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Authorised form of nameHuxley; Thomas Henry (1825 - 1895)
Dates1825 - 1895
NationalityBritish
Place of birthEaling, Middlesex, England
Date of birth04 May 1825
Place of deathEastbourne, Sussex
Date of death29 June 1895
Dates and placesBurial:
Finchley, Middlesex
OccupationSurgeon
Research fieldZoology
Evolution
Palaeontology
Ethnology
ActivityCareer:
Assistant Surgeon, Royal Navy; served aboard HMS Rattlesnake on surveying voyage to Australia and the Great Barrier Reef
Relocation of Imperial College where he worked for 40 years to South Kensington
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election05/06/1851
Royal Society activityRoyal Society roles:
Sec 1872-1881; PRS 1883-1885; VP 1881-1882, 1885-1886
Medals and prizes:
Royal Medal 1852; Copley Medal 1888; Darwin Medal 1894
Lectures:
Croonian 1858
RelationshipsGrandfather of Thomas Lydwell Eckersley (FRS 1938), and of Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley (FRS 1955), and of Sir Julian Sorell Huxley (FRS 1938)
SourcesSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1895-1896 vol 59 pp xlvi-lxvi signed by M F
References:
J W Haas, 'The Reverend Dr William Henry Dallinger, FRS (1839-1909)' in NR 2000 vol 54 pp 53-65
Brian J Ford, 'Shining through the centuries: John Ray's life and legacy. A report of the meeting "John Ray and his successors"' in NR 2000 vol 54 pp 5-22
Richard D Keynes, 'Darwin's Bulldog', review of Adrian Desmond, Huxley: The Devil's Disciple in NR 1995 vol 49 pp 345-347, plate
J Vernon Jensen, 'Thomas Henry Huxley's Address at the Opening of the Johns Hopkins University in September 1876' in NR 1993 vol 47 pp 257-269
Colin A Russell, 'Evangelist For Science', review of J Vernon Jensen, Thomas Henry Huxley: Communicating for Science in NR 1993 vol 47 pp 150-152
J V Jensen, 'Thomas Henry Huxley's Lecture Tour of the United States, 1876' in NR 1988 vol 42 pp 181-195
Marie Boas Hall, 'The Royal Society in Thomas Henry Huxley's Time' in NR 1983-84 vol 38 pp 153-158
Sir Andrew Huxley, 'Grandfather and Grandson' in NR 1983-84 vol 38 pp 147-151
M J Bartholomew, 'The Award of the Copley Medal to Charles Darwin' in NR 1975-6 vol 30 pp 209-218
J Vernon Jensen, 'Thomas Henry Huxley's "Baptism into Oratory"' in NR 1975-6 vol 30 pp 181-207
Roy M MacLeod, 'The X-Club: A Social Network of Science in Late-Victorian England' in NR 1969 vol 24 pp 305-322
Sir Henry Dale, 'Sir Michael Foster, KCB, FRS, a Secretary of the Royal Society' in NR 1964 vol 19 pp 10-32
Vanity Fair 28 January 1871
R W Home, 'The Royal Society and the Empire: the colonial and Commonwealth Fellowship. Part 2. After 1847' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 47-84
M DeArce, N T Monaghan 7 P N Wyse Jackson ' The uneasy correspondence between T H Huxley and E P Wright on fossil vertebrtes found in Jarrow, Co. Kilkenny (1865-67) NR 2011 vol 65 pp 253-272
Website: http://aleph0.clarku.edu/huxley
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/66511085
Royal Society codeNA8243
Archives associated with this Fellow
Reference numberTitleDate
MM/9/18Letter from T H Huxley, Hodeslea, Staveley Road, Eastbourne, to Sir John Evans11 March 1892
MM/9/17Letter from T H Huxley, Hodeslea, Staveley Road, Eastbourne, to Sir John Evans7 March 1892
NLB/12/360Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr O'Brien, 4 Upper Baker Street, N.W.6 February 1896
MC/10/363Letter from H [Henry] Newell Martin, Christ's College, Cambridge, to Professor [Thomas Henry] Huxley, Secretary of the Royal Society9 March 1876
M/128Medal of the Royal College of Science
IM/002349Huxley, Thomas Henrynd
MS/769/44Letter from Thomas Henry Huxley, 4 Marlbrough Place, Abbey Road, to [Walter] White19 July 1881 [?]
IM/Maull/002350Huxley, Thomas Henrynd
PP/4/31Paper, 'On the structure and functional significance of the human corpus callosum' by D J [David James] Hamilton1884
IM/002346Huxley, Thomas Henrynd
VF/18Portrait of Thomas Henry Huxley by Carlo Pellegrini28 January 1871
IM/002351Huxley, Thomas Henry1877
P/0186Portrait of Huxley, Thomas Henry 1885
MM/9/16Letter from T H Huxley, Hodeslea, Staveley Road, Eastbourne, to Sir John Evans28 December 1891
MM/9/9Letter from T H Huxley, Prince of Wales Hotel, Harrogate, to Sir John Evans30 June 1886
MM/6/75Letter from Thomas Henry Huxley, South Kensington, to Prof Thomas Bonney28 June 1880
IM/005898Huxley, Thomas Henrynd
MM/14/134Letter from 21 Fellows (including Richard Owen and T H Huxley) supporting an application by William Saville Kent for a grant towards the expenses of his proposed Marine Biological Expedition to the coast of Portugal1870
IM/Maull/002347Huxley, Thomas Henrynd
MM/9/14Letter from T H Huxley, Casalini, West Cliff, Bournemouth, to Sir John Evans8 March 1888
MM/9/13Letter from T H Huxley, Cassalini, West Cliff, Bournemouth, to Sir John Evans24 February 1888
MM/9/10Letter from T H Huxley, 4 Marlborough Place, Abbey Road, London, to Sir John Evans21 July 1886
MM/9/8Letter from T H Huxley, "Cassalini", Bournemouth, to Sir John Evans17 March 1886
MM/9/12Letter from T H Huxley, 4 Marlborough Place, Abbey Road, London, to Sir John Evans27 June 1887
MS/769/45Letter from Thomas Henry Huxley to [Walter] White4 December 1881 [?]
MS/769/51Letter from Thomas Henry Huxley, The Royal Society, Burlington House, London, to [Walter] White30 July 1884
MS/769/52Letter from Thomas Henry Huxley to [Walter White?]no date
MS/769/46Letter from Thomas Henry Huxley, 4 Marlborough Place, Abbey Road, to [Walter] White20 February 1882 [?]
MS/769/50Letter from Thomas Henry Huxley, 4 Marlborough Place, Abbey Road, to [Walter] White 21 July 1884 [?]
MS/769/47Letter from Thomas Henry Huxley, 4 Marlborough Place, Abbey Road, to [Walter] White24 February 1882 [?]
MS/769/49Letter from James L Shuter, 9 Steeles Road, Haverstock Hill, to Thomas Henry Huxley3 May 1884
MS/769/43Letter from Thomas Henry Huxley, 4 Marlborough Place, to [Walter] White20 July 1877
MS/743/1/179Letter from Thomas Henry Huxley, 4 Marlborough Place, Abbey Road, to [John Hall] Gladstone2 March [1864?]
MS/373/1/20Letter from Thomas Henry Huxley, Hodeslea, Eastbourne, to [Thomas Edward] Thorpe4 July 1891
MC/11/201Letter from Richard Norris, Birckfield, Birmingham, to Professor [Thomas Henry] Huxley, Secretary of the Royal Society20 April 1878
IM/002352Huxley, Thomas Henrynd
IM/002344Huxley, Thomas Henrynd
IM/002345Huxley, Thomas Henrynd
PT/71/1/12Plate, lateral aspect of pseudoembryo by [Edwin M Williams]December 1862
PT/71/1/22Plate, pentacrinoid larva before expansion of ventral disk by [Edwin M Williams][1862]
PT/71/1/19Plate, pentacrinoid larva after separation of oral valves by [Edwin M Williams][1862]
NLB/1/731Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Thomas Henry Huxley, Fellow of the Royal Society18 November 1887
NLB/2/183Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Thomas Henry Huxley, Fellow of the Royal Society15 February 1888
NLB/1/19Copy letter from Thomas Henry Huxley, to Sir Andrew Clarke17 November 1885
NLB/1/18Copy letter from Thomas Henry Huxley, to Colonel Mailtand17 November 1885
NLB/2/992Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Thomas Henry Huxley, Fellow of the Royal Society22 January 1889
NLB/2/122Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Michael Foster [Royal Society]24 January 1888
NLB/2/129Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Thomas Henry Huxley, Fellow of the Royal Society27 January 1888
NLB/2/766Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Professor Thomas Henry Huxley, Fellow of the Royal Society1 November 1888
NLB/2/918Copy letter from [Michael Foster], to Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe, MP, Fellow of the Royal Society22 December 1888
NLB/3/199Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Thomas Henry Huxley, Fellow of the Royal Society10 April 1889
NLB/3/921Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Messrs Harrison & Sons11 November 1889
NLB/10/340Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to the Right Honourable Thomas Henry Huxley, Fellow of the Royal Society10 November 1894
NLB/5/64Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Messrs Harrisons5 March 1891
NLB/5/148Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Thomas Henry Huxley, Fellow of the Royal Society2 April 1891
NLB/7/219Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Michael Foster22 December 1892
NLB/10/354Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to the Right Honourable Thomas Henry Huxley, Fellow of the Royal Society12 November 1894
NLB/10/261Copy letter from Lord Rayleigh [John Wiliam Strutt], to the Right Honourable Thomas Henry Huxley, Fellow of the Royal Society 1 November 1894
NLB/8/739Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to the Right Honorable Professor Huxley, Fellow of the Royal Society15 December 1893
NLB/11/453Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to H Huxley, 2 Queensborough Terrace, W.3 June 1895
NLB/10/1032Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to the Right Honourable Thomas Henry Huxley, Fellow of the Royal Society27 March 1895
NLB/13/200Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Leonard Huxley1 July 1896
NLB/11/447Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Thomas George Bonney, Fellow of the Royal Society3 July 1895
NLB/11/851Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Dr O'Brien, Upper Baker Street18 October 1895
NLB/11/426Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Messrs Harrison & Sons1 July 1895
NLB/11/556Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Michael Foster23 July 1895
NLB/13/161Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to The Cambridge Engraving Company23 June 1896
NLB/13/126Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to The Cambridge Engraving Company 19 June 1896
NLB/13/185Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to The Cambridge Engraving Company27 June 1896
NLB/13/248Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to The Cambridge Engraving Company10 July 1896
NLB/12/399Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Mrs Huxley, Hodeslea, Staveley Road, Eastbourne13 February 1896
NLB/12/450Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Michael Foster, [Royal Society]19 February 1896
NLB/14/88Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Signor Professor Dr Gennaro Scognamiglio, Vico Storto Purgatorio, 9, Naples, Italy24 December 1896
NLB/6/887Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Professor Thomas George Bond Howes, Royal College of Science2 August 1892
NLB/14/411Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Edwin Ray Lankester, Fellow of the Royal Society6 March 1897
PT/71/1/21Plate, arrangement of non-extensile tentacles of pentacrinoid larva by [Edwin M Williams][1862]
NLB/17/630Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to C E Fagan28 November 1898
NLB/17/445Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to L Huxley, The Charterhouse, Godalming2 November 1898
NLB/18/279Copy letter from [Robert William Frederick Harrison], to [Mr L Huxley]17 February 1899
MC/11/450Letter from J D [Joseph David] Everett, Malone Road, Belfast, to [Thomas Henry Huxley and George Gabriel Stokes], Secretaries of the Royal Society9 December 1879
MC/9/571Letter from W A Ploss [?], Shooter's Hill, Kent, to Professor [Thomas Henry] Huxley, [Secretary of the Royal Society], Burlington House25 May 1873
MC/10/178Letter from J Y [John Young] Buchanan, HMS 'Challenger', Hong Kong, to Professor [Thomas Henry] Huxley, Secretary of the Royal Society16 December 1874
MC/10/197Letter from Alfred Newton, 10 Beaufort Gardens, to [Thomas Henry] Huxley, [Secretary of the Royal Society]19 January 1875
RR/4/56Referee's report by Thomas Henry Huxley, on a paper 'On the relations of the vomer, ethmoid, and intermaxillary bones' by John Cleland17 May 1861
RR/2/106Referee's report by Thomas Henry Huxley, on a paper 'On the functions and structure of the rostellum of Listera ovata' by Joseph Dalton Hooker October 1854
RR/2/113Referee's report by Edward Forbes, on a paper 'On the morphology of the cephalous mollusca, as illustrated by the anatomy of certain heteropoda and pteropoda collected during the voyage of H. M. S. "Rattlesnake" in 1846-50' by Thomas Henry Huxley27 July 1852
RR/2/85Referee's report by Thomas Henry Huxley, on a paper 'On the anatomy of Doris' by Albany Hancock and Dennis Embleton7 April 1854
RR/4/75Referee's report by Thomas Henry Huxley, on a paper 'Researches into the nature of the involuntary muscular tissue of the urinary bladder' by George Viner Ellis14 March 1859
RR/4/142Referee's report by Thomas Henry Huxley, on a paper 'On the distorted skulls found at Wroxeter (Salop), with a mechanico-chemical explanation of the distortion' by Henry Johnson1 April 1862
RR/4/157Referee's report by Thomas Henry Huxley, on a paper 'Notes on the generative organs, and on the formation of the egg in the annulosa' by John Lubbock17 May 1861
RR/3/228Referee's report by Thomas Henry Huxley, on a paper 'On the structure and development of the cysticercus cellulosœ as found in the muscles of the pig' by George Rainey18 July 1856
MC/12/154Letter from John D [Denis] Macdonald, [?] Netley, Southampton, to [Thomas Henry] Huxley, [Secretary of the Royal Society]12 March 1881
RR/3/183Referee's report by Thomas Henry Huxley, on a paper 'An account of the two methods of reproduction in Daphnia, and of the structure of the Ephippium' by John Lubbock25 March 1857
RR/4/97Letter from Thomas Henry Huxley, on a paper 'On the posterior lobes of the cerebrum of the quadrumana' by William Henry Flower4 March 1862
PT/64/14/16Plate, 'Intermaxillaries of the giraffe' by J [John] Cleland[1861]
PT/71/1/7Plate, earlier stages of yolk segmentation by [Edwin M Williams]December 1862
PT/71/1/11Plate, ventral aspect of pseudoembryo by [Edwin M Williams]December 1862
RR/4/218Referee's report by Thomas Henry Huxley, on a paper 'On the aquiferous and oviducal system in the Lamellibranchiate mollusks' by George Rolleston and C Robertson24 June 1862
RR/3/267Referee's report by John Phillips, on a paper 'On the structure and motion of glaciers' by John Tyndall and Thomas Henry Huxley16 March 1857
PT/71/1/18Plate, portion of oral disc of pentacrinoid larva by [Edwin M Williams][1862]
RR/3/16Referee's report by Thomas Henry Huxley, on a paper 'On the development of the decapod crustacea' by Spence Bates3 August 1857
RR/7/302Referee's report by Thomas Henry Huxley, on a paper 'The localization of function in the brain' by David Ferrier1874
RR/6/200Referee's report by Thomas Henry Huxley, on a paper 'On the osteology of the solitaire or Didine Bird of the Island of Rodriguez, Pezophaps solitaria ( Gmel.)' by Alfred Newton and Edward Newton7 July 1868
RR/7/91Referee's report by Thomas Henry Huxley, on a paper 'On the structure and affinities of guynia annulata, dunc., with remarks upon the persistence of palaeozoic types of madreporaria' by Peter Martin Duncan29 July 1871
RR/6/300Referee's report by Thomas Henry Huxley, on a paper 'On the geographical and geological relations of the fauna and flora of Palestine' by Henry Baker Tristram27 May 1868
RR/9/30Referee's report by Thomas Henry Huxley, on a paper 'On the development of the ossicula auditus in the higher mammalia' by Alex Fraser10 June 1882
RR/7/454Referee's report by Thomas Henry Huxley, on a paper 'On the structure of a species of millepora occurring at Tahiti, Society Islands' by Henry Nottidge Moseley13 April 1876
RR/7/446Referee's report by Thomas Henry Huxley, on a paper 'On the comparative anatomy of the auditory ossicles of the mammalia' by Alban G H Doran20 October 1876
RR/8/136Letter from Thomas Henry Huxley, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'Contributions to the anatomy of the central nervous system vertebrate animals' by Alfred Sanders18 July 1878
RR/7/496Referee's report by Thomas Henry Huxley, on a paper 'The optical deportment of the atmosphere in relation to the phenomena of putrefaction and infection' by John Tyndall10 April 1876
RR/9/52Referee's report by Thomas Henry Huxley, on a paper 'An attempt at a complete osteology of hypsilophodon foxii; a British Wealden dinosaur' by John Whitaker Hulke2 May 1882
RR/9/113Referee's report by Thomas Henry Huxley, on a paper 'Contributions to the anatomy of the hirudinea' by Alfred Gibbs Bourne28 July 1883
RR/9/353Referee's report by Thomas Henry Huxley, on a paper 'Remarks on the cloaca and on the copulatory organs of the amniota' by Hans Friedrich Gadow10 June 1886
RR/8/323Letter from Thomas Henry Huxley, to William Spottiswoode, regarding a paper 'On toroidal functions' by William Mitchinson Hicks2 October 1881
RR/8/354Referee's report by Thomas Henry Huxley, on a paper 'On the female organs and placentation of the raccoon (Procyon lotor)' by Morrison Watson23 March 1881
AP/60/4/4Unpublished letter, regarding 'Experimental researches on the temperature of the head' from H [Henry] Charlton Bastian to T H [Thomas Henry] Huxley11 April 1878
RR/9/365Referee's report by Thomas Henry Huxley, on a paper 'Supplementary note on Polacanthus Foxii, describing the dorsal and some parts of the endoskeleton imperfectly known in 1881' by John Whitaker Hulke3 July 1887
RR/12/109Referee's report by Thomas Henry Huxley, on a paper 'On the evolution of the vertebral column of fishes' by Hans Friedrich Gadow and E C Abbott18 July 1894
RR/12/7Referee's report by Thomas Henry Huxley, on a paper 'On some new reptiles from the Elgin sandstones' by Edwin Tulley Newton13 February 1893
MS/427/5Copy letter from [Thomas Henry] Huxley, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Secretary of the Treasury7 November 1879
RR/6/215Referee's report by Thomas Henry Huxley, on a paper 'On the structure and development of the skull of the common fowl (Gallus domesticus)' by William Kitchen Parker28 April 1869
RR/10/84Referee's report by Thomas Henry Huxley, on the Croonian Lecture 'Researches on the structure, organization, and classification of the fossil Reptilia.—II. On Pareiasaurus bombidens (Owen), and the significance of its affinities to Amphibians, Reptiles, and Mammals' by Harry Govier Seeley24 May 1887
RR/4/132Referee's report by Thomas Henry Huxley, on a paper 'On the homologies of the eye and of its parts in the Invertebrata' by John Braxton Hicks7 May 1861
RR/2/7Referee's report by Thomas Henry Huxley, on a paper 'On the anatomy and physiology of Cordylophora, a contribution to our knowledge of the tubularian zoophytes' by George James Allman17 July 1853
RR/4/35Referee's report by Thomas Henry Huxley, on a paper 'Researches on foraminifera - fourth and concluding series' by William Benjamin Carpenter1860
NLB/62/712Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to W. Lewis Reid Esquire; 51 Loftus Road, Shepherd's Bush, W.12.10 April 1922
NLB/62/462Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Assistant Secretary of the British Association17 February 1922
RR/7/192Referee's report by Thomas Henry Huxley, on a paper 'On the structure and development of the skull in the salmon' by William Kitchen Parker31 October 1872
MC/14/61Letter from James Croll, Strathaven, to [Thomas Henry] Huxley, President of the Royal Society4 July 1885
MC/10/223Letter from Geo [George] Howes, 5 Larkhall Lane, Clapham, to Professor [Thomas Henry] Huxley, [Secretary of the Royal Society], South Kensington Museum17 February 1875
PT/71/1/10Plate, dorsal view of pseudoembryo by [Edwin M Williams]December 1862
MC/13/116Letter from T [Thomas] Wharton Jones, Ventnor, Isle of Wight, to [Thomas Henry Huxley], President of the Royal Society and to the Council9 December 1884
MS/427/286Copy letter from [Michael] Foster, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Principal Librarian, British Museum5 July 1883
MS/427/360Copy letter from [Michael] Foster, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Right Hon. Hugh L. Childers, Chancellor of the Exchequer[3] May 1884
MS/427/430Copy letter from [Thomas Henry] Huxley, President of the Royal Society; to the Astronomer Royal [William Henry Mahoney Christie]23 May 1885
MS/427/157Copy letter from Walter White, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir [Ralph Robert Wheeler] Lingen, Treasury24 January 1882
MC/10/205Letter from W H [William Henry] Flower, Royal College of Surgeons of England, Lincoln's Inn Fields, to [Thomas Henry] Huxley, [Secretary of the Royal Society]25 January 1875
MS/426/540Note of a letter from [the Secretaries of] the Royal Society; to various individuals8 May 1855
MS/769/42Letter from Thomas Henry Huxley, The Royal Society, Burlington House, London, to [Walter] White15 October 1873 [?]
EC/1851/10Huxley, Thomas Henry: certificate of election to the Royal Society
MM/9/15Letter from T H Huxley, 3 Jevington Gardens, Eastbourne, to Sir John Evans24 February 1890
MM/9/11Letter from T H Huxley, 4 Marlborough Place, Abbey Road, London, to Sir John Evans18 June 1887
MM/16/54Letter from T H Huxley, Marlborough Place, to George Gabriel Stokes14 July 1881
DM/7/84Letter from North and South West Junction Railway Company to T H Huxley, Secretary, Royal Society11 November 1879
MS/843/4Letter from Thomas Henry Huxley, 14 Waverley Place, St John's Wood, to William Sharpey16 June 1857
NLB/1/498Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Willliam Thomas Blanford, Professor Thomas George Bonney, Dr Geikie, Professor Thomas Henry Huxley, and Professor John Wesley Judd8 July 1887
NLB/3/254Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Michael Foster24 April 1889
NLB/5/138Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, [Fellow of the Royal Society]2 April 1891
NLB/8/664Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to the Right Honorable Professor Thomas Henry Huxley, Fellow of the Royal Society5 December 1893
NLB/11/459Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Mrs Thomas Henry Huxley5 July 1895
PT/71/1/4Plate, ovary and ova in various stages of development by [Edwin M Williams]December 1862
PT/71/1/5Plate, vesicles of evolution and spermatozoa by [Edwin M Williams]December 1862
RR/6/158Referee's report by Thomas Henry Huxley, on a paper 'On the phenomena observed to attend the propulsion of lymph from one of the lymphatic hearts into a vein in the frog' by Thomas Wharton Jonesnd [1868]
RR/8/145Letter from William Turner, to Thomas Henry Huxley, regarding a paper 'On the placentation of the Apes, with a comparison of the structure of their placenta with that of the human female' by William Turner27 March 1878
RR/10/67Referee's report by Thomas Henry Huxley, on a paper 'On the morphology of birds' by William Kitchen Parker15 March 1887
PT/71/1/17Plate, pentacrinoid larva after separation of oral valves by [Edwin M Williams][1862]
IM/002348Huxley, Thomas Henry19 August 1889
IM/002353Huxley, Thomas Henry1999
MC/13/98Letter from R R W [Ralph Robert Wheeler] Lingen, Treasury Chambers, to [Thomas Henry] Huxley, President of the Royal Society10 October 1884
RR/6/18Referee's report by Thomas Henry Huxley, on a paper 'On the anatomy and physiology of the nematoids, parasitic and free; with observations on their zoological position and affinities to the echinoderms' by Henry Charlton Bastian13 April 1866
RR/8/285Referee's report by Thomas Henry Huxley, on a paper 'On the results of recent explorations of erect trees containing animal remains in the coal-formation of Nova Scotia' by John William Dawson13 October 1881
RR/10/81Referee's report by Thomas Henry Huxley, on a paper 'Researches on the structure, organization, and classification of the fossil reptilia. - I. On Protoronsaurus speneri (von Meyer)' by Harry Govier Seeley11 March 1887
RR/10/86Referee's report by Thomas Henry Huxley, on a paper 'Researches on the structure, organization, and classification of the fossil reptilia.—III. On parts of the skeleton of a mammal from Triassic rocks of Klipfontein, Fraserberg, South Africa (Theriodesmus phylarchus, Seeley), illustrating the reptilian inheritance in the mammalian hand' by Harry Govier Seeley11 November 1887
RR/8/322Letter from William Spottiswoode, to Thomas Henry Huxley, regarding a paper 'On toroidal functions' by William Mitchinson Hicks23 July 1881
PT/58/2/4Plate, boxwood and brass apparatus used for testing effect of pressure on form of ice by unknown artist[1857]
PT/64/14/13Plate, vomer and ethmoid of lamb by J [John] Cleland[1861]
PT/42/11iPaper, 'Observations upon appendicularia and doliolum - two genera of the tunicata' by Thos [Thomas Henry] Huxley [1851]
RR/2/112Referee's report by Edward Forbes and Thomas Bell, on a paper 'Observations upon the anatomy and physiology of Salpa and Pyrosoma' by Thomas Henry Huxley22 August 1851
PT/36/6Paper, 'On the anatomy and the affinities of the family of the medusæ' by Thomas Henry Huxley[1849]
MC/12/148Letter from T H [Thomas Henry] Huxley, [Secretary of the Royal Society], South Kensington, to W [William] Spottiswoode, President of the Royal Society15 February 1881
RR/3/39Referee's report by Thomas Henry Huxley, on a paper 'Researches on the foraminifera' by William Benjamin Carpenter9 July 1856
MC/11/203Copy letter from [Thomas Henry Huxley], [Secretary of the Royal Society], 4 Marlborough Place, to [Richard] Norris25 April 1878
PT/72/5/5Plate, 'North-Atlantic foraminifera' by G West[1864]
RR/3/43Referee's report by Thomas Henry Huxley, on a paper 'Researches on the foraminifera' by William Benjamin Carpenter24 September 1858
RR/2/114Referee's report by Thomas Bell, on a paper 'On the morphology of the cephalous mollusca, as illustrated by the anatomy of certain heteropoda and pteropoda collected during the voyage of H. M. S. "Rattlesnake" in 1846-50' by Thomas Henry HuxleyAugust 1852
RR/2/140Referee's report by Thomas Henry Huxley, on a paper 'Further observations on the anatomy of Macgillivrayia, Cheletropis, and allied genera of pelagic gasteropoda' by John Denis MacDonaldnd [1855]
RR/3/37Referee's report by Thomas Henry Huxley, on a paper 'Researches on the foraminifera' by William Benjamin Carpenter21 July 1855
PT/58/2/8Plate, trough used for testing ice lamination produced from mutual thrust of confluent glaciers by unknown artist[1857]
PT/58/2/6Plate, ice separated perpendicularly to lamination of glacier by unknown artist[1857]
PT/58/2Paper, 'On the structure and motion of glaciers' by John Tyndall and T H [Thomas Henry] HuxleyJanuary 1857
PT/58/2/5Plate, boxwood used for testing the viscous flow of glaciers by unknown artist[1857]
PT/58/2/7Plate, wooden trough representing principal accidents of glacial valley by unknown artist[1857]
PT/58/2/3Plate, seasoned boxwood used for testing effect of pressure on form of ice by unknown artist[1857]
PT/58/2/1Manuscript, 'On the structure and motion of glaciers' by John Tyndall and T H [Thomas Henry] HuxleyJanuary 1857
PT/64/14/14Plate, 'Intermaxillaries of the sheep' by J [John] Cleland[1861]
PT/58/2/2Plate, specimen of ice near Heisseplatte on Lower Grindelwald glacier by unknown artist[1857]
PT/58/2/12Plate, mud in trough representing a narrow gorge by unknown artist[1857]
PT/58/2/11Plate, trough representing a narrow gorge by unknown artist[1857]
PT/58/2/9Plate, trough representing glacier and upper basin of the Rhône by unknown artist[1857]
PT/58/2/10Plate, disposition of trough representing glacier and upper basin of the Rhône by unknown artist[1857]
PT/64/14/8Plate, 'Bones from the cat' by J [John] Cleland[1861]
PT/64/14/7Plate, posterior extremity of vomer by J [John] Cleland[1861]
PT/64/14/26Plate, 'Section of skull of Delphinus orca' by J [John] Cleland[1861]
PT/64/14/25Plate, 'Part of the skull of a dugong' by J [John] Cleland[1861]
PT/64/14/28Plate, 'Diagram of the two most anterior segments of the mammalian skull' by J [John] Cleland[1861]
PT/64/14/22Plate, 'Part of the skull of cœlogenys' by J [John] Cleland[1861]
PT/64/14/18Plate, 'Section of the fore part of the skull of a horse' by J [John] Cleland[1861]
PT/64/14/27Plate, 'Section of skull of Delphinus globiceps from above' by J [John] Cleland[1861]
PT/64/14/4Plate, 'Bones from specimen referred to in the text as no. 3' by J [John] Cleland[1861]
PT/64/14/24Plate, 'Part of the skull of a kangaroo' by J [John] Cleland[1861]
PT/64/14/23Plate, articulations of vomer in rabbit by J [John] Cleland[1861]
PT/64/14/15Plate, 'Intermaxillaries of the alpaca' by J [John] Cleland[1861]
PT/64/14/9Plate, 'Vomer and ethmoid of the fox' by J [John] Cleland[1861]
PT/64/14/10Plate, 'Intermaxillaries of Ursus maritimus' by J [John] Cleland[1861]
PT/64/14/1Manuscript, 'On the relations of the vomer, ethmoid, and intermaxillary bones' by John Cleland[1861]
PT/64/14/12Plate, 'Part of a hedgehog's skull' by J [John] Cleland[1861]
PT/64/14/6Plate, diagram of vomer, ethmoid, and sphenoidal spongy bones by J [John] Cleland[1861]
RR/4/217Referee's report by Thomas Henry Huxley, on a paper 'On the aquiferous and oviducal system in the Lamellibranchiate mollusks' by George Rolleston and C Robertson22 June 1859
PT/64/14/3Plate, 'Bones from specimen referred to in the text as no. 2' by J [John] Cleland[1861]
PT/64/14/11Plate, 'Vomer and ethmoid of Phoca vitulina' by J [John] Cleland[1861]
PT/64/14/32Plate, 'Diagram of the two most anterior segments of a fish's skull' by J [John] Cleland[1861]
PT/64/14/2Plate, 'Bones from specimen referred to in the text as no. 1' by J [John] Cleland[1861]
PT/64/14/17Plate, 'Part of the skull of a horse' by J [John] Cleland[1861]
PT/64/14/21Plate, 'Anterior nares of the tapir' by J [John] Cleland[1861]
PT/64/14/5Plate, vomers by J [John] Cleland[1861]
PT/64/14/19Plate, 'Vomer etc. from the skull of a sucking pig' by J [John] Cleland[1861]
PT/64/14/20Plate, 'Vomer etc. of a young elephant' by J [John] Cleland[1861]
PT/64/14/29Plate, 'Vomer and palatals of a duck, viewed from above' by J [John] Cleland[1861]
PT/64/14/31Plate, intermaxillary and vomer of python and nasal and vomer of Malapterurus by J [John] Cleland[1861]
PT/64/14/30Plate, 'Section of the skull of a cod' by J [John] Cleland[1861]
PT/71/1/2Plate, drafts of Comatula rosacea anatomy by [Charles Thomas Wyville Thomson?][1862]
PT/71/1/3Plate, uncompressed pseudoembryo by [Edwin M Williams][1862]
RR/5/123Referee's report by Hugh Falconer, on a paper 'On the osteology of the genus glyptodon' by Thomas Henry Huxley2 May 1864
PT/71/1/16Plate, pseudoembryo losing organs of assimilation and locomotion by [Edwin M Williams]December 1862
PT/71/1/1Manuscript, 'On the embryogeny of Antedon rosaceus (Lincks) (Comatula rosacea of Lamarck)' by Professor [Charles Thomas] Wyville Thomson[1862]
PT/42/11Paper, 'Observations upon the anatomy and physiology of salpa and pyrosoma' by Thomas Henry Huxley[1851]
PT/71/1/13Plate, dorsal aspect of pseudoembryo by [Edwin M Williams]December 1862
PT/71/1/8Plate, development of pseudoembryo by [Edwin M Williams]December 1862
PT/71/1/9Plate, dorsal and ventral aspects of pseudoembryo by [Edwin M Williams]December 1862
PT/71/1/6Plate, egg after impregnation and yolk segmentation by [Edwin M Williams]December 1862
PT/71/1/14Plate, pseudoembryo losing organs of assimilation and locomotion by [Edwin M Williams]December 1862
PT/72/5/1Manuscript, 'On some foraminifera from the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, including Davis's Straits and Baffin's Bay' by W [William] Kitchen Parker and T [Thomas] Rupert Jones[1864]
PT/71/1/20Plate, enlarged end of extending arm of pentacrinoid larva by [Edwin M Williams][1862]
PT/72/5/3Plate, 'Arctic foraminifera' by G West[1864]
PT/72/5/7Plate, 'Arctic foraminifera' by G West[1864]
PT/72/5/8Plate, 'Arctic foraminifera' by G West[1864]
PT/71/1/15Plate, pseudoembryo losing organs of assimilation and locomotion by [Edwin M Williams]December 1862
PT/72/5/10Plate, 'Foraminifera of the North Atlantic' by G West[1864]
PP/1/18Paper, 'On the Trichophyton tonsurans (the fungus of ringworm)' by George Thin1881
PT/72/5/9Plate, 'Arctic foraminifera' by G West[1864]
RR/6/157Referee's report by Thomas Henry Huxley, on a paper 'The caudal heart of the eel a lymphatic heart.—Effect of the force with which the lymph-stream is propelled therefrom on the flow of the blood in the vein into which the heart opens.— Explanation of the appearance of blood propelled in successive drops, as if from the heart, along the caudal vein.—Influence which the force of the lymph-stream from the heart exerts in accelerating and promoting the flow of blood in the caudal vein' by Thomas Wharton Jones20 March 1868
AP/57/2Unpublished paper, 'Preliminary observations on the locomotion system of Medusae' by G J [George John] Romanes1875
RR/8/249Letter from Thomas Henry Huxley, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper [attributed] 'On the structure and development of the skull in sturgeons (Acipenser ruthenus and A. sturio)' by William Kitchen Parker30 July 1880
MC/8/346Letter from members of the Athenaeum Club to the Secretary of the Royal Society8 April 1869
MC/10/134Letter from J [John] Winter Jones, British Museum, to Professor [Thomas Henry] Huxley, Secretary of the Royal Society25 June 1874
MC/10/289Letter from T E [Thomas Edward] Thorpe, Yorkshire College of Science, Leeds, to Professor T H [Thomas Henry] Huxley, [Secretary of the Royal Society]15 October 1875
MC/11/48Letter from Lyon Playfair to [Thomas Henry] Huxley, [Secretary of the Royal Society]17 April 1877
MC/9/492Letter from James Jago, Lemon House, Truro, Cornwall, to [Thomas Henry Huxley and George Gabriel Stokes], Secretaries of the Royal Society12 February 1873
MC/9/484Letter from H [Henry] Charlton Bastian, 20 Queen Anne Street, to Professor [Thomas Henry] Huxley, Secretary of the Royal Society31 January 1873
MC/9/545Draft letter from T H [Thomas Henry] Huxley, [Secretary of the Royal Society], Burlington House, London, to Dr [Henry Charlton] Bastian5 May 1873
MC/9/543Letter from H [Henry] Charlton Bastian, 20 Queen Anne Street, to Professor [Thomas Henry] Huxley, Secretary of the Royal Society2 May 1873
MC/9/551Letter from H [Henry] Charlton Bastian, 81 Avenue Road, to Professor [Thomas Henry] Huxley, Secretary of the Royal Society11 May 1873
MC/9/522Letter from B W [Benjamin Ward] Richardson, 12 Hinde Street, to Professor [Thomas Henry] Huxley, [Secretary of the Royal Society]21 March 1873
MC/9/540Letter from David Ferrier, 23 Somerset Street, Portman Square, to Professor [Thomas Henry] Huxley, Secretary of the Royal Society29 April 1873
MC/9/555Letter from H [Henry] Charlton Bastian, 20 Queen Anne Street, to Professor [Thomas Henry] Huxley, Secretary of the Royal Society18 May 1873
MC/9/563Letter from H W [Henry Walter] Bates, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Geographical Society, 1 Savile Row, Burlington Gardens, to Professor T H [Thomas Henry] Huxley, Secretary of the Royal Society24 May 1873
MC/9/569Letter from W A Ploss [?], Shooter's Hill, Kent, to Professor [Thomas Henry] Huxley, [Secretary of the Royal Society], Burlington House25 May 1873
MC/9/587Draft letter from T H [Thomas Henry] Huxley, [Secretary of the Royal Society], Burlington House, London, to Dr [Henry Charlton] Bastian19 June 1873
MC/9/557Letter from H [Henry] Charlton Bastian, 20 Queen Anne Street, to Professor [Thomas Henry] Huxley, Secretary of the Royal Society19 May 1873
MC/9/553Letter from H [Henry] Charlton Bastian, 20 Queen Anne Street, to Professor [Thomas Henry] Huxley, Secretary of the Royal Society14 May 1873
MC/9Volume 9 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1870-June 1873
MC/10/8Letter from J F [John Francis] Tennant, Lieutenant-Colonel Royal Engineers, Roorkee, North West Provinces, to [Thomas Henry Huxley and George Gabriel Stokes], Secretaries of the Royal Society23 September 1873
MC/10/75Letter from David Ferrier, 23 Somerset Street, Portman Square, to Professor [Thomas Henry] Huxley, Secretary of the Royal Society20 February 1874
MC/10/94Letter from J B [John Burdon] Sanderson, 49 Queen Anne Street, to [Thomas Henry] Huxley, [Secretary of the Royal Society]26 March 1874
MC/10/97Letter from David Ferrier, 23 Somerset Street, Portman Square, to Professor [Thomas Henry] Huxley, Secretary of the Royal Society20 April 1874
MC/10/91Letter from J [Joseph] Prestwich, Shoreham near Sevenoaks, to [Thomas Henry] Huxley, [Secretary of the Royal Society]18 March 1874
MC/10/121Letter from Chas W [Charles Wilson] Vincent, Royal Institution, Albemarle Street, to Professor T H [Thomas Henry] Huxley, [Secretary of the Royal Society]9 June 1874
MC/10/128Letter from J B [John Burdon] Sanderson, University College London, to [Thomas Henry Huxley and George Gabriel Stokes], Secretaries of the Royal Society18 June 1874
MC/10/123Letter from W S Dallas, Assistant Secretary of the Geological Society, Geological Society, Somerset House, to Professor T H [Thomas Henry] Huxley, [Secretary of the Royal Society]12 June 1874
MC/10/176Letter from T [Thomas] Rupert Jones, 5 College Terrace, Yorktown, Surrey, to Professor [Thomas Henry] Huxley, [Secretary of the Royal Society]10 December 1874
MC/10/167Letter from A H Saurd [?], 10 Harley Street, Cavendish Square, to Professor [Thomas Henry] Huxley, [Secretary of the Royal Society]6 November 1874
MC/10/183Letter from J L M Thudichum, 3 Pembroke Road, Kensington, to Professor [Thomas Henry] Huxley, Secretary of the Royal Society25 December 1874
MC/10/199Letter from P L [Philip Lutley] Sclater, Zoological Society of London, 11 Hanover Square, London, to Professor [Thomas Henry] Huxley, [Secretary of the Royal Society]20 January 1875
MC/10/204Letter from Geo [George] Busk, 32 Harley Street, to [Thomas Henry] Huxley, [Secretary of the Royal Society]25 January 1875
MC/10/202Letter from Alfred Newton, 10 Beaufort Gardens, to [Thomas Henry] Huxley, [Secretary of the Royal Society]24 January 1875
MC/10/169Letter from Nichs [Nicholas] Whitley, Honorary Secretary of the Royal Institution of Cornwall, Penarth, Truro, to [George Gabriel Stokes and Thomas Henry Huxley], Secretaries of the Royal Society21 November 1874
MC/10/180Letter from Thomas Fairbairn, Bramridge House, Bishopstoke, to Professor [Thomas Henry] Huxley, [Secretary of the Royal Society]17 December 1874
MC/10/224Letter from Lewis Jackson, Royal Institution of Great Britain, to Professor [Thomas Henry] Huxley, Secretary of the Royal Society20 February 1875
MC/10/213Letter from J J [John Jeremiah] Bigsby, to Dr [Thomas Henry] Huxley, [Secretary of the Royal Society]January 1875
MC/10/320Letter from Willm B [William Benjamin] Carpenter, University of London, Burlington House, to Professor [Thomas Henry] Huxley, [Secretary of the Royal Society]16 December 1875
MC/10/296Letter from E [Edward] Klein, The Brown Institution, Wandsworth Road, to Professor [Thomas Henry] Huxley, [Secretary of the Royal Society]20 October 1875
MC/10/292Letter from J Christison, Secretary, University Court Edinburgh, Edinburgh, to the Lord President of the Council, Council Office, Whitehall, London13 October 1875
MC/10/298Letter from L A Beamish, Ashgrove, Queenstown, County Cork, to [George Gabriel Stokes and Thomas Henry Huxley], Secretaries of the Royal Society30 October 1875
MC/10/311Letter from A [Albert] Günther, Zoological Department, British Museum, to [Thomas Henry] Huxley, [Secretary of the Royal Society]1 December 1875
MC/10/307Letter from Norman MacLeod, South Kensington Museum, London, to [Thomas Henry Huxley and George Gabriel Stokes], Secretaries of the Royal Society, Burlington House27 November 1875
MC/10/291Letter from J Christison, Secretary, University Court Edinburgh, Edinburgh, to Dr [Joseph Dalton] Hooker, President of the Royal Society, London15 October 1875
MC/10/352Letter from Fredr Jn O [Frederick John Owen] Evans, Hydrographic Department, Admiralty, to Professor T H [Thomas Henry] Huxley, [Secretary of the Royal Society], Burlington House14 February 1876
MC/10/429Letter from Louis Mallet, India Office, to Professor T H [Thomas Henry] Huxley, [Secretary of the Royal Society]22 July 1876
MC/10/416Letter from William B [Benjamin] Carpenter, registrar, University of London, Burlington Gardens, to Professor [Thomas Henry] Huxley, Secretary of the Royal Society24 June 1876
MC/10/480Letter from Dr Anton Dohrn, Zoological Station, Naples, to Professor [Thomas Henry] Huxley, Secretary of the Royal Society29 December 1876
MC/10/475Letter from Walter Flight, Mineral Department, British Museum, to Professor T H [Thomas Henry] Huxley, Secretary of the Royal Society16 December 1876
MC/10Volume 10 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal SocietyJuly 1873-1876
MC/11/36Letter from W [William] Farr, General Register Office, to [Thomas Henry] Huxley, [Secretary of the Royal Society]28 March 1877
MC/10/229Letter from Francis Galton, 42 Rutland Gate, to [George Gabriel Stokes and Thomas Henry Huxley], Secretaries of the Royal Society11 March 1875
PT/72/5Paper, 'On some foraminifera from the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, including Davis's Straits and Baffin's Bay' by W [William] Kitchen Parker and T [Thomas] Rupert Jones[1864]
PT/72/5/2Plate, 'Arctic foraminifera' by G West[1864]
PT/72/5/4Plate, 'Arctic foraminifera' by G West[1864]
PT/72/5/6Plate, 'North-Atlantic foraminifera' by G West[1864]
PT/72/5/11Plate, 'Foraminifera of the North Atlantic' by G West[1864]
MC/11/69Letter from W R [William Richard] Gowers, 50 Queen Anne Street, Cavendish Square, to Thomas H [Henry] Huxley, Secretary of the Royal Society6 June 1877
MC/11/133Letter from G C [George Charles] Wallich, Surgeon-Major Retired List, HM Indian Army, Scientific Club, 7 Savile Row, to [George Gabriel Stokes and Thomas Henry Huxley], Secretaries of the Royal Society9 December 1877
MC/11/145Letter from C Bruce Allen, 274 Strand, to [George Gabriel Stokes and Thomas Henry Huxley], Secretaries of the Royal Society3 January 1878
MC/11/153Letter from T H [Thomas Henry] Huxley, Scientific and Art Department, South Kensington, to [Walter] White, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]15 January 1878
MC/11/142Letter from John Evans, Nash Mills, Hemel Hempsted, to T H [Thomas Henry] Huxley, [Secretary of the Royal Society]31 December 1877
MC/11/141Letter from G C [George Charles] Wallich, 162 Holland Road, Kensington, to Sir Joseph [Dalton] Hooker, President of the Royal Society28 December 1877
AP/68/5Unpublished paper, 'On the alimentary canal of Pontia brassicae' by A B Griffiths1892
AP/60/4Unpublished paper, 'Experimental researches on the temperature of the head' by J S Lombard1878
AP/63/3Unpublished paper, 'On the structure and functions of the human corpus callosum' by D J [David James] Hamilton1884
MC/11/194Letter from J J [John Jeremiah] Bigsby, 89 Gloucester Place, [Portman] Square, to [Thomas Henry Huxley and George Gabriel Stokes], Secretaries of the Royal Society30 March 1878
MC/11/181Letter from Norman MacLeod, Science and Art Department, London, to [Thomas Henry Huxley and George Gabriel Stokes], Secretaries of the Royal Society, Burlington House9 March 1878
MC/12/73Letter from R R W [Ralph Robert Wheeler] Lingen, Treasury Chambers, to Professor [Thomas Henry] Huxley, Secretary of the Royal Society, Burlington House23 June 1880
MC/11/263Letter from J F [James Francis] Tennant, Colonel Royal Engineers, HM Mint, Calcutta, to [Thomas Henry Huxley and George Gabriel Stokes], Secretaries of the Royal Society1 November 1878
MC/11/314Letter from A [Albert] Günther, British Museum, to [Thomas Henry] Huxley, [Secretary of the Royal Society]26 February 1879
MC/11/317Letter from Joseph Radford, Secretary and Librarian, St Margaret and St John Westminster, Free Public Library, 23 Great Smith Street, to [Thomas Henry Huxley and George Gabriel Stokes], Secretaries of the Royal Society6 March 1879
MC/11/318Letter from William Thomson, The University Glasgow, to [Thomas Henry Huxley and George Gabriel Stokes], Secretaries of the Royal Society10 March 1879
MC/11/385Letter from Alex [Alexander] Crum Brown, University of Edinburgh, to [Thomas Henry Huxley and George Gabriel Stokes], Secretaries of the Royal Society, Burlington House, London16 June 1879
MC/11/362Letter from G J [George James] Symons, Secretary of the Meteorological Society, 30 Great George Street, Westminster, to [Thomas Henry Huxley and George Gabriel Stokes], Secretaries of the Royal Society19 May 1879
AP/36/23Paper, 'Contributions to the anatomy of the Brachiopoda' by T H [Thomas Henry] Huxley1854
RR/3/191Referee's report by Thomas Henry Huxley, on two papers, 'Observations on the anatomy and affinities of the Phyllirrhoë bucephala' and 'Brief sketch of the anatomy of a new genus of pelagic gasteropoda, named Jasonilla' by John Denis MacDonald1856
MC/11/401Letter from Nicholas Wagner, 32 Bedford Square, Gower Street, London, to Thom [Thomas Henry] Huxley, [Secretary of the Royal Society]15 July 1879
MC/11/415Letter from W T [William Turner] Thiselton Dyer, Royal Gardens, Kew, to [Thomas Henry Huxley and George Gabriel Stokes], Secretaries of the Royal Society1 September 1879
MC/11/455Letter from Walter W [Waters] Reeves, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Microscopial Society, King's College, to [Thomas Henry Huxley and George Gabriel Stokes], Secretaries of the Royal Society31 December 1879
MC/11/447Letter from Wm [William] Pengelly, Lamorna, Torquay, to [Thomas Henry Huxley and George Gabriel Stokes], Secretaries of the Royal Society, London28 November 1879
MC/11Volume 11 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1877-1879
MC/12/12Letter from Arthur Gamgee, The Owens College, Manchester, to Professor [Thomas Henry] Huxley, [Secretary of the Royal Society]2 February 1880
MC/12/26Letter from G G [George Gabriel] Stokes, [Secretary of the Royal Society], Lensfield Cottage, Cambridge, to [Thomas Henry] Huxley, [Secretary of the Royal Society]25 March 1880
MC/12/51Letter from W C [William Crawford] Williamson, Fallowfield, to [Thomas Henry] Huxley, [Secretary of the Royal Society]2 June 1880
MC/12/38Letter from R [Robert] Angus Smith, Local Government Board Whitehall, Manchester, to [Thomas Henry Huxley and George Gabriel Stokes], Secretaries of the Royal Society15 April 1880
MC/12/47Letter from T H [Thomas Henry] Huxley, Secretary of the Royal Society, Burlington House, London, to Professor [George Downing] Liveing and Professor [James] Dewar21 May 1880
MC/12/86Letter from T H [Thomas Henry] Huxley, 4 Marlborough Place, to [Walter] White, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]28 July 1880
MC/12/80Letter from C [Charles] Wyville Thomson, Bonsyde, Linlithgow, North Britain, to [Thomas Henry] Huxley, [Secretary of the Royal Society]15 July 1880
MC/12/85Letter from E [Edwin] Ray Lankester, Savile Club, 15 Savile Row, to Professor [Thomas Henry] Huxley, [Secretary of the Royal Society]29 July 1880
MC/12/84Letter from E [Edwin] Ray Lankester, Savile Club, 15 Savile Row, to Professor [Thomas Henry] Huxley, [Secretary of the Royal Society]26 July 1880
MC/12/81Letter from T H [Thomas Henry] Huxley, Science and Art Department South Kensington, to [William] Spottiswoode, [President of the Royal Society]17 July 1880
MC/12/107Letter from J [James] Emerson Reynolds, Trinity College, Dublin, to [Thomas Henry Huxley and George Gabriel Stokes], Secretaries of the Royal Society, London1 November 1880
MC/12/136Letter from J W [John Whitaker] Hulke, 10 Old Burlington Street, to Professor [Thomas Henry] Huxley, [Secretary of the Royal Society]28 December 1880
MC/12/144Letter from E J Arens, 23 York Place, Baker Street, to T H [Thomas Henry] Huxley, [Secretary of the Royal Society]24 January 1881
MC/12/150Letter from John B [Berry] Haycraft, University of Edinburgh, to Professor [Thomas Henry] Huxley, [Secretary of the Royal Society]7 March 1881
MC/12/127Letter from Robert H [Henry] Scott, Meteorological Office, 116 Victoria Street, London, to Professor T H [Thomas Henry] Huxley, Secretary of the Royal Society1 December 1880
MC/12/160Letter from Wm [William] Stirling, The University, Aberdeen, to Professor [Thomas Henry] Huxley, [Secretary of the Royal Society]19 April 1881
MC/12/168Letter from John D [Denis] Macdonald, Alexandra Villa, [?], West Cowes, Isle of Wight, to [Thomas Henry] Huxley, [Secretary of the Royal Society]6 June 1881
MC/12/153Letter from H E [Henry Enfield] Roscoe, The Owens College, Manchester, to [Thomas Henry] Huxley, [Secretary of the Royal Society]12 March 1881
MC/12/173Letter from G G [George Gabriel] Stokes, [Secretary of the Royal Society], Lensfield Cottage, Cambridge, to [Thomas Henry] Huxley, [Secretary of the Royal Society]9 June 1881
MC/12/186Letter from T H [Thomas Henry] Huxley, [Secretary of the Royal Society], 4 Marlborough Place, Abbey Road, to [Walter] White, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]30 June 1881
MC/12/362Letter from Leonard Courtney, Treasury Chambers, to [Thomas Henry Huxley], President of the Royal Society3 December 1883
MC/12/217Letter from T H [Thomas Henry] Huxley, 4 Marlborough Place, Abbey Road, to [Walter] White, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]6 November 1881
MC/12/211Letter from M [Michael] Foster, Shelford, Cambridgeshire, to [Thomas Henry] Huxley, [Secretary of the Royal Society]30 October 1881
MC/12/229Letter from James H Cropman [?], Reform Club, Pall Mall, to Professor [Thomas Henry] Huxley 21 December 1881
AP/43/6/1Manuscript, 'Histoire naturelle de la pourpre de anciens' [Natural history of the purple of the ancients] by [Henri de] Lacaze-Duthiers1860
MC/12/276Letter from P H [Philip Henry] Gosse, Sandhurst, Torquay, to Professor [Thomas Henry] Huxley, Secretary of the Royal Society10 October 1881
RR/3/119Referee's report by Thomas Henry Huxley, on a paper 'Researches on the poison-apparatus in the actiniadae' by Philip Henry Gosse1858
MC/12/351Letter from James W Allison, 55 Gore Road, South Hackney, to [Thomas Henry Huxley], President of the Royal Society, and to the Fellows22 August 1883
MC/12/363Letter from Abria, Faculty of Science, Academy of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, to [Thomas Henry Huxley], President of the Royal Society4 December 1883
MC/12/365Letter from T H [Thomas Henry] Huxley, [President of the Royal Society], to [Walter] White, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]7 November 1883
MC/12/374Letter from C de Byland, Dutch Legation, London, to Professor T H [Thomas Henry] Huxley, President of the Royal Society29 November 1883
MC/12/373Letter from Leonard Courtney, Treasury Chambers, to [Thomas Henry Huxley], President of the Royal Society21 December 1883
MC/12Volume 12 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1880-1883
MC/13/5Letter from Lord Carnarvon, Highclere Castle, Newbury, to [Thomas Henry] Huxley, [President of the Royal Society]17 January 1884
MC/13/8Letter from Jos D [Joseph Dalton] Hooker and Henry N [Nottidge] Moseley, Royal Gardens, Kew, to [Thomas Henry Huxley], President of the Royal Society23 January 1884
MC/13/21Letter from Richd [Richard] Owen, Sheen Lodge, Richmond Park, to [Thomas Henry Huxley], President of the Royal Society and to the Council28 February 1884
MC/13/88Letter from W von Robert, Captain, Kapellenstrasse 37, Wiesbaden, to [Thomas Henry Huxley], President of the Royal Society22 August 1884
MC/13/32Letter from R C Welly [?], Treasury Chambers, to [Thomas Henry Huxley], President of the Royal Society20 March 1884
MC/13/35Letter from G B [George Biddell] Airy, The White House, Greenwich, to Professor [Thomas Henry] Huxley, President of the Royal Society24 March 1884
MC/13/48Letter from D C [Daniel Coit] Gilman, President of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, to Professor T H [Thomas Henry] Huxley, President of the Royal Society5 May 1884
MC/13/3Letter from J W [John William] Dawson, Cairo, to [Thomas Henry] Huxley, [President of the Royal Society]14 January 1884
MC/13/6Letter from Leonard Courtney, Treasury Chambers, to [Thomas Henry Huxley], President of the Royal Society, Burlington House 17 January 1884
MC/13/31Letter from G W Underhill, Secretary to the Board of Visitors, Hydrographic Department, Admiralty, to Professor [Thomas Henry] Huxley, President of the Royal Society, Chairman of the Board of Visitors of the Royal Observatory18 March 1884
MC/13/33Letter from G G [George Gabriel] Stokes, [Secretary of the Royal Society], Lensfield Cottage, Cambridge, to [Thomas Henry] Huxley, [President of the Royal Society]21 March 1884
MC/13/70Letter from Joseph Prestwich, 35 St Giles', Oxford, to [Thomas Henry] Huxley, [President of the Royal Society]17 June 1884
MC/13/59Letter from G W Underhill, Secretary to the Board of Visitors, Hydrographic Department, Admiralty, Whitehall, to Professor T H [Thomas Henry] Huxley, Chairman of the Board of Visitors13 June 1884
MC/13/84Letter from Evan MacGregor, Admiralty, to [Thomas Henry Huxley], President of the Royal Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly5 August 1884
MC/13/94Letter from Rd [Reginald] Welby, Treasury Chambers, to [Thomas Henry Huxley], President of the Royal Society23 September 1884
MC/13/108Letter from Sir Herbert Sandford, 6 Lansdowne Road, Wimbledon, to Professor [Thomas Henry] Huxley, [President of the Royal Society]14 November 1884
MC/13/115Letter from A [Alfred] Cornu, Paris, to [Thomas Henry Huxley], President of the Royal Society, London9 December 1884
MC/13/102Letter from Robt [Robert] Murray Smith, 8 Victoria Chambers, Victoria Street, Westminster, to [Thomas Henry Huxley], President of the Royal Society23 October 1884
MC/13/104Letter from Rob L J [Robert Lewis John] Ellery, President of the Royal Society of Victoria, Australia, Observatory Melbourne, to [Thomas Henry Huxley], President of the Royal Society, London1 November 1884
MC/13/109Letter from John R [Robinson] Whitley, Director-General & Executive Commissioner, City Offices, 7 Poultry, London, to Professor Thos H [Thomas Henry] Huxley, President of the Royal Society15 November 1884
MC/13Volume 13 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1884
MC/12/346Letter from J [John] Pope Hennessy, Governor, Government House, Mauritius, to [Thomas Henry Huxley], President of the Royal Society11 July 1883
MC/13/34Letter from G W Underhill, Secretary to the Board of Visitors, Hydrographic Department, Admiralty, to Professor [Thomas Henry] Huxley, President of the Royal Society, Chairman of the Board of Visitors of the Royal Observatory24 March 1884
MC/13/38Letter from P L [Philip Lutley] Sclater, Secretary, Zoological Society of London, 11 Hanover Square, London, to [Thomas Henry] Huxley, President of the Royal Society31 March 1884
MC/11/444Letter from Wm [William] Pengelly, Lamorna, Torquay, to [Thomas Henry Huxley and George Gabriel Stokes], Secretaries of the Royal Society, London25 November 1879
MS/427/36Copy letter from [Thomas Henry] Huxley, Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Secretary, Treasury18 June 1880
MC/12/375Letter from Leonard Courtney, Treasury Chambers, to [Thomas Henry Huxley], President of the Royal Society, Burlington House31 December 1883
MC/12/209Letter from Colonel J F D [John Fretcheville Dykes] Donnelly, Science and Art Department, London, to [Thomas Henry Huxley and George Gabriel Stokes], Secretaries of the Royal Society, Burlington House21 October 1881
RR/4/96Referee's report by Thomas Henry Huxley, on a paper 'On the posterior lobes of the cerebrum of the quadrumana' by William Henry Flower29 October 1861
AP/49/2Unpublished paper, 'On Ovibos moschatus (Blainville)' by W [William] Boyd Dawkins1865-1867
AP/49/2/1Unpublished manuscript, 'On Ovibos moschatus (Blainville)' by W [William] Boyd Dawkins1857
RR/6/195Letter from Thomas Henry Huxley, to George Gabriel Stokes, regarding a paper 'On the genera heterophyllia, battersbyia, palæcyclus, and asterosmilia; the anatomy of their species, and their position in the classification of sclerodermic zoantharia' by Peter Martin Duncan21 October 1867
AP/55/9Unpublished letter, regarding 'Being an elementary contribution to the study of monocular and binocular vision' from James Jago to T H [Thomas Henry] Huxley11 March 1873
AP/58/5Unpublished paper, 'The organ of Corti in mammals' by Urban Pritchard18 January 1876
AP/57/5Unpublished paper, 'On the anatomy of the connective tissues' by G Thin1874
AP/57/5/1Unpublished manuscript, 'On the anatomy of the connective tissues' by G Thin23 December 1874
MC/8Volume 8 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1867-1869
AP/57/2/1Unpublished manuscript, 'Preliminary observations on the locomotion system of Medusae' by G J [George John] Romanes1875
AP/57/6Unpublished paper, 'On traumatic inflammation of connective tissue' by G [George] Thin1874
AP/60/19/1Unpublished manuscript, 'About some general laws of animal life' by Nicholas [Nikolai] Wagner1879
AP/60/19Unpublished paper, 'About some general laws of animal life' by Nicholas [Nikolai] Wagner1879
AP/65/3Unpublished paper, 'On some new and typical micro-organisms obtained from water and soil' by Grace C [Coleridge] Frankland and Percy F [Faraday] Frankland1888
AP/68/5/1Unpublished manuscript, 'On the alimentary canal of Pontia brassicae' by A B Griffiths1892
AP/69/1Unpublished paper, 'On the colour of leaves of plants and their autumnal changes' by Arthur Hill Hassall1892
PP/1/19Paper, 'On Bacterium decalvans: an organism associated with the destruction of the hair in alopecia areata' by George Thin1881
PP/1/19/1Manuscript, 'On Bacterium decalvans: an organism associated with the destruction of the hair in alopecia areata' by George Thin1881
PP/1/18/2Figures, Trichophyton tonsurans by George Thin1881
PP/1/19/2Figures, Bacterium decalvans by George Thin1881
PP/1/30Paper, 'A contribution to the pathology of the epidemic known as the "Salmon disease"' by T H [Thomas Henry] Huxley1882
PP/2/20Paper, 'On the development of the enamel of the teeth of vertebrates' by E [Emily] Nunn1882
PP/2/20/1Manuscript, 'On the development of the enamel of the teeth of vertebrates' by E [Emily] Nunn1882
PP/2/20/2Figures, 'On the development of the enamel of the teeth of vertebrates' by E [Emily] Nunn1882
PP/4/40Paper, 'On the natural and artificial fertilisation of herring ova' by J [James] Cossar Ewart1884
PP/6/9/1Manuscript, 'On the marsupial ovum, the mammary pouch, and the male milk glands of Echidna hystrix' by Wilhelm Haacke22 September 1884
PP/5/30Paper, 'President's Address' by the Treasurer of the Royal Society1884
PP/6/9Paper, 'On the marsupial ovum, the mammary pouch, and the male milk glands of Echidna hystrix' by Wilhelm Haacke22 September 1884
PP/10/30Paper, 'Preliminary note on the fossil remains of a Chelonian reptile, Ceratochelys sthenurus [Meiolania], from Lord Howe's Island, Australia' by Thomas H [Henry] Huxley1887
PP/14/10Paper, 'On the early development of Lepidosteus osseus [Lepisosteus osseus, longnose gar]' by J Beard1889
PT/64/14Paper, 'On the relations of the vomer, ethmoid, and intermaxillary bones' by John Cleland[1861]
PT/71/1Paper, 'On the embryogeny of Antedon rosaceus (Lincks) (Comatula rosacea of Lamarck)' by Professor [Charles Thomas] Wyville Thomson[1862]
RR/2/195Referee's report by Thomas Henry Huxley, on a paper 'The physical theory of muscular contraction' by Charles Bland Radcliffe1853
RR/5/124Referee's report by George Busk, on a paper 'On the osteology of the genus glyptodon' by Thomas Henry Huxley20 May 1864
RR/5/173Referee's report by Thomas Henry Huxley, on a paper 'On the structure and development of the skull in the ostrich tribe' by William Kitchen Parker6 December 1865
RR/9/282Memorandum by George Gabriel Stokes, Thomas Henry Huxley, Michael Foster and John Evans, on a paper 'On beds of sponge-remains in the lower and upper greensand of the South of England' by George Jennings Hinde 1885
MC/14/66Letter from [George Gabriel] Stokes, Meteorological Office, London, to [Thomas Henry] Huxley15 July 1885
MC/14/347Letter from [Thomas Henry] Huxley, to the Secretary of the Royal Society2 October 1888
PP/1/18/1Manuscript, 'On the Trichophyton tonsurans (the fungus of ringworm)' by George Thin1881
NLB/2/917Copy letter from [Michael Foster], to [John James Hornby] the Provost of Eton, The Lodge, Eton College22 December 1888
MC/14/64Letter from [George Gabriel] Stokes, Lensfield Cottage, Cambridge, to [Thomas Henry] Huxley13 July 1885
MC/14/11Letter from The Fine Art Society, to Walter White28 January 1885
MC/14/57Letter from Sir William Henry Flower, British Museum, South Kensington, to [Thomas Henry] Huxley30 June 1885
MC/14/65Letter from [George Gabriel] Stokes, Lensfield Cottage, Cambridge, to [Thomas Henry] Huxley15 July 1885
MC/14/59Letter from Warren de la Rue, Portland Place, to [Thomas Henry] Huxley1 July 1885
MC/14Volume 14 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1885-1888
MC/16Volume 16 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1893-1896
AP/43/6Paper, 'Histoire naturelle de la pourpre de anciens' [Natural history of the purple of the ancients] by [Henri de] Lacaze-Duthiers1859-1860
MC/12/43Letter from G D [George Downing] Liveing and James Dewar, Cambridge, to Professor [Thomas Henry] Huxley, [Secretary of the Royal Society]9 May 1880
P/0076Portrait of Huxley, Thomas Henry1891
MS/426/475Copy letter from C R [Charles Richard] Weld, the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Herschel 8 November 1852
HS/10/221Letter, from Thomas Henry Huxley to Sir John Herschel, dated at Royal School of Mines9 November 1868
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