Thanks for paper on Aphis [The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley ii, 26]; sends a copy of his L'Armure genitale des Insectes; asks for information on various English scientific publications
Written in French

Exchange of publications; has not yet seen Darwin's [Origin] of which so much is talked
Written in French

Has been sent to report on a fishery and has taken the opportunity thus offered to further his own studies; offers specimens

Has left Africa owing to bad weather and returned to France; has not found much of interest to Huxley, Busk or Bowerbank; difficulties of collecting in Algeria; work of Busk and Hancock; specimens obtained
Written in France

Thanks for information; is about to set out on an expedition to complete his work
Written in French

Although he has great respect for Darwin, he cannot accept his opinions; discussion of transmutation
Written in French

Greatly regrets the rejection of the nomination of Darwin from the Academie; hopes to come to Brighton [British Association]; is at a Zoological station on the coast
Written in French

The station established on the coast is rich in marine organisms; communication with Hancock
Written in French

Death of Albany Hancock; his zoological work
Written in French

Has lectured on Huxley's researches at the Sorbonne; apparatus for dissection
Written in French

Asks for his support in seeking admission to the Zoological Section of the Academy of Sciences, but considers Darwin has a far higher claim [See MILNE-EDWARDS, H, No 5]
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Now that Darwin is a Corresponding Member of the Institute, will support Huxley's nomination for it [Huxley was elected in succession to von Baer in 1879]; has installed Patrick Geddes at Roscoff
Written in French

Complaint that Owen has forestalled him in describing Keiss skulls which were submitted to Huxley for description
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

A misunderstanding about the two societies - Ethnological and Anthropological - but giving no explanation of Owen's improper conduct

Has discussed the scheme (not specified) with Matthew Arnold who urged him to bring it before Huxley

Sends recommendations of the Committee [of the Ethnological Society] drawn up by Hyde Clarke

Suggestions at to the proposed scheme of amalgamating the Anthropological and Ethnolological Societies

Encloses letter from [P Martin] Duncan [qv] on proposed amalgamation

Has sent Huxley's letter to Duncan and will call and discuss it. Enclosed copy of his letter [18.35]

"Medieval folly and co-operation - jealousy" at Oxford; defects in the college system; lack of equipment for science teaching; other strictures; is going to Naples for four months

The Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science and a proposed merger with another journal; is working on Amphioxus; anatomical details; news from Moseley [on Challenger expedition

Collecting Echinus and eggs of Patella; a vacant chair in Manchester; asks advice about his future career

Bad equipment and accommodation at Newcastle; would like an appointment at Owen's College

An important discovery, a Medusa, Perigrinella; asks Huxley to announce it at Royal Society; wishes to establish priority

A rumour that Allman was already working on Perigrinella and that Lankester forestalled him; announced by Mivart at Royal Botanical Society; enquired of Sowerby (the Secretary) who gave him specimens; Allman to describe it at Linnean Society but news came too late to withdraw his note in Nature

Has heard from Sowerby justifying his claim to priority, but as Allman has already begun work, is writing to Nature to resign the genus in Allman's favour; regrets misunderstanding with Allman

Sends note to be appended to his paper at Royal Society

Will retain his specific name of Sowerby but adopt Allman's genus Limnocodium; regrets the unpleasantness caused; has proof that the new animal is one of the Trachomedusae; Sowerby has provided more specimens

Sends letter signed by Sowerby; all unpleasantness now at an end; Carpenter took an uncorrected proof to the Linnean Society; a breach of confidence

Huxley has misunderstood his letter; recapitulation of the history of the affair; errors in his paper at the Royal Society; wishes to withdraw it

Will hand over Bdellostoma to Huxley

Unless Huxley already intends to accept the post, he would like to apply for appointment as Fisheries Inspector; would work on Salmon disease at his laboratory in University College

Is pleased to hear that the Home Secretary is appointing Huxley Inspector of Fisheries; suggests that Huxley should urge Government to employ scientific Zoologists as advisers and researchers

Is disgusted by a paragraph in the Athenaeum on Huxley's appointment as Fisheries Inspector; is working at Amphiuma

Sends a paper on Limulus and Scorpio to be read at Royal Society and published in their Proceedings

Encloses copy of his letter to Sir William Harcourt resigning his appointment at Edinburgh, and giving full explanation

Letter to Sir William Harcourt enclosed in No 02641

Letter to the Scotsman correcting misstatements about Lankester's surrender of the Edinburgh appointment
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Has been agitating for establishment of a Marine Laboratory and observes that Huxley has advocated a Royal Fisheries Society; the Southport meeting of the British Association

Has found Brookes's Report of the Commissioners of Maryland, 1880; contains information as to oyster grounds; Dr [Rutger] Horst of Leiden Museum would send embryonic specimens

Writes as Secretary announcing Huxley's election as President of the Marine Biological Association

Gratification at being awarded Royal Medal; gratitude for the inspiration and help of Huxley in his scientific career

Treasury has made a grant to the Marine Biological Association; wishes to appoint [Walter] Heape of Cambridge Resident Superintendent

[To President of Board of Trade; copy in Huxley's handwriting]. Asks President to receive a deputation from Marine Biological Association to urge their views on ensuring a scientific character to the Fisheries Department of the Board

Sends draft letter to the Board of Trade for Huxley's approval as President

Council of Marine Biological Association has settled contracts for building; hopes Huxley will preside at annual meeting, and will lay foundation-stone

Sends draft memorandum to the Board of Trade signed by various naturalists and asks Huxley to be party if he agrees in principle with it

Has already explained fully his views on the organization of the Fishery Department, and does not wish to introduce ambiguity by signing the memorandum, lest by agreement in principle he be entrapped in approval of details which may objectionable; considers administration and scientific investigation should be kept distinct, and would oppose any scheme that combines them
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Expounds his views on "administration" and "scientific investigation", citing as instances the directorship of the Natural History Museum and Kew

Council of Marine Biological Association desire to fix a date for the laying of the foundation-stone at Plymouth by Huxley; considers such a ceremony would not attract local support and might be allowed to lapse, the opening ceremony of the completed building being a better occasion

If Council consider that the formal ceremony should be postponed until completion of buildings, he agrees; but if any alteration of present arrangements is made, it will be necessary to call a meeting
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Has summoned Council meeting and explained his views to some of the members

Will send proof of Marine Biological Association report; wishes to fix a day for Government Grant Committee

A letter from Heape to be considered by Marine Biological Association Council; his post on the BMA to be terminated; illness of Moseley

Wishes Huxley to make application to Treasury to present Challenger reports to the Marine Biological Association

Small fish and immature specimens of larger ones; Treasury grant to Scotch Fishery Board far greater than that to Marine Biological Association; thinks the two should be in the same position

Enquires result of Huxley's application to Treasury for Challenger reports

Thanks Huxley for proposing him at the Athenaeum; is trying to obtain the post at Oxford lately held by Moseley [Linacre Professorship]

Will take Huxley's advice as to Oxford; the selection board

A Committee Report [?Government Grants]

The British Association; Roux's Croonian Lecture [Proceedings of the Royal Society xlvi]; the journal of the Marine Biological Association

Oxford to elect [The Linacre Professor] in June; the memorial initiated by Huxley

Has been elected at Oxford; attributes his success to Huxley's intervention

[Written on back of printed letter from the Marine Biological Association to the Treasury, dated August 1889]. Was unaware of the letter owing to absence from England, but would never have sanctioned it as being certain to meet with refusal, as indeed it did; resigns the Presidency
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Regrets Huxley's decision and thinks Council of Marine Biological Association will urge him to reconsider it; the origin of the letter to the Treasury [End lost]

States fully the grounds of his disagreement
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Much upset by Huxley's resignation; Marine Biological Association needs funds to carry on its work; justifies action of the Council in applying to the Treasury; lack of funds

Huxley's reply; disclaims responsibility for the Marine Biological's Association's difficulties

The Council built a large laboratory with Treasury approval, and with the object of results of economic value; Council to meet and consider the matter

Oxford medical teaching and its defects [cf Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley ii, 282]

Huxley's proposals for a new university in London; criticisms of it

Comparison of medieval and modern universities
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

A controversy with W T Stead; London University examinations

Convalescence from illness; congratulates Huxley on becoming a Privy Councillor

Greetings; shares Huxley's disapproval of a proposed Darwinian Society

Volume i of The Selected Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley will contain a portrait of Huxley in 1856; wants a signature of same date to reproduce below it

Sends Huxley's letters to him for use in Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley

Sends further letters

Thanks for her congratulations on his KCB

Notice of intended call

Asks Huxley for an article for the Atlantic Monthly [of which he was assistant editor]

Informing Huxley that his candidature has been unsuccessful, Dr Beale having been appointed Professor of Physiology

Deputation from British Association on Science in Elementary Education

Resignation from London School Board
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Will not immediately report Huxley's letter to the Board in the hope that he may be able to return to the London School Board [cf Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley i, 349]

Recommends Thomson for admission to Athenaeum; he has just been appointed Surgeon to the King of the Belgians

Thanks for gift of Elementary Physiology

Banking affairs
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Denial of false statements regarding Huxley's lectures made by Dr O'Callaghan

Rejoinder to Dr O'Callaghan's reply [See also CHAMBERLAIN, J H, No 1 and GASSIOT, J P, Nos 1, 2]

A Kensington site available which may be suitable for the Technical Education Committee

Thanks for gift of book [probably American Addresses]; encloses a passage from Locke; presents new edition of European Morals

Unable to accept invitation; is going to Holland

Thanks for gift of Hume; observations thereon

Acceptance of invitation; has just returned from the Continent

Keary's works; Irish History; Gladstone and the Gadarene Swine

Thanks for gift of book

Thanks for gift [of Essays on Controverted Questions]

Thanks for gift of Essays [The Collected Essays of Thomas Henry Huxley i]

Introduces William Appleton [American publisher]
Original letter, signed, by Huxley

Thanks for gift of Essays [The Collected Essays of Thomas Henry Huxley ii-ix]

Thanks for tickets for Huxley's lectures [Course not specified]

French criticisms on certain clauses of the Fisheries Convention

Same subject as 02707

Has revisited Grimsby, which he had not seen since the Fisheries Commission meeting in 1863; growth of the town and fisheries

Sends his work This Age of Ours; regrets Huxley's article in Nineteenth Century, Mar 1890 did not appear in time to be utilized [The Collected Essays of Thomas Henry Huxley ix, 147]

"General" Booth in India; invites Huxley to write an article thereon for Asiatic Quarterly Review

Researches on central nervous system; his preparations in the hand of Queckett; invites Huxley to inspect them
[This letter is written in Latin, beginning: "Ignarus linguae anglicanae ad latinam confugo". Lenhossek was Professor of Anatomy in one of the Austrian Universities]

The Study of Political Economy

[To Lord Carlisle]. Had appointed Lynch to Catholic Inspectorship before receiving recommendations in his favour from Lord Carlisle and Matthew Arnold

Long statement on the increasing efficiency and usefulness of the School of Mines
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Suggestions for obtaining a uniform series of ethnological photographs of natives of the Colonies
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Thanks for gift of book [One of Huxley's, but not specified]

Asks Huxley to accept Crown Nomination to the Senate of London University

Would be happy to accept, but has too many engagements to be a useful member; leaves it to Lord Granville to decide
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Will write to Sir William Harcourt making the recommendation

Request for autograph by an admirer

Values Huxley's opinion on his biological work; thanks for papers

Thanks for papers; compares Huxley's conclusions to those of Leukhart

Permission to republish article(s) from Fortnightly Review

Recommends Nassau Senior for Chief Secretaryship of Education Board

Encloses official appointment as Inspector of Fisheries

Wishes Huxley to urge the claims of women to be admitted to meetings of the Ethnological Society; long and interesting letter on women's position in intellectual and ordinary society

Delay in sending medal [Clarke Medal of the Royal Society of New South Wales awarded to Huxley in 1880]; thanks for gift of Philosophical Transactions by Royal Society in London

Sends his magazine El Pensa Contemporareo containing a Spanish translation of Huxley's article 'Lights of the Church' [Nineteenth Century July 1890, The Collected Essays of Thomas Henry Huxley iv, 201] and part of Duke of Argyll's reply

Invites Huxley as the guest of Government House to visit the Melbourne Exhibition

Ramsey and Lubbock will help in a scheme [? For the foundation of a scientific journal]
Original letter, signed, by Huxley

A communication from Professor Beale [? In the Reader]
Original letter, signed, by Huxley

Origin and development of the Reader

Suggests that Norman should superintend [scientific matters] in the Reader office
Original letter, signed, by Huxley

Will sign Waller's certificate at the Savile [club]

Has done nothing about an obituary of Sir William Hooker for the Reader; suggests Oliver or Thomson; would be sorry to see the Reader in the hands of Bendyshe
Original letter, signed, by Huxley

Will vote for Dixon if he comes forward as MP for Marylebone, but does not agree with his methods and will not join his committee
Original letter, signed, by Huxley

A copy of the Report (not specified) will be sent to Saturday Review
Original letter, signed, by Huxley

Invitation to meet Youmans, the American editor
Original letter, signed, by Huxley

Introduces a polyglot linguist who may be useful to make translations for Nature
Original letter, signed, by Huxley

Death of Miller [William Allen Miller, FRS]; controversy with Bastian
Original letter, signed, by Huxley

Has not heard of a project of a "Circumnavigation repast" [for the Challenger staff]
Original letter, signed, by Huxley

Hooker's reply to Owen's attack, "a mass of lies and suppressions"; Nature should not be the vehicle for scurrilous libels [See HOOKER, J D, Nos 173-179]
Original letter, signed, by Huxley

Carruther's letter; suggests sending a proof to Hooker, so that a simultaneous reply could appear in Nature
Original letter, signed, by Huxley

A sub-editor for Nature
Original letter, signed, by Huxley

An article on Tyndall's Forms of Water; printer's errors
Original letter, signed, by Huxley

Asks for Huxley's address to send him the Report of the Royal Commission on Scientific Instruction

Will sign the memorial in favour of Mrs Day

Is returning and wishes to see Lockyer
Original letter, signed, by Huxley

Meeting with Lord Lansdowne
Original letter, signed, by Huxley

Sends paragraph for basis of discussion with Lord Lansdowne
Original letter, signed, by Huxley

Sends two communications for Nature; one consists of letters from Miklucho-Maclay to Dohrn about a Zoological Station in Malaya
Original letter, signed, by Huxley

A leader in The Times inspired by Perry, and Huxley's reply
Original letter, signed, by Huxley

Cannot have anything ready [for publication] owing to preoccupation with examinations
Original letter, signed, by Huxley

Sends his Baltimore Address for publication
Original letter, signed, by Huxley

Publication of his Harvey Centenary Speech in Nature
Original letter, signed, by Huxley

Lockyer elected to Athenaeum
Original letter, signed, by Huxley

Asks why no notice was taken of his lecture in the report of the British Association [at York] in Nature
Original letter, signed, by Huxley

Same subject as 02759
Original letter, signed, by Huxley

Name and address of a person who wants an order to visit the Arsenal
Original letter, signed, by Huxley

Burial of Spottiswoode in the Abbey
Original letter, signed, by Huxley

F Darwin sends a cheque for the Darwin Memorial Fund from Finland
Original letter, signed, by Huxley

Acceptance of invitation

Thinks the Finnish gift to the Darwin Fund should be noticed in Nature; total now £3,300
Original letter, signed, by Huxley

Wants a summary of the work of the Caroline Islands observatory for his address [at Royal Society]
Original letter, signed, by Huxley

Press reports of his address
Original letter, signed, by Huxley

In bad health and spirits
Original letter, signed, by Huxley

Stokes a Parliamentary candidate; considers that a political President of the Royal Society should resign the chair
Original letter, signed, by Huxley

Deplores political influence in the Royal Society
Original letter, signed, by Huxley

Sends article "drawn mild but with a head to it" [A leading article in Nature]
Original letter, signed, by Huxley

Thinks Huxley's article splendid ['On Politics and the Royal Society']

Letters in Nature illustrate the dangers of political presidency; they should be answered [Signature cut off]
Original letter, signed, by Huxley

Sympathy in his bereavement; the political question will be reopened in Nature

More letters in Nature
Original letter, signed, by Huxley

Has written to Lubbock and Evans about Donnelly [He was a candidate for the Athenaeum Club]
Original letter, signed, by Huxley

All goes well for Donnelly; Huxley's letter to the Duke [of Argyll]

Result of the election; Donnelly successful; Lord Aberdare presided

Delighted at the election result; good offices of Lord Aberdare
Original letter, signed, by Huxley

Invitation

[Subject unintelligible]
Original letter, signed, by Huxley

A matter requiring a judicial editorial in Nature [concerning the Royal Society]
Original letter, signed, by Huxley

Thinks the award of the Hayden Medal by Philadelphia University should be noticed in Nature
Original letter, signed, by Huxley

An introductory article for the 51st Volume of Nature
Original letter, signed, by Huxley

Article to be of same length as that prefixed to volume 1

Sends article; does not wish to attack Lord Salisbury
Original letter, signed, by Huxley

The College Museum; letters from Davies and Seeley
Original letter, signed, by Huxley

Editing a presidential address
Original letter, signed, by Huxley

Accepts invitation

Accepts invitation

Regrets at missing a meeting

Enquires about Huxley's health

Has sent an article by Foster
Original letter, signed, by Huxley

Has no objection to the production of a document (nature not stated)
Original letter, signed, by Huxley

Recollections of a misunderstanding of 17 years ago

Thanks for friendly letter

Has read Huxley's letters to The Times on "General" Booth and sends copy of his paper The Altruist

Sends a copy of Andrew Lang's Cock Lane and Common Sense

Seems to be out of Lang's "good books"; thanks for the book sent
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Regrets his firm cannot undertake publication of a translation of Siebold's work
[Probably Tape and Cystic Worms, translated by Huxley and published by another firm in 1858]

Would like to discuss the proposed translation of Kolliker's Microscopic Anatomy
[Translated by Huxley and George Busk, 1853]

Asks for autograph

Recollections of a visit to Huxley in 1866; the Swedish Educational system and its defects; a committee to confer with the Government

Saurian remains found by Nordenskiold at Spitzbergen [Norway] offered to Huxley for examination and publication

Studying Echinoderms recent and fossil; wants specimens for comparison; names certain specimens published by Forbes; a request made to Murchison was ignored

Specimens lent by Huxley from the Jermyn Street Museum have arrived safely

Accepts invitation to a dinner and will speak

The Treasury decision most unsatisfactory both to Hooker and to the scientific world in the Ayrton affair [cf Life and Letters of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker ii, chapter 35]; gratitude for his friendly attitude
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

[To Dr Asa Gray]. Commission him to request Huxley to lecture at the Lowell Institute

Dress for a Royal Drawing Room

Has received from US Government draft of proposed Copyright Treaty between US and England, promoted by American publishers and authors, and desires to know view of those of England

Points out certain objections to the scheme
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Acceptance of invitation

Invitation

Encloses letter from Lord Kenmare [qv] granting an exception to usual procedure at Royal Drawing Room

Invitation

Invitation; congratulations on election as President of the Royal Society

Accepts invitation

Asks for a history of the Royal Society and list of Fellows

Returns books

Invitation

Invitation

Accepts invitation

News of her daughter in America

Having proposed the Bishop of Natal as a visitor to the Club, he resents Lord Overstone having spoken with heat on the matter and having quitted the chair
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Presided at committee meeting [of the Athenaeum] on the understanding that nothing relating to the Bishop of Natal should be discussed; as this matter did arise, however, he vacated the chair

Disclaims any intention of limiting the powers of the Chairman, but challenges his right to pronounce from the chair a censure on the other members of the Club
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Agamic reproduction of Zooids

Agamic reproduction of Zooids

Embryo of Daphnia; is anxious to see Siebold's paper [Beginning lost]

Sends messenger for Siebold's paper; wishes to discuss new research

Thanks for Siebold's paper and for advice on his own paper; development of Crustacea

Asks permission to quote Huxley's opinion in his paper

Memorial to Dr Temple on Essays and Reviews

Agrees to whatever Huxley and Busk may recommend to clear up the misunderstanding with Lyell [See LYELL, Nos 52-59]

Will amend his book in accordance with the suggested plan

Plans for British Association meeting at Nottingham; Alfred Russell Wallace; Busk's "irresponsible pugnacity"

Encloses papers from Hunt on the proposed amalgamation of the Anthropological and Ethnological Societies [See CLARKE, HYDE, No 1 and section IV, 2]

Invites Huxley to dinner of a new club to discuss metaphysical and theological subjects; list of members

Has been asked to lecture at Edinburgh [for Cranbrook, qv]; asks Huxley for his advice as to whether he ought to do so

[To Spottiswoode]. The Ayrton affair [cf Life and Letters of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker i, chapter 35]

Copies of three letters to Hooker on the same subject as 02841

Asks Huxley to take the chair at the Council of the Anthropological Society for electing President and Council, suggests Evans as President and gives list of proposed Council

Regrets result of voting at Council Meeting; suggests courses of action to take

Has seen Lane-Fox and intends to propose an alternative list of names

Asks for a copy of Huxley's lecture on the Pedigree of the Horse

Accepts invitation, unless detained in the House of Commons

Thanks for sympathy on the death of his wife

Unable to accept invitation

Acceptance of invitation

Unable to accept invitation

Acceptance of invitation

Congratulations on his pension [cf Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley ii, 108]

Has read Huxley's article [Nineteenth Century, Mar 1886]; his Origin of Civilization is anterior to the works quoted by Huxley

Pleased to hear of good health of Huxley and Tyndall; thinks Hooker has been treated shabbily [cf Life and Letters of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker ii, 268]

The Home Rule question from an ethnological point of view

Sympathy on death of Huxley's daughter Marian [cf Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley ii, 179]; does not agree with Huxley's views against Stokes as President of the Royal Society being also an MP

Stokes and Parliament

Birthday greetings

Photograph [About 1865]

Is calling and bringing letters as to Darwin [ie The Times review; cf Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley i, 176]

Dispute of Fisheries Commissioners with the Severn Board; home and foreign political situation

Sends proof of 8th edition of the Principles and wants a small figure of the larva of a Pecten to insert

Should receive a copy of 8th edition from publishers; Huxley's figure inserted on page 652

Death of Forbes [cf Life, Letters and Journals of Sir Charles Lyell, Bart ii, 201]

Sends his own and other subscriptions to the Forbes Memorial Fund

Sends manuscript asked for; in Owen's absence there was a discussion on Fossil Reptiles at Geological Society

[To Darwin]. Knows of several French geologists who are worthy of being FMRS but none so much as Barrande; his important work; has named Barrande's new period Cambrian [cf Life, Letters and Journals of Sir Charles Lyell, Bart ii, 222]

Has met Hugh Miller and examined his collection; Miller has shown how very reptilian the early Ganoid fishes are [cf Life, Letters and Journals of Sir Charles Lyell, Bart ii, 205]; Dawson's appointment in Canada; congratulates Huxley on his marriage

A controversy between Huxley and Falconer

Fossil elephants; has taken specimens from Jermyn Street to Falconer, who cannot leave his room; Falconer's forthcoming paper at the Geological Society

Thanks Huxley for his drawings of larvae of Cardium

Unable to attend meeting [of Council, Geological Society]; Lord Burlington's interest in new charter

Asks for a paper on Mystriosaurus; consulted Hugh Miller on the age of the deposit; Miller's and Mantell's work upon it; discussion of certain fossiliferous beds

A long and interesting letter on the species question and transmutation

Geological age of Stagonolepsis; has visited the Elgin deposits; details of geological evidence; Owen's opinion

Thanks for geological evidence; greatly doubted that the Elgin beds could be Devonian, and is pleased that Lyell is satisfied on stratigraphical grounds that they belong to Upper Trias; did not trouble himself about Owen's opinion
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Sends letters from Hooker about a plant monstrosity; has seen the plants, and if anything analogous occurred in animals they would be considered new creations; asks for information on alternate upheaval and depression on Bristol Channel coast

Genesis and its interpretation; exclusion of women from places of education where both sides of a discussion can be heard

Understands Lyell to refer to Geological Society; considers it not a place for educating students but for discussion by adepts; fully agrees that women should be trained in physical science
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Shows that Universities have come under ecclesiastical domination in modern not in monastic times; science can never make progress while college tutors are all clergy in esse or in futuro; instruction of schoolmasters in physical science

Rediscovery of Stereognathus; was in Charlesworth's hands in York and was sent to Owen, who published it [Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London xiii, 1857, 1]

A primitive skull; "the oldest well-authenticated skull of man I know"; the Loess skull

An annotated copy of his Manual, sent for comment

Sends supplement and asks for criticisms and notes; nomenclature of Eocene and following periods

Sale of certain specimens for "the widow" [Mrs Dennis]
[Widow of Rev James Blatch Piggott Dennis (1816-1861); FGS, palaeontologist]

Blumenbach's theory of degeneracy of human races

Comments on Owen's statements as to the human brain, and those of apes; asks for information on the volume of the brain, and the significance of convolutions

Difference in mass between highest and lowest human brains compared with that between lowest human and highest ape; convolutions in the brains of apes; Owen's paper in Transactions of the Zoological Society iv
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Has told Mrs Dennis that he is sure her husband would have considered Jermyn Street Museum the proper place for the specimen to be sold; suggests borrowing from Bronn Triassic mammals for comparison with Stereognathus

Has read Huxley's paper on the relations of man to the lower animals [Natural History Review 1861, i, 67] and considers it unanswerable; the inconsistencies and fallacies [of Owen]; a controversy over referees in the Geological Society
[This letter is dated 1860, but it is an evident slip as the article to which it refers did not appear until 1861]

A discovery of a skull and animal remains in the Trent Valley; less ancient than the discoverer supposes
Draft or copy letter by Huxley