| Authorised form of name | Huxley; Sir; Julian Sorell (1887 - 1975); zoologist; philosopher; eugenicist |
| Dates | 1887 - 1975 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | 61 Russell Square, Bloomsbury, London, England, United Kingdom |
| Date of birth | 22 June 1887 |
| Place of death | His home, 31 Pond Street, Hampstead, London, England, United Kingdom |
| Date of death | 14 February 1975 |
| DatesAndPlaces | Place of marriage: St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, England, United Kingdom.
Burial (of his ashes): Compton Chapel, Puttenham, Surrey, England, United Kingdom. |
| Occupation | Zoologist |
| Research field | Eugenics |
| Embryology |
| Conservation |
| Evolutionary Genetics |
| Biology |
| Activity | Education:
Eton; Balliol College, Oxford;
Career:
Naples Zoological Station (1909); lecturer and demonstrator at the department of zoology and comparative anatomyat Balliol College, Oxford; assistant professorship, Rice University, Houston, Texas (1913); returned to England and joined the Army Service Corps intelligence (1916); appointed a fellow of New College, Oxford, and made senior demonstrator in zoology (1919); chair of zoology at King's College, London (1925).
Honours:
Kt 1958
Awards/Medals:
Kalinga Prize 1953
Darwin–Wallace Medal 1958
Lasker Award 1959 |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 17/03/1938 |
| Age at election | 51 |
| Proposer | Martin Alister Campbell Hinton |
| Edward Heron-Allen |
| John Burdon Sanderson Haldane |
| D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson |
| William Kingdon |
| Cresswell Shearer |
| John Ashworth Ratcliffe |
| Peter Chalmers Mitchell |
| David Meredith Seares Watson |
| David Keilin |
| James Gray |
| John Stanley Gardiner |
| Edward Bagnall Poulton |
| Reginald Crundall Punnett |
| Edwin Stephen Goodrich |
| RSActivity | Medals and prizes:
Darwin Medal 1956 |
| Relationships | Parents: Leonard Huxley (1860–1933), schoolmaster at Charterhouse, and Julia Frances Arnold (1862–1908), schoolteacher.
Grandfather: Thomas Henry Huxley (FRS 1851)
Siblings: Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894-1963)
Half-brother: Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley (FRS 1955)
Spouse: (m. 29 March 1919) Juliette Huxley (1896–1994), daughter of Alphonse Baillot, solicitor of Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
Children: Anthony Julian Huxley (1920–1992), botanist, and Francis Huxley (b. 1923), anthropologist. |
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| OtherInfo | Distinguished for observations on, and new interpretations of, courtship and sexual life of birds, and for contributions in Experimental Zoology and Genetics. These include papers on Regeneration in Sponges, on Dedifferentiation in Aurelia, Obelia, Echinus, Perophora, Clavellina, on modification of development by temperature gradients, on factors affecting Metamorphosis in Amphibia and Echinus, on Inheritance and Linkage in Gammarus, containing important new results. |
| Royal Society Obituary or Memoir | Click to view (may be contained within a meeting notice, presidential address or list of death notices) |
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| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1976 vol 22 pp 207-238, plate, by J R Baker
References:
Quentin Bone, 'Spokesman for Science', review of C K Waters and A Van Helden, eds, Julian Huxley: Biologist and Statesman of Science in NR 1995 vol 49 pp 350-352, plate
John Postgate, review of Milo Keynes and G Ainsworth Harrison, eds, Evolutionary Studies, A Centenary Celebration of the Life of Julian Huxley in NR 1992 vol 46 pp 193-196
Krishna R Dronamraju, 'On Some Aspects of the Life and Work of John Burdon Sanderson Haldane, FRS, in India' in NR 1986-87 vol 41 pp 211-237
Sir Andrew Huxley, 'Grandfather and Grandson' in NR 1983-84 vol 38 pp 147-151
J Cairs @Julian Huxley, general biology and the London Zoo, 1935-42' NR, 2010, vol 64, pp 359-378
Notes:
Birthplace from The Times, 22 June 2001 |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/39451154 |
| Code | NA7127 |
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| IM/002343 | Huxley, Sir Julian Sorell | June 1967 |
| PB/1/33/1/4 | Letters of congratualtion on Nobel Prize to Patrick Blackett from correspondents 'H' | 1948 |
| PB/9/1/57 | Correspondence with Sir Julian Huxley | 1964 |
| EC/1938/09 | Huxley, Sir Julian Sorell: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| PB/1/33/3/3 | Companion of Honour | 1965 |
| PB/1/33/5/3 | Order of Merit | 1967 |
| PB/8/28/3/1 | Correspondence with colleagues and friends after delivery and publication of Blackett's Presidential Address to the British Academy. | c.1957 |
| PB/1/34/1 | Letters of congratulation on Blackett's Life Peerage | 1969 |
| IM/GA/AR/6756 | Huxley, Sir Julian Sorell | nd |
| RR/18/152 | Referee's report by Edward Alfred Minchin, on a paper 'Some phenomena of regeneration in sycon: with a note on the structure of its collar-cells' by Julian Sorell Huxley | April 1911 |
| MDA/A/17/2 | Copy letter from [Alfred Egerton] to Julian Sorell Huxley | 11 July 1939 |
| NLB/44/59 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to J [Julian] S [Sorell] Huxley BA | 29 April 1911 |
| NLB/58/207 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Julian [Sorell] Huxley Esquire, FRS | 26 March 1920 |
| RR/18/151 | Referee's report by Arthur Dendy, on a paper 'Some phenomena of regeneration in sycon: with a note on the structure of its collar-cells' by Julian Sorell Huxley | March 1911 |
| NLB/58/553 | Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Julian [Sorell] Huxley Esquire; Postmaster's Hall, Oxford | 21 May 1920 |
| NLB/58/435 | Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Julian Sorell] Huxley Esquire, FRS; New College, Oxford | 5 May 1920 |
| NLB/62/113 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Julian Sorell] Huxley Esquire, FRS | 5 December 1921 |
| RR/33/100 | Referee's report by James Peter Hill, on a paper 'Studies on amphibian metamorphosis. —II' by Julian Sorell Huxley | January 1925 |
| RR/65/100 | Referee's report by Julian Sorell Huxley, on a paper 'The development of rodent teeth in the embryo and in vitro' by S Glasstone | May 1938 |
| NLB/67/404 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Sidney [Frederic] Harmer, KBE, FRS | 15 December 1924 |
| RR/65/180 | Referee's report by Julian Sorell Huxley, on a paper 'Visual stimulation and ovulation in pigeons' by Leonard Harrison Matthews | October 1938 |
| RR/26/66 | Referee's report by Reginald Crundall Punnett, on a paper 'Studies in dedifferentiation I - Dedifferentiation in Echinus larvae, and it's relation to metamorphosis' by Julian Sorell Huxley | [November 1921] |
| NLB/62/145 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Julian Sorell] Huxley Esquire, FRS; New College, Oxford | 9 December 1921 |
| RR/53/98 | Referee's report by Edgar Johnson Allen, on a paper 'On regeneration and reorganisation in Sabella' by F Gross and Julian Sorell Huxley | [January 1935] |
| NLB/62/83 | Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Julian Sorell] Huxley Esquire, FRS | 28 November 1921 |
| RR/67/278 | Referee's report by Julian Sorrell Huxley, on a paper 'Mutation effects of ultra-violet light in Drosophila' by K Mackenzie and Hermann Joseph Muller | July 1940 |
| NLB/67/485 | Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Edwin Stephen] Goodrich, FRS | 8 January 1925 |
| NLB/69/808 | Copy letter from Henry Hallett Dale, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. Julian [Sorell] Huxley, King's College, WC2 | 21 October 1926 |
| IM/002342 | Huxley, Sir Julian Sorell | 1958 |
| RR/72/206 | Letter from Julian Sorell Huxley, on a paper 'The form-transformation of the abdomen of the female pea-crab, Pinnotheres pisum Leach' by A E Needham to D C Martin, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society | 13 February 1950 |
| ACS/1/2/1/26 | Letter from [Alan Archibald Campbell] Swinton, to H. T. Brackenbury, [Esquire]., The Bath Club, 34 Dover Street, W.1 | 22 October 1922 |
| RR/26/65 | Referee's report by Ernest William MacBride, on a paper 'Studies in dedifferentiation I - Dedifferentiation in Echinus larvae, and it's relation to metamorphosis' by Julian Sorell Huxley | [June 1921] |
| RR/26/67 | Referee's report by Arthur Robertson Cushny, on a paper 'Experiments on Amphibian metamorphosis and pigment responses in relation to internal secretions' by Julian Sorell Huxley and Lancelot Thomas Hogben | [October 1921] |
| RR/51/143 | Referee's report by Edgar Johnson Allen, on a paper 'The structure and development of normal and mutant eyes in Gammarus chevreuxi' by A Wolsky and Julian Sorell Huxley | [November 1933] |
| RR/53/97 | Referee's report by Cresswell Shearer, on a paper 'On regeneration and reorganisation in Sabella' by F Gross and Julian Sorell Huxley | [February 1935] |
| RR/53/99 | Referee's report by Ernest William MacBride, on a paper 'On regeneration and reorganisation in Sabella' by F Gross and Julian Sorell Huxley | [January 1935] |
| RR/53/100 | Referee's report by James Gray, on a paper 'On regeneration and reorganisation in Sabella' by F Gross and Julian Sorell Huxley | 6 January 1935 |
| RR/65/92 | Referee's report by Julian Sorell Huxley, on a paper 'The mammary gland of the rhesus monkey under normal and experimental conditions' by Sydney John Folley, A N Guthkelch and Solly Zuckerman | October 1938 |
| RR/72/204 | Letter from Julian Sorell Huxley, on a paper 'The form-transformation of the abdomen of the female pea-crab, Pinnotheres pisum Leach' by A E Needhamto D C Martin, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society | 15 October 1949 |
| RR/72/207 | Referee's report by Julian Sorell Huxley, on a paper 'The form-transformation of the abdomen of the female pea-crab, Pinnotheres pisum Leach' by A E Needham to D C Martin, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society | 1949 |
| RR/78/89 | Referee's report by Julian Sorell Huxley, on a paper 'A biometrical study of Micraster coranguinum and Isomicraster senonensis' by K A Kermack | 22 January 1953 |
| ACS/1/2/3/658 | Letter from [Alan Archibald Campbell] Swinton, to Julian [Sorell] Huxley [Esquire], King's College, W. C. 2. | 14 November 1928 |