Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley
Volume 2
Part of Cambridge Library Collection - Darwin, Evolution and Genetics
- Author: Leonard Huxley
- Real Author: Thomas Henry Huxley
- Date Published: December 2011
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108040464
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Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95), the English biologist and naturalist, was known as 'Darwin's Bulldog', and is best remembered today for his vociferous support for Darwin's theory of evolution. He was, however, an influential naturalist, anatomist and religious thinker, who coined the term 'agnostic' to describe his own beliefs. Almost entirely self-educated, he became an authority in anatomy and palaeontology, and after the discovery of the archaeopteryx, he was the first to suggest that birds had evolved from dinosaurs. He was also a keen promoter of scientific education who strove to make science a paid profession, not dependent on patronage or wealth. Published in 1903, this three-volume work, edited by his son Leonard Huxley, is the second and most complete edition of Huxley's biography and selected letters. Volume 2 covers the period 1870–86, including Huxley's American lecture tour, and the death of his friend Charles Darwin in 1882.
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- Date Published: December 2011
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108040464
- length: 490 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 140 x 28 mm
- weight: 0.62kg
- contains: 1 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. 1870
2. 1871
3. 1872
4. 1873
5. 1874
6. 1875–6
7. 1875–6
8. 1876
9. 1877
10. 1878
11. 1879
12. 1881
13. 1882
14. 1883
15. 1884
16. 1884–5
17. 1885
18. 1886
19. 1886.
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