Series 21 - Drawings and photographs


Date Rangec. 1847 - c. 1882
Quantity8 Boxes
ProvenanceHuxley, Thomas Henry
Description

Six boxes of drawings and two of anthropological photographs

ArrangedRandom

Inventory Listing

PROTOZOA AND BOTANY drawings, 1870-82, 44 folios

1-9 Infusoria. 17 pencil drawings of sections of Paramecium aurelia, Colpoda
cysts, etc, October 1874 - November 1875. See also volume 6.2
10-13 Foraminifera. 5 pencil and watercolour drawings of Rotalina purpurata,
Spirolina agglutinans, Globigerina. The captions, in pencil, are not in Huxley's
handwriting. A 13.5 is endorsed 'Horace S Smith delt'
15-31 Yeast, Penicillium, Aspergillus (sic) and Torula. 33 pencil drawings of
experiments, etc, July - August 1870. Three drawings are on cartridge paper and the
rest on blue, squared paper. Two drawings are dated 1875. 15 folios. See The
Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley
volume 3, page 601, and also
Huxley Papers volume 37
32-45 Achyla, Empusa, Saprolegina (sic) and associated Fungi. 29 pencil
drawings, with notes, for investigation of the Salmon disease, December 1881 to
April 1882. See The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley volume IV,
page 540 onwards; drawing A 45.2 is reproduced in page 545

Creator Huxley, Thomas Henry
Control BOX A
Date range 1870 - 1882
Formats Drawings
Inventory Identifier BOX A Box Number A Series 21
COELENTERATA, BRACHIOSTOMATA, ECHINODERMATA, MOLLUSCA drawings, c 1847-82, 31 folios

This box contains a loose sheet of unnumbered paper, a note stating: 'Sheets B 78-91 Spirula series to Eastbourne. 192.4 GBH' and further notes on the return of some of these sheets by Professor Hewer and others

1-6 Hydrozoa. 7 drawings, pencil, and pencil and watercolour
B 2 Hydra viridis, July 1876
B 3.4 Drawings of Diphyes dispar, Abyla bassensis, used as illustrations to
'Oceanic hydrozoa'
B 5 Scyphozoan jellyfish. Watercolour. Endorsed: 'Maldive Islands' and 'Capt
Callow' [?]
B 5vo Seascape. Watercolour
B 5.2 Type of Physalia. Watercolour. Endorsed (not in Huxley's hand) 'No 1,
Common to all tropical seas in the neighbourhood Dondra Head Ceylon'
B 6 Enlargement of tentacle of B 5.2. Endorsed: 'Companion to No 1'
B 6vo Seascape with sailing ship. Watercolour

7-17 Brachiopoda. 13 drawings, pencil, and pencil and watercolour

B 8.1 Lingula, 25 November 1847
B 8.2 Lingula, dorsal view, 12 April 1854
B 9.11 Waldheimia flavescens, April 1854
B 12-17 Rhynchonella psittacea, 7 - 19 April 1854
See The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley volume 1, page 324
onwards

18-19 Polyzoa. One pencil drawing labelled 'Bryozoa, January 3, 1847'

20-21 Echinodermata. 2 drawings, pencil, and pencil and wash. One dated
[6 February?] 1876

22-25 Polyplacophora. 5 drawings, pencil, and pen and ink and wash

B 23.2 Chiton marmoratum, 15 November 1877
B 24.1 Chiton, 29 November 1880
B 24.2 Chiton, 30 November 1882

26-31 Prosobranchiata. 12 drawings, pencil and watercolour, and pen and ink
and watercolour, of Cypraea, Pteroceras, Haliotis. See also Rattlesnake
Journal
3, 1848-1849

B 28.2 Oliva, 23 April 1848
B 29.1 Patella, 25 March 1847
B 29.2 Patella vulgaris, 16 November 1877
B 30.1 *Pteroceras [August 1848]. See The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas
-3 Henry Huxley
volume 1, XVII, plate 20, figures 16, 17
B 31.1 Purpura lapillus, 19 January 1883
B 31.2 Sigaretus, 24 August 1848

*B 30.3 is reproduced in Medical and Biological Illustration volume VI, No 2,
page 73

32-36 Heteropoda. 7 pencil drawings of Atlanta, 'Firola', 1848-49

37-44 Pulmonata. 18 drawings, pencil, and one pen and ink and wash

B 38.1 Arion empirocorum, 3 November 1877
B 39.1 Helix from Port Molle [4 January 1847?]. See MacGillivray, volume 2,
pages 370, 377
B 40-42 Limax: details, December 1876, November 1878
B43.2 Onchidium, 5 July 1848
B 44 Veronicella [linneyana?], 8 November 1877

45-55 Opistobranchiata. 20 drawings, pencil, and pen and ink and watercolour,
some with notes

B 46.1, 2 Aplysia, July 1848
B 47-52 Aplysia Hybrida, October - November 1877
B 53 Bulloea, 18 February 1848
B 55 Umbrella mediterranea, 3 August 1880. See also volume 15.24

56-57 Nudibranchiata. 2 drawings in pencil Doris, 28 July 1848; Eolis coronata,
nd

58-63 Pteropoda. 8 pencil drawings, 1848-49, of Criseis

64-94 Cephalopoda. 43 drawings, 3 prints, 2 photographs. Drawings of Eledone
cirrhosa, Loligo media, Nautilus pompilius. Folios 87, 80, 84 and drawing B 89.1 are
missing

B 70-75 Diagrams of Sepia, with detailed notes, July-August 1880. See volume
15 for observations
B 83, 85, Drawing of Spirula peronii, some are used for the plates in Voyage of
91 HMS Challenger
, Appendix (Zoology) Part LXXIII, 1895. Report
on Spirula
B 79, 81, 82 Three plates from the Report. Printed
B 94.1, 2 Two sepia photographs. One is titled 'Sea monster'. Endorsed by
by Huxley 'Sent by the London Stereoscopic Company, July 15, 1879'.
See volume XVI 172

95-96 Scaphopoda. 2 drawings, pencil, and pen and ink and watercolour of
Dentalium, 1885. See also volume III 171

97-102 Incertae sedis (Mollusca). 7 pencil and watercolour drawings of develop-
ment of embryos. (B 102.2 appears to be missing; but see below) B 102.1 is dated
29 November 1876. See also volume 10

103-123 Lamellibranchiata. 35 drawings, pencil, and pen and ink and watercolour,
of Mya arenaria, Mytilus edulis, Avicula, 1879, 1882; Anomia ephippium, Cardium
edule, Ostraea edulis

B 113.1 Pinna, 26 November 1847

The cover (B 103) is endorsed: 'B 102 wrongly sorted, tr [?[ to D/72, 1897'

Creator Huxley, Thomas Henry
Control BOX B
Date range c. 1847 - c. 1882
Formats Diagrams, Mounted Photographic Prints and Drawings
Inventory Identifier BOX B Box Number B Series 21
VERMES AND ARTHROPODA WITH PERIPATUS drawings, c 1847-1882, 95 folios

1-3 Vermes. 5 pencil and ink drawings, with notes, of Thalassema, etc

C 1 Annelida, 12 July 1849

C 3.3 Endorsed 'Priapulus caudatus. Sketched taken from the living specimens at
Holywod, County Down. These Sipunculi were dug up by my son David
Clarke Patterson. RP' [Robert Patterson]

4, 5 Peripatus. One pencil, and one pen and ink sketch, dated 28 November
1882

6-17 Insecta. 64 detailed pencil drawings, and one quarto sheet of notes,
C 14.2, on the male organ of generation of Blatta. [One pencil drawing may be
missing]. The drawings include diagrams used to illustrate the chapter on 'Insecta'
in the 'Anatomy of invertebrated animals'

C 9 [Aphis pelargonii] See Anatomy of invertebrated animals, page 364;
The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley, volume 2, II, plate 4,
figure 5; Medical and Biological Illustration, volume 6, No 2, page 72

18, 19 Arachnoidea. 6 pencil drawings of Scorpio. See Anatomy of
invertebrated animals
, chapter VII

20-22 Xiphosura. 3 pencil drawings of Limuls moluccanus

23-25 Phyllopoda. 3 pencil drawings, and one watercolour, of Apus glacialis,
Nebalia

C 24 Apus (watercolour), see Medical Times and Gazette, Lecture XII,
figure I, 15 August 1851

26, 27 Cladocera. 24 drawings, mostly in pencil: Balanus, Pontella, etc

C 32 2 drawings of Corycaeus, 6 and 7 April 1858
C 34 Watercolour: title [not in Huxley's hand] 'Phosphorescent Entomostraca'.
Endorsed on the back in pencil, 'Maldives. Capt Callow [?] 1858'
C 35 3 pencil drawings of [Calyptoceros?] See volume IV, 94
C 37 2 drawings, 'Caligidae', July 1849
C 38 2 drawings, Tenby, July and September 1855
C 39 Chondracanthus gibbosus [Tenby], September 1855
C 40 4 drawings, Chondracanthus gibbosus. See Anatomy of invertebrated
animals
, page 239, figure 61; page 240, figure 62; Medical Times and
Gazette
, Lecture XII, figures 1, 2, 22 August 1857

41-46 Cirripeda. 8 drawings, pencil, and pen and ink, with notes [for the
engraver?] of Balanus, Lepas

C 44 Lepas, 11 August 1885. See Anatomy of invertebrated animals, page
256, figure 67

47, 48 Amphipoda. 2 pencil drawings of Cerapus [1847-8?], Phrosina

49, 50 Isopoda. One pencil drawing of Cymothoa. See Anatomy
invertebrated animals
, page 314, figure 82

51, 52 Cumacea. One pencil drawing: Diastylis rathkii

53-55 Stomatopoda 2 pencil drawings

C 54 Gonodactylis, 20 July 1848
C 55 Erichthus, 5 April 1847

56-64 Schizopoda. 14 pencil drawings, on the development of Mysis vulgaris.
See Medical Times and Gazette, chapter XI, figure 1, 27 June 1857

C 63 Euphausia, 2 May 1848
C 64 'Thysanopoda', 22 July 1849, 'off the Duchatean islands'

65-88 Macrura. 59 drawings, mostly very detailed, in pencil, of Astacus
fluviatilis, Astocopsis franklinii, Homarus vulgaris, Plychetes typhlops, Thalassema.
Some items consist of two or more separate drawings mounted on one sheet; these
have been counted as one drawing. Some are used as illustrations for the 'Crayfish',
1880. See also volume 4, XVI, 'On the classification and distribution of the
Crayfishes', 1878

C 88.3 Drawing dated 13 September 1849

89-92 Brachyura. 6 drawings, pencil and pencil and watercolour, with notes, of
Stenorhynchus, Maia squinado, Megalopa

93-95 Incertae Sedis (Mollusca). 2 pencil and one watercolour drawings

C 94 Watercolour. Endorsed 'Capt Callow [?] Maldive Islands . . .' of an
unidentified copepod crustacean, with an inset diagram of an enlargement
of its eyes
C 95 Pen and ink sketch dated September 1849

Creator Huxley, Thomas Henry
Control BOX C
Date range c. 1847 - c. 1882
Inventory Identifier BOX C Box Number C Series 21
PISCES WITH TUNICATA AND AMPHIOXUS, c 1849-85, 130 folios

1, 2 Tunicata

D 2.1 Pencil sketches dated 25 July, 21-26 September 1849
D 2.2 Watercolour. 'Ascidian from H [ ] Creek'

3, 4 Amphioxus and Ammoceoetes. 3 pencil and watercolour drawings, on
squared paper mounted on a sheet of blue paper, with notes for the printer, 15, 16
and 18 December 1874. See the illustration, The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas
Henry Huxley
, volume 4, chapter III, page 28

5-25 Marsipobranchii. 32 pencil, pen and ink, and watercolour drawings of
dissections of ammocoetes, Bdellostoma, Petromyzon fluviatilis, Petromyzon
marinus, Myxine glutinosa

D 9 Bdellostoma, March 1884
D 15, 17 Petromyzon. See plates 6 and 7, The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas
Henry Huxley
, volume 4, chapter X
D 20 Petromyzon marinus, 23 November 1860

26-35 Elasmobranchii. 18 pencil and watercolour drawings of Notidanus, Raia
clavata, etc

D 27 Cestracion, 15 November 1880
D 32, 33 6 drawings of Scyllium canicula, Scyllium stellare, June 1874
D 34 Drawing of living embryo of Scyllium stellare. See also volume 80
D 35 Watercolour. 'Mr Powrie's Diplacanthus NS'. Endorsed in another
hand, in pencil, 'CRB Oct/62' [Charles R Bone, Artist to the
Geological Survey?]

36-41 Holocephali. 5 pencil, pen and ink, and watercolour drawings of
Chimera, Callorhynchus

D 39 Sketch, with notes, Chimera, 4 November 1875

42-54 Recent Ganoids. 15 pencil and watercolour drawings; several are quite
large (49 x 25 cm) and have been folded

D 45.1 Sketches of Amia, 20 October 1882
D 47 Acipenser, 29 January 1883
D 49-50 Poluodon gladius, 20 January 1883
D 52 Lepidosteus, 27 January 1883
D 54 Polypterus. Three sketches, 1 January 1875; 3 February 1883

55, 56 Crossopterygidae

D 56.1 Pencil sketch: Glyptolepsis
D 56.2 Watercolour: fossilised fish. Signed: J Dinkel, del 1858

57-60 Ostacodermi. 9 highly finished drawings, in pencil and watercolour, of
magnified sections of Cephalapsis and Pterapsis. Pencil notes on some of the
drawings are not in Huxley's hand. See The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas
Henry Huxley
, volume 1, chapter XLVII, plates XXXI, XXXII

D 59.1 Drawing signed: J Harley ad nat del

61-71 Salmonidae. 15 pencil, and pencil and watercolour sketches and
drawings, of Salmo, Osmerus, Thymallus, Coregonus, 1881-1883

72-82 Clupesoces. 16 pencil, and pen and ink and watercolour drawings of
Herring, Pilchard, Sprat, etc

D 79-82 Seven sketches of Sox lucius, October 1882. See Anatomy of
Vertebrated Animals
, chapter 3, figures 45, 49

83-85 Cyprinidae. 3 pencil, and pen and ink and watercolour sketches

D 84.1 Chub, 10 March 1883
D 85 Cobitis barbatula

86-93 Siluridae. 8 pencil, and pen and ink and watercolour drawings of Arius, etc

D 89, 90 Callichthys, November 1883
D 93 Cnidoglanis, 24 December 1863

94, 95 Gymnotus. One pencil drawing, June 1884

96-103 Malacopteri. Eleven pencil, and pen and ink and watercolour drawings of
Gadus, Platessa, 1875, 1882-85. The top left hand corner of D 102 has been torn
away

104-105 Muraenidae. One watercolour sketch: Anguilla, 9 July 1881

106-110 Gastrosteidae [sic]. 8 pencil and watercolour sketches of Gasterosteus

111-125 Acanthopteri and Miscellaneous. 16 pencil and watercolour sketches of
Borys, Scomber, Mugil, Perca fluviatilis, etc, 1882-83

D 121 Pencil drawing, highly finished, 54.5 x 42 cm
D 125 Fishes' tails. See The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry
Huxley
, volume 2, chapter XV, plate 28

126-130 Dipnoi. 8 pencil, pen and ink and watercolour drawings: Ceratodus
forsteri, December 1875 - February 1876. See the figures in The Scientific
Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley
, volume 4, chapter VIII, plates 6 and 7.

Creator Huxley, Thomas Henry
Control BOX D
Date range c. 1849 - c. 1885
Formats Sketches and Drawings
Inventory Identifier BOX D Box Number D Series 21
AMPHIBIA, REPTILIA, AVES, c 1855-82, 85 folios

1-17 Urodela. 46 pencil, and watercolour drawings with notes: Siredon (Axolotl),
1869, 1874-76; Ambylystoma, Menobranchus, Proteus, Salamandra maculosa,
Siren lacertina

E 16.1, 2 Two sketches; Triton larva; Embryo chick in egg [May 1858]. See also
volume VIII.1, 21

18-21 Gymnophiona. 4 pencil and crayon drawings of Ichthyophis glutinosa

22-40 Anura. 45 pencil, and pencil and watercolour drawings: Rana esculenta,
1858, 1873-75; circulatory system, etc

E 24.1, 2 Hylodes martinencis, December 1880
E 27 Sketch of balancing experiment with a frog, 13 November 1871
E 36 Larval frogs; 3 sketches with notes, March-April 1858. See also
volume VIII.16, 66 for notes on development

41-45 Rhyncocephalia. 7 pencil and watercolour drawings: Sphenodon, etc

E 43.1, 2 'Hatteria', 29 July 1869
E 45 Telerpeton elginense. See The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry
Huxley
, volume 3, chapter X, figures A - E

46-50 Lacertilia. 9 pencil, and pen and ink and watercolour drawings: Varanus,
Psammosaurus [?]

E 47.1, 2 Lacerta viridis, 1, 15 February 1862
E 48.1 Anilis equestris, 7 December 1875
E 50 Lacerta viridis: gastrocnemius, September 1872

51-53 Ophidia. 4 pencil drawings, Crotalus, Python, Typhlops, Tortrix. See
Anatomy of vertebrated animals, chapter V, figure 74

54-57 Chelonia. 6 pencil, pen and ink and watercolour drawings of Emys
europea, Testudo graeca. See also volume IX, 98

58-64 Emydosauria (Crocodilia). 13 pencil, pen and ink and watercolour, and
chalk drawings

E 59.1; 60.1, 2 Alligator lucius, February 1882
E 61.2 Crocodilus acutus, 12 May 1855
E 63 Four drawings, Crocodilus, January 1869
E 64 Crocodilus: hand limb. See The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry
Huxley
, volume 3, XXVIII, figure 3 [1869]. See also E 77

65-85 Aves. 53 pencil, pen and ink and watercolour drawings: Pigeon, Golden
Plover, Emu, etc

E 66-73 Apteryx, Duck, Struthio, February - May 1882. See The Scientific
Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley
, volume 4, chapter XXI
E 74.2 Lacerta viridis, Chelydra, 30 January 1882
E 76 Chick: fibula and astragalus, 13 October 1869
E 77 Emu and Dinosaur. Pelvis and hind limb. See reference, E 64, above
E 79-82 Studies of the development of the embryo chick, in pencil and chalk.
See Anatomy of vertebrated animals, chapter I; Lectures on
the elements of comparative anatomy; on the classification of animals
and on the vertebrate skull
, Lecture VII

Creator Huxley, Thomas Henry
Control BOX E
Date range c. 1855 - c. 1882
Formats Drawings
Inventory Identifier BOX E Box Number E Series 21
MAMMALIA, c 1862-84, 179 folios

1-5 Montremata. 5 pencil drawings

F 2 Echidna hystrix, 8 November 1880. See also volume 46.2
F 3 Echidna, nd
F 4.1 Ornithorhynchus, 26-28 November 1879

6-13 Marsupialia. 10 pencil, watercolour and crayon drawings

F 7-11 Pahlangista vulpina, November 1879. Six drawings, with notes
F 12 Phascolomys, 16 January 1884. Details of hind feet, 26.5 x 38 cm
F 13 Phalangista. Brain

14-28 Edentata. 18 crayon and pencil drawings: Bradypus tridactylus,
Choloepus didactylus, Dasypus sexcintus, Myrmecophaga jubata. Details of the
muscles of fore and hind feet, etc

F 22 Dasypus: brain
F 25; 26.2 Myrmecophaga tetradactyla, 4, 6 December 1879
F 28 Orycteropus

29-34 Insectivora. 11 pen and ink and crayon drawings: Erinaceus,
Amphisorex, etc, 1879, 1880

F 30 Dentition of Amphisorex, 27 October 1880. See also volume 47.47

35-44 Ungulata. 11 drawings, all in crayon and pencil except F 42. [1863-64?]
Sheep, Ox, Pig, etc

F 37, 38 Pig: fore and hind limb
F 39 Pig: brain. See Anatomy of vertebrated animals, chapter 11, figure
21
F 42 Foetal lamb. See Anatomy of vertebrated animals, chapter 1,
figure 9
F 43, 44 Brains of Ox and Rhinoceros

45-47 Sirenia. 3 crayon drawings: Halicore

F 47 Dorsal view of heart. See Anatomy of vertebrated animals, page
332, figure 103

48-54 Hyracoidea. 6 pencil, and one chalk drawings; one letter; on Hyrax
capensis

F 48vo Letter from William SHARPEY, 7 April 1862, 33 Woburn Place [London].
Information about figures of placenta and foetal membranes of 'Hyrax
Capensis' in Sir Everard Home's Comparative Anatomy
F 51 Colon, 15 February 1866
F 54 Brain. See also F 13, 22

55-83 Rodentia. 49 pencil, pen and ink and chalk drawings. Lepus caniculus,
etc

F 56 Lepus: muscles of forefoot [1862-63]
F 57, 58 Muscles of hind leg
F 62-69 Lepus, October 1879, June 1880
F 75-77 Foetal rabbits, June 1880
F 70 Brain
F 78-83 Twelve drawings: Arvicola, Georhychus, Mus decumans,
Muscardinus, October 1880. See also volume 48

84-107 Carnivora. 36 drawings; pencil, and chalk on buff paper. Canis, Canis
vulpes, Canis dingo, Octcyon, Cynodictis, etc, October 1879 - May 1880. See
The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley, volume 4, chapter XXII,
XXV

F 85 Canis vulups, Phalangista vulpina; insertion of pectineus. See The
Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley
, volume 4, XXIII
F 86 Dog: muscles of left forefoot
F 91 Dog and Wolf: comparison of colon
F 106 Foetal Dog

108, 109 Cetacea. One pencil drawing; colon of Phocaena

110-115 Dermoptera. 6 drawings; pencil, and chalk on terra cotta paper:
Galeopithecus

F 111, 112 Muscles of hind leg
F 113 Muscles of foreleg
F 115 Colon

116-118 Cheiroptera. Two chalk drawings: Pteropsu

F 118 Muscles of hind leg

119-124 Lemuroidea. Watercolour drawings: Arctocebus (Angwantibo), Lemur.
See The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley, volume 2, XXXVII,
figures 1, 2, 8-12

125, 126 Arctopitheci. 3 watercolour drawings: Hapale: muscles of right foot

F 126.3 Drawing dated 26 September 1861

127-140 Platyrhini 28 pencil, watercolour and chalk drawings: Ateles, Lagothrix
humboldtii, Nyctopithecus: details of muscles of fore and hind feet, etc

F 133, 134 Mycetes, October 1863
F 136.2, 137 Douroucouli: brain, forefeet, genitalia, 12, 13 September 1861

141-148 Macacus. 7 pencil and chalk drawings: Macacus rhenus: muscles
of fore and hind feet, October - November 1863

149-172 Simidae. 27 pencil and crayon drawings: Hylobates, Orang,
Chimpanzee: muscles of hands and feet, etc, 1861-1864

F 170, 172 Chimpanzee: brain

173-179 Homo. 8 pen and ink and watercolour, and crayon drawings

F 174-178 Six drawings, December 1863. Muscles of hand, etc
F 179 Studies of foetus, with notes, 2 March 1869; 19 April 1862

Creator Huxley, Thomas Henry
Control BOX F
Date range c. 1862 - c. 1884
Formats General Correspondence and Drawings
Inventory Identifier BOX F Box Number F Series 21
ANTHROPOLOGICAL PHOTOGRAPHS, c 1865-1898, 1-71 folios

The sheets in this box and no 05414 are numbered in one sequence. Most of the photographs are of male, nude subjects, taken either seated or standing, sometimes with a scale. Where two photographs are mounted on one card, they have been listed as two separate items.

1-2 Anthropological photographs. Two photographs and a note by Professor
Howes, dated December 1898, about a further photograph believed to have been
stolen. The two remaining photographs appear to be of Europeans

3-31 Africans (Dr W H Bleek and others). 14 photographs, 30 folios

18b Three photographs of a steatopygic female Hottentot, with an accompanying
letter about their ugliness from Leonard HUXLEY to Professor Howes, 20
December 1895, with an endorsement by Professor Howes, dated 13
January 1896
19 Letter from John KIRK, 29 December 1865, Tavistock Hotel [London], about
the 'raised dwellings of the people of Zambesi' with an accompanying
photograph

32-71 Various (largely Indian), Abyssinia, Siam, Pelew and Caroline Island, etc.
95 photographs

Creator Huxley, Thomas Henry
Control [BOX G]
Date range c. 1865 - c. 1898
Formats General Correspondence and Mounted Photographic Prints
Inventory Identifier [BOX G] Box Number G Series 21
ANTHROPOLOGICAL PHOTOGRAPHS, c 1857-1871, 72-154 folios

72-83 Natives of India, China, Ceylon and the Malayan Peninsula (Earl Kimberley,
1871)
. 22 photographs. A number are endorsed with details of the age and
origins of the subject

84, 85 Hairy Burmese (W Houghton, 1868). Three photographs

86-88 Formosa Islanders (W A Pye, 1870). 12 photographs

89, 90 Japanese and Aino (Commander Bullock). One large coloured
photograph, taken by Frederick William Sutton, July 1857, of 'a chief of the Ainos
of Yezo on his six-yearly visit to Hakodate (with Japanese interpreter)'

91-101 Australian Aborigines (Earl Kimberley, 1871). Ten photographs, each
endorsed 'photographed by C A Woolley, August 1866'

102-106 West Australians (Governor Weld, 1870). 9 photographs

107-115 South Australians (Sir J Ferguson, 1870). 32 photographs

116-124 Maoris. Pure and half caste. 49 photographs. The names of many of the
subjects are given. In all but one photograph either native or contemporary dress
is worn

125-132 Bermuda Islanders (Sir F E Chapman, 1870). 26 photographs

133-136 American Indians. Eleven photographs, some of which are badly faded

137-138 Terra del Fuegans (Earl Kimberley, 1870). 4 photographs

139-154 Crania (Various)

140-142 Five photographs of the 'Bondi skull' and a newscutting from the
Herald, 25 February 1864, about human remains at Milsom's
Point, North Shore
143-146 Ten further photographs of skulls
147-151 Five pencil drawings of skull No 10519, 'Booreby Stone period' at a
Copenhagan Museum, June 1861. F 151 is endorsed 'Lubbock's
cranium'
152-154 Three photographs of skulls

See volumes XV, XVI, for correspondence about these photographs and their acquisition

Creator Huxley, Thomas Henry
Control [BOX H]
Date range c. 1857 - c. 1871
Formats General Correspondence, Mounted Photographic Prints and Drawings
Inventory Identifier [BOX H] Box Number H Series 21

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