a dinner of the Thorough Club, at Cambridge
Printed

List of Huxley's works, headed "List for selection sent to Balliere, Feb 1891" [? For French editions]

Drawing of an ape-man, artist unknown. Dated Athenaeum Club

List of toasts at Geological Society Anniversary Dinner

Menu-card of dinner at the Garrick Club, with signatures of the guests (including Huxley)

Geological Society of Australasia (Melbourne). Honorary Member. Letter signed by Honorary Secretary, Robert T Litton

[In Appendix IV to Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley is given a list of the Honours, Degrees, Societies, etc, of Huxley, compiled from letters and diplomas found amongst his papers. Many of the diplomas are now missing from the Huxley Collection, which now contains only this item and the following 35 items. All the documents are written on paper, except where otherwise specified. The list is arranged in order of date]

Humorous memorandum by Mrs Huxley

Diary notes of visits to Huxley's house

List of persons to whom presentation copies of Hume were sent

Sketch of a youth in Highland costume, marked E G H. On the back, list of guests for a family party

List of Books [bought in Italy]

A variant of the "Missionary and Cassowary" rhyme [cf 12.143; 26, 189; Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley ii, 535]

Memorandum to Paymaster-General on claim for pension

Record of garden expenses and lists of plants to the end of 1892

Copy of 04713, with addenda dated 28 January 1893 and 4 September 1894

List of French and German translations of Huxley's works, writer unknown
German handwriting

"Pictures of Australian Life, 1843-1844" by Mrs Huxley [Cornhill Magazine 1911, 770-778]

Humorous drawings, artists unknown

Envelopes and fragments

"Thoughts and Doings". Extracts from Huxley's notebooks
Typewritten

Board of Admiralty Commission as Additional Assistant Surgeon, HMS Fisgard. Signed by Admiral Sir Houston Stewart. Embossed Seal of Lord High Admiral. Paper backed with linen. 24 x 34.5 cm

[In Appendix IV to Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley is given a list of the Honours, Degrees, Societies, etc, of Huxley, compiled from letters and diplomas found amongst his papers. Many of the diplomas are now missing from the Huxley Collection, which now contains only this item and the following 35 items. All the documents are written on paper, except where otherwise specified. The list is arranged in order of date]

Appointment for three years as Fullerian Professor, Royal Institution. Signed by William Pole, Vice President and Treasurer, and thirteen other managers. Engrossed on vellum. 57.5 x 31.5 cm

[In Appendix IV to Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley is given a list of the Honours, Degrees, Societies, etc, of Huxley, compiled from letters and diplomas found amongst his papers. Many of the diplomas are now missing from the Huxley Collection, which now contains only this item and the following 35 items. All the documents are written on paper, except where otherwise specified. The list is arranged in order of date]

Der Verein fur Mikroskopie in Giessen. Honorary Member. Signed by Dr H Welcker, President. No Seal. Printed. 41.5 x 32 cm

[In Appendix IV to Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley is given a list of the Honours, Degrees, Societies, etc, of Huxley, compiled from letters and diplomas found amongst his papers. Many of the diplomas are now missing from the Huxley Collection, which now contains only this item and the following 35 items. All the documents are written on paper, except where otherwise specified. The list is arranged in order of date]

Caesarea Leopoldino-Carolina Academia Naturae Curiosorum (Breslau). Honorary Member. Embossed seal. Printed. 42.5 x 53.5 cm

[In Appendix IV to Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley is given a list of the Honours, Degrees, Societies, etc, of Huxley, compiled from letters and diplomas found amongst his papers. Many of the diplomas are now missing from the Huxley Collection, which now contains only this item and the following 35 items. All the documents are written on paper, except where otherwise specified. The list is arranged in order of date]

Two duplicates of no 04723, without seals

[In Appendix IV to Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley is given a list of the Honours, Degrees, Societies, etc, of Huxley, compiled from letters and diplomas found amongst his papers. Many of the diplomas are now missing from the Huxley Collection, which now contains only this item and the following 35 items. All the documents are written on paper, except where otherwise specified. The list is arranged in order of date]

Letter enclosing the diploma [no 04723], signed by the President, Dr C G D Nees von Esenbeck

[In Appendix IV to Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley is given a list of the Honours, Degrees, Societies, etc, of Huxley, compiled from letters and diplomas found amongst his papers. Many of the diplomas are now missing from the Huxley Collection, which now contains only this item and the following 35 items. All the documents are written on paper, except where otherwise specified. The list is arranged in order of date]

Academy of Sciences of Philadelphia. Corresponding Member. Signed by John L Le Conte, Secretary. Printed. 22 x 27.5 cm

[In Appendix IV to Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley is given a list of the Honours, Degrees, Societies, etc, of Huxley, compiled from letters and diplomas found amongst his papers. Many of the diplomas are now missing from the Huxley Collection, which now contains only this item and the following 35 items. All the documents are written on paper, except where otherwise specified. The list is arranged in order of date]

Medicinisch-naturwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft zu Jena. Foreign Member. Wax seal; written throughout and signed by Ernst Haeckel. 22 x 28 cm

[In Appendix IV to Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley is given a list of the Honours, Degrees, Societies, etc, of Huxley, compiled from letters and diplomas found amongst his papers. Many of the diplomas are now missing from the Huxley Collection, which now contains only this item and the following 35 items. All the documents are written on paper, except where otherwise specified. The list is arranged in order of date]

Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool. Honorary Member. Signed by J Birkbeck Nevins, President, and James Birchall, Secretary. Engraved. 25.5 x 32 cm

[In Appendix IV to Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley is given a list of the Honours, Degrees, Societies, etc, of Huxley, compiled from letters and diplomas found amongst his papers. Many of the diplomas are now missing from the Huxley Collection, which now contains only this item and the following 35 items. All the documents are written on paper, except where otherwise specified. The list is arranged in order of date]

Petition to Huxley as President of British Association from the Liverpool United Trades Council to deliver a lecture. Signed by President, Secretary, and representatives of 26 trades. Engrossed. 24.5 x 38.5 cm

[In Appendix IV to Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley is given a list of the Honours, Degrees, Societies, etc, of Huxley, compiled from letters and diplomas found amongst his papers. Many of the diplomas are now missing from the Huxley Collection, which now contains only this item and the following 35 items. All the documents are written on paper, except where otherwise specified. The list is arranged in order of date]

Undated Petition to Huxley as President of British Association, signed by ten working men of Liverpool to deliver a lecture to the operatives of the city. Engrossed. 21 x 33.5 cm

[In Appendix IV to Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley is given a list of the Honours, Degrees, Societies, etc, of Huxley, compiled from letters and diplomas found amongst his papers. Many of the diplomas are now missing from the Huxley Collection, which now contains only this item and the following 35 items. All the documents are written on paper, except where otherwise specified. The list is arranged in order of date]

Brevet of the Order of the North Star. Stockholm. Embossed seal. 22 x 36.5 cm

[In Appendix IV to Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley is given a list of the Honours, Degrees, Societies, etc, of Huxley, compiled from letters and diplomas found amongst his papers. Many of the diplomas are now missing from the Huxley Collection, which now contains only this item and the following 35 items. All the documents are written on paper, except where otherwise specified. The list is arranged in order of date]

Letter from Count Steenbock (Secretary), dated from the Legation for Norway and Sweden in London, enclosing the Decoration and Brevet of the Order of the North Star

[In Appendix IV to Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley is given a list of the Honours, Degrees, Societies, etc, of Huxley, compiled from letters and diplomas found amongst his papers. Many of the diplomas are now missing from the Huxley Collection, which now contains only this item and the following 35 items. All the documents are written on paper, except where otherwise specified. The list is arranged in order of date]

Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences. Honorary Member. Signed by Leonard N Harvey, Secretary. Embossed seal. 14 x 21 cm

[In Appendix IV to Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley is given a list of the Honours, Degrees, Societies, etc, of Huxley, compiled from letters and diplomas found amongst his papers. Many of the diplomas are now missing from the Huxley Collection, which now contains only this item and the following 35 items. All the documents are written on paper, except where otherwise specified. The list is arranged in order of date]

Regia Scientiarum Academia Suecica, Stockholm. Foreign Member. Signed by Louis de Geer, President. Printed. 34 x 53.5 cm

[In Appendix IV to Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley is given a list of the Honours, Degrees, Societies, etc, of Huxley, compiled from letters and diplomas found amongst his papers. Many of the diplomas are now missing from the Huxley Collection, which now contains only this item and the following 35 items. All the documents are written on paper, except where otherwise specified. The list is arranged in order of date]

Letter enclosing Diploma. Signed by D G Lindhagen, Secretary

[In Appendix IV to Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley is given a list of the Honours, Degrees, Societies, etc, of Huxley, compiled from letters and diplomas found amongst his papers. Many of the diplomas are now missing from the Huxley Collection, which now contains only this item and the following 35 items. All the documents are written on paper, except where otherwise specified. The list is arranged in order of date]

Academie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique. Honorary Member. Signed by Director and Secretary. Impressed seal. Printed. 54.5 x 36.5 cm

[In Appendix IV to Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley is given a list of the Honours, Degrees, Societies, etc, of Huxley, compiled from letters and diplomas found amongst his papers. Many of the diplomas are now missing from the Huxley Collection, which now contains only this item and the following 35 items. All the documents are written on paper, except where otherwise specified. The list is arranged in order of date]

Letter announcing election of Huxley to honour in no 04736

[In Appendix IV to Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley is given a list of the Honours, Degrees, Societies, etc, of Huxley, compiled from letters and diplomas found amongst his papers. Many of the diplomas are now missing from the Huxley Collection, which now contains only this item and the following 35 items. All the documents are written on paper, except where otherwise specified. The list is arranged in order of date]

Letter enclosing diploma (no 04736)

[In Appendix IV to Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley is given a list of the Honours, Degrees, Societies, etc, of Huxley, compiled from letters and diplomas found amongst his papers. Many of the diplomas are now missing from the Huxley Collection, which now contains only this item and the following 35 items. All the documents are written on paper, except where otherwise specified. The list is arranged in order of date]

Academie Royale des Sciences de Lisbonne [Lisbon]. Foreign Corresponding Member. Signed by Professor J M Lateno Coelho, Secretary. 20 x 33 cm

[In Appendix IV to Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley is given a list of the Honours, Degrees, Societies, etc, of Huxley, compiled from letters and diplomas found amongst his papers. Many of the diplomas are now missing from the Huxley Collection, which now contains only this item and the following 35 items. All the documents are written on paper, except where otherwise specified. The list is arranged in order of date]

Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire. Honorary Member. Undated diploma signed by A Hume, President, David Buxton, Secretary, and John G Jacob, Treasurer. Engraved. 46 x 39.5 cm [cf Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley i, 335]

[In Appendix IV to Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley is given a list of the Honours, Degrees, Societies, etc, of Huxley, compiled from letters and diplomas found amongst his papers. Many of the diplomas are now missing from the Huxley Collection, which now contains only this item and the following 35 items. All the documents are written on paper, except where otherwise specified. The list is arranged in order of date]

Royal Society of Edinburgh. Honorary Fellow. Signed by William Thomson, President, J H Balfour, Secretary. Embossed seal. Printed. 27 x 22 cm

[In Appendix IV to Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley is given a list of the Honours, Degrees, Societies, etc, of Huxley, compiled from letters and diplomas found amongst his papers. Many of the diplomas are now missing from the Huxley Collection, which now contains only this item and the following 35 items. All the documents are written on paper, except where otherwise specified. The list is arranged in order of date]

Societe Royale des Sciences Medicales et Naturelles de Bruxelles. Honorary Member. Letter signed by President and Secretary

[In Appendix IV to Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley is given a list of the Honours, Degrees, Societies, etc, of Huxley, compiled from letters and diplomas found amongst his papers. Many of the diplomas are now missing from the Huxley Collection, which now contains only this item and the following 35 items. All the documents are written on paper, except where otherwise specified. The list is arranged in order of date]

Diploma referred to in no 4742. Printed. 39.5 x 29 cm

[In Appendix IV to Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley is given a list of the Honours, Degrees, Societies, etc, of Huxley, compiled from letters and diplomas found amongst his papers. Many of the diplomas are now missing from the Huxley Collection, which now contains only this item and the following 35 items. All the documents are written on paper, except where otherwise specified. The list is arranged in order of date]

Trinity College, Dublin. Honorary LLD. Signed by five members of Senate. Impressed pendant seal. Vellum. Printed. 62.5 x 46.5 cm

[In Appendix IV to Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley is given a list of the Honours, Degrees, Societies, etc, of Huxley, compiled from letters and diplomas found amongst his papers. Many of the diplomas are now missing from the Huxley Collection, which now contains only this item and the following 35 items. All the documents are written on paper, except where otherwise specified. The list is arranged in order of date]

Academie Royale de Medicine de Belgique. Copy of diploma executed for King Leopold by Delcour, Minister of the Interior. Countersigned by Secretary of Academy. Stamped seal. 21 x 34 cm

[In Appendix IV to Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley is given a list of the Honours, Degrees, Societies, etc, of Huxley, compiled from letters and diplomas found amongst his papers. Many of the diplomas are now missing from the Huxley Collection, which now contains only this item and the following 35 items. All the documents are written on paper, except where otherwise specified. The list is arranged in order of date]

Appointment as Inspector of Fisheries. Signed by Sir William Harcourt. Red wax seal of Home Department. 20.5 x 32 cm

[In Appendix IV to Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley is given a list of the Honours, Degrees, Societies, etc, of Huxley, compiled from letters and diplomas found amongst his papers. Many of the diplomas are now missing from the Huxley Collection, which now contains only this item and the following 35 items. All the documents are written on paper, except where otherwise specified. The list is arranged in order of date]

Clarendon Historical Society (Edinburgh). Fellow. Signed by Edmund Goldsmid, Secretary. 18 x 11.5 cm

[In Appendix IV to Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley is given a list of the Honours, Degrees, Societies, etc, of Huxley, compiled from letters and diplomas found amongst his papers. Many of the diplomas are now missing from the Huxley Collection, which now contains only this item and the following 35 items. All the documents are written on paper, except where otherwise specified. The list is arranged in order of date]

Anthropological Society of Washington. Honorary Member. Signed by F A Seely, Secretary. Printed. 20.5 x 26.5

[In Appendix IV to Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley is given a list of the Honours, Degrees, Societies, etc, of Huxley, compiled from letters and diplomas found amongst his papers. Many of the diplomas are now missing from the Huxley Collection, which now contains only this item and the following 35 items. All the documents are written on paper, except where otherwise specified. The list is arranged in order of date]

Royale Instituto di Studi Superiori Practici e di Perfezionamento Sezione di Scienze Fisiche e Naturali (Florence). Honorary Member. Signed by President and twenty officials of the several departments. Engraved heading. 22 x 32.5 cm

[In Appendix IV to Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley is given a list of the Honours, Degrees, Societies, etc, of Huxley, compiled from letters and diplomas found amongst his papers. Many of the diplomas are now missing from the Huxley Collection, which now contains only this item and the following 35 items. All the documents are written on paper, except where otherwise specified. The list is arranged in order of date]

Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland. Honorary Member. Signed by Sir Charles Cameron, President, and 21 members of the Council. Engraved on vellum. Pendant wax seal in engraved oval silver box, the whole enclosed in a padded leather case. 55.5 x 42 cm

[In Appendix IV to Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley is given a list of the Honours, Degrees, Societies, etc, of Huxley, compiled from letters and diplomas found amongst his papers. Many of the diplomas are now missing from the Huxley Collection, which now contains only this item and the following 35 items. All the documents are written on paper, except where otherwise specified. The list is arranged in order of date]

Appointment as Privy Councillor. From the Court at Osborne. Impressed Privy Seal. Countersigned by Sir Charles Lennox Peel [Clerk of the Council]. Printed. 24.5 x 38.5 cm
Oath of Privy Councillor. Printed. 20 x 33 cm

[In Appendix IV to Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley is given a list of the Honours, Degrees, Societies, etc, of Huxley, compiled from letters and diplomas found amongst his papers. Many of the diplomas are now missing from the Huxley Collection, which now contains only this item and the following 35 items. All the documents are written on paper, except where otherwise specified. The list is arranged in order of date]

University of Melbourne. Resolution of Congratulation on being made Privy Councillor. Signed by G B Halford, Secretary. 19.5 x 32 cm

[In Appendix IV to Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley is given a list of the Honours, Degrees, Societies, etc, of Huxley, compiled from letters and diplomas found amongst his papers. Many of the diplomas are now missing from the Huxley Collection, which now contains only this item and the following 35 items. All the documents are written on paper, except where otherwise specified. The list is arranged in order of date]

Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. Letter from the Medal Committee recommending the award of the Hayden Geological Medal

[In Appendix IV to Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley is given a list of the Honours, Degrees, Societies, etc, of Huxley, compiled from letters and diplomas found amongst his papers. Many of the diplomas are now missing from the Huxley Collection, which now contains only this item and the following 35 items. All the documents are written on paper, except where otherwise specified. The list is arranged in order of date]

Letter of eulogy from the President awarding and enclosing the Hayden Medal (no 04754)

[In Appendix IV to Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley is given a list of the Honours, Degrees, Societies, etc, of Huxley, compiled from letters and diplomas found amongst his papers. Many of the diplomas are now missing from the Huxley Collection, which now contains only this item and the following 35 items. All the documents are written on paper, except where otherwise specified. The list is arranged in order of date]