Application to Committee of Recommendations of Royal Society for a grant towards cost of publishing his Rattlesnake results

Invitation

His views as to Huxley's prospects; has discussed the matter with Bell; sends testimonial for Toronto Candidature [Testimonials of Thomas H Huxley, FRS, Candidate for the Chair of Natural History at the University of Toronto 8]

Has no objection to furnishing Huxley with copies of the resolutions of the Royal Society and British Association as to publishing his works

Delays in decisions as to grants for publication; Lord Rosse to see the Treasury; Owen's paper on Megatherium dropped owing to high cost

Sends a printed paper (not specified) for Huxley's opinion

Considers it worthless and should be ignored
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Report on the examination of micro-organisms, and conclusions from the result of experiments

Lord Derby will preside at Prize Distribution at Liverpool School of Science by Huxley

On the ventilation of the rooms [?at University College]

Same subject as 03577

Medical reform at London University
Draft or copy letter by Huxley
[The original of this letter is in Witwatersrand University, [South Africa]. This copy was presented to the Huxley Collection in 1946 by Warren R Dawson]

Thanks for copy of Evolution and Ethics

Unable to go to London

Fragment [Beginning lost]

Interpretation of certain sections of the Elementary Education Act
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Agrees with Huxley's interpretation

Translation of Huxley's works into French

Is sending a copy of the Revue de Belgique containing his article on Huxley's scientific philosophy
Written in French

Is about to publish a series of papers on Huxley's philosophy in the Bulletin de l'Academie [belge] with preface by Van Beneden
Written in French

His translation of Goethe's Maxims; asks Huxley's assistance in selecting those relating to science

The philosophy of Locke and Liebnitz

Thanks for Lessons in Elementary Physiology

Congratulates Huxley on being made a Privy Councillor

An ex-clergyman seeking lay employment asks for recommendation from Huxley

Having been unsuccessful in England is returning to Canada; resigned from the Church being unable to reconcile Science and Religion

Success of Huxley's Edinburgh Lecture [Physical Basis of Life, The Collected Essays of Thomas Henry Huxley i, 130]

Thanks Huxley for medical advice given to his brother-in-law

Will send P Smit to execute the woodcuts [for his paper in Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1868, 294; The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley iii, 346]

On Huxley's objection to the use of woodcuts prepared for Huxley in Gray's Catalogue of Monkeys, etc, granted by the Council of the Zoological Society
[The Council of the Zoological Society allowed J E Gray the use of certain woodcuts in his Cat Monkeys, Lemurs and Fruit-eating Bats (British Museum, 1870). These had been made for papers by Huxley. It is difficult to see what Huxley's objections were, as Gray acknowledged their source, and attached Huxley's name to them. (Op cit figs 2, 1611, 18-20]

Has heard from Donnelly his appointment as Assistant Professor of Botany at Normal School of Science, and asks for particulars as to the work of the post

The Company presents Huxley with a pair of silver-gilt spoons to commemorate the Jubilee

In a review of 1st edition of Lyell's Principles in 1831, he anticipated Huxley's remarks on Uniformitarianism in the address to the Geological Society in 1869 [The Collected Essays of Thomas Henry Huxley viii, 305]

Asks Huxley to contribute an article to a special issue of the Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science to commemorate the 25th year of Lankester's editorship

Reply to Huxley's letter, Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley ii, 358, thanking him for his lecture defending the principles of the Romanes Lecture [See HOOKER, J D, No 408]

An international college, free from the traditions and restraints of the universities, would meet with violent opposition

Reply to Huxley's letter Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley ii, 360 on the Prolegomena to the Romanes Lecture [The Collected Essays of Thomas Henry Huxley ix, 1]
[In 1898 Professor Seth assumed the additional surnames Pringle-Pattison on succeeding to the Haining Estate]

As chairman of Huxley Memorial Fund reports that Onslow Ford has been commissioned to execute a statue to be placed with those of Darwin and Owen

A fierce denunciation of the writings of Huxley, "the infidel and enemy of mankind"

Full account of the Arctic voyage of the ship (after Huxley's cruise had finished) by a former shipmate

Invitation to meet McClatchie [qv]

Information as to the Toronto Chair

Arrangements for going to the opera

Encloses testimonial

Testimonial [Testimonials of Thomas H Huxley, FRS, Candidate for the Chair of Natural History at the University of Toronto 8]

Council of Royal Society have nominated Huxley Croonian Lecturer

Sends an article on the "Raising of Lazarus"

Asks Huxley to be photographed at his Studio, Sarony, 680 Broadway

Comments on a passage on the Report on Scottish Herring Trawling

Will see the parson [Rev F G M Powell, qv] who has interviewed the docker [Sparks, qv] with a view to obtaining laboratory employment for him [cf Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley ii, 366]

Eulogy on Lessons in Elementary Physiology

Thanks for Anatomy of Invertebrates, and for his civility to his pupil Willemoes-Suhm [qv] and feels honoured that he was considered worthy to be appointed to Challenger Expedition
Written in German

Sends a copy of his book [English Sanitary Institutions, 1890]; Huxley's "Boothian Campaign"

Thanks for the book; his diversions in retirement
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

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

Sympathy for illness of Huxley's daughter

Going to Switzerland; hopes to meet Tyndall there [Huxley's reply, Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley ii, 36]

Met Tyndall in Switzerland; news

Asks for reference for a quotation from Huxley; the Duke of Argyll's attack in Nineteenth Century

The Orkneys; the Romanes Lecture [Huxley's reply, Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley ii, 359]

Has returned from Orkney

Thanks for gift of The Collected Essays of Thomas Henry Huxley; personal news

Has been reading The Collected Essays of Thomas Henry Huxley throughout the winter

Will send copies of Huxley's letters to him for use in Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley

Sends papers (of which he has forwarded duplicates to Herbert Spencer) for opinion

Definition of "absolute", "agnosticism", "evolution philosophy"

Thanks for gift of Science and Hebrew Tradition [The Collected Essays of Thomas Henry Huxley iv]
Written in German

[To George Rolleston]. Sends Latin quotation [cf ROLLESTON, G, No 17]

[To Matthew Arnold]. Unable to keep appointment

The political situation; Gladstone's policy

Thanks for present

Spottiswoode as President of the Royal Society; regards Huxley as a future president

[Sir John] Evans would be a good Treasurer if Lubbock cannot act; the Oxford professorships in physiology

Invitation

Rolleston has been brought home in a critical condition

Huxley's refusal to succeed Rolleston at Oxford; other possible candidates, Flower, Lankester and others

Asks if Royal Society nominee for the Governing Body of Westminster School belongs to the Church of England as required by statute

As Secretary of the Royal Society can only carry out the orders of the President and Council; if the Governors think the Royal Society have infringed their statutes, they must lay it officially before the Royal Society [See SPOTTISWOODE, W, Nos 7,8]
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Sends book for review [On the Science of Sensibility or Simple Element of the Soul, London, 1873]

Invitation to distribute the prizes at the Keighley Institute

The death of Edward Forbes

Thanks for Lessons in Elementary Physiology

Wants an article for Quarterly Review on the Report of the Vivisection Commission

Hopes Huxley will write the article in order to give a proper view of the case before it is discussed in Parliament and elsewhere

Thanks Huxley for consenting to write the article; the word "vivisection" raises prejudice, and he suggests a paraphrase for the title [cf The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley i, 427]

His own feelings on reading the Report and Evidence; points to be emphasized in the article

The evidence given by a writer in the Record [Report, p 255]

As it is unlikely that a Bill will be introduced this session, the article for the Quarterly Review can be postponed

Leaves the decision to Huxley whether to publish the article immediately or not

Postponement agreed upon

Greetings and news

Has to decide upon recommendations for Civil List Pensions; asks Huxley's advice as to Waterhouse Hawkins

Asks Huxley to contribute an article on the History of Zoology to Encyclopaedia Britannica

Values Huxley's opinion on his book [Lectures on the Religion of the Semites]

The writer, an architect of Austrian origin, asks for Huxley's views on ventilation as a part of hygiene

Thanks Huxley for his paper on Glacier Ice [Philosophical Magazine xiv, 241; The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley i, 482]; effects of ice

Thanks for pamphlet sent by Tyndall and Huxley

Asks for medical advice on his symptoms; is meeting Flower [cf Sir William Henry Flower. A Personal Memoir 41]

Sends an account of his career [Review of Reviews, April 1893]; did not obtain Civil List Pension

Will deliver lecture to Working Men at British Association at Oxford on "The Deluge"; asks for information

An appeal for support for the Social Working Men's Club Association

Thanks Huxley for scientific papers, and Oceanic Hydroza; is working on microscopic organisms

[To Rev F G M Powell, qv]. An appreciative letter by the Southampton docker, as to whom see Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley ii, 365

Observations with the microscope

Comments on Darwin's Earthworm

Bacon's philosophy and the origin of certain of his writings [cf Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley ii, 485]

His studies in and estimate of Bacon [Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley ii, 487]

Similarities between Hume and Marcus Aurelius

Quotes an extract from one of his sermons to compare with Huxley's article in Nineteenth Century, December 1885 [=The Collected Essays of Thomas Henry Huxley iv, 162]

As a minister of the Scottish Kirk he feels himself and many of his colleagues more in sympathy with the "infidel" Huxley than with the orthodox Bishop of Peterborough and Wace

A version of the "Missionary and Casowary" rhyme [cf Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley ii, 335; CASSIDI, F, No 1 (12.143); 31.114]

Wishes to obtain Huxley's paper on the Ascidians being much interested in the production of composite animals by the union of simple ones

Invitation to meet Lewes and go to the Zoological Gardens

Power of selection by Amoeba and other primitive organisms

Sends his new book [Principles of Psychology] and asks for criticisms

Thanks for ticket for Huxley's lectures [at Royal Institution]

Thanks for testimonial

Printed prospectus of ten volumes of philosophical works to be issued in parts

Is gratified with Huxley's approval of his first part, who is "so critical and sceptical"; is sending further proofs

Sympathy on death of Huxley's child; an illustration in the proofs criticized by Huxley; the authority for it was Owen

Though Huxley's name is in the list of subscribers, in return for help presentation copies of the works will be sent to him

Accepts invitation; thanks for gift of book [Lectures on Comparative Anatomy]

Asks Mrs Huxley to forward proofs to Huxley if he is away

Criticisms of the editorship of the Reader

Circulation and sales of his works in England and America

Accepts invitation

Accepts invitation

Accepts invitation

Recognition of Huxley's valuable help; sends present of a clock [Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley i, 385]

Accepts invitation

Wishes to obtain work for a needy young surgeon

Unable to accept invitation

Thanks for gift of book [Critiques and Addresses]

Appointment with Appleton and Tyndall

Invitation

Hears that Huxley is going to Edinburgh; the X-Club

Arrangements for an excursion

Has altered his course of treatment and removed to Bournemouth [Huxley's reply, Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley ii, 184]

Accepts usual invitation for New Year's Day

Accepts invitation for marriage of [Jessie Huxley]

Is reading The Collected Essays of Thomas Henry Huxley; his ill-health; hopes Huxley's chapter on Owen is proceeding satisfactorily [Life of Richard Owen ii, 273]

Accepts invitation

Urges Huxley to press the Dean to assent to burial of George Eliot in Westminster Abbey

Declines to ask the Dean, for reasons stated at length
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

New edition of his Principles of Psychology; Materialism versus Spiritualism

Arrangements for excursion

Acceptance of New Year's invitation

Prevented by ill-health

Publisher has sent out without authority copies of a sermon by the Rev Savage of Boston

Congratulations on Huxley's election as President of the Royal Society

An article for the Nineteenth Century

Unable to accept New Year invitation

Accepts invitation to meet Lord and Lady Dalhousie

Unable to give definite acceptance of invitation owing to ill-health

Accepts invitation to Rachel Huxley's wedding if he is not in Derby

Unable to attend X-Club

The X-Club; Lord Iddesleigh's letter [see NORTHCOTE, S H, No 2]; the Nineteenth Century article [The Collected Essays of Thomas Henry Huxley iv, 139]

Sends proofs for criticism "and castigation"

Thanks for comments and criticisms; Huxley's reply to Gladstone [Nineteenth Century February 1886; The Collected Essays of Thomas Henry Huxley iv, 164]

More material sent for criticism; Tyndall's health; suggests a yachting cruise for Tyndall, Huxley and himself [Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley ii, 127]

Huxley's "captious and cantankerous" criticisms; detailed consideration of remarks concerning Protozoa, Protoplasm, Blastoderm, etc [cf Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley ii, 127]

Tyndall entertains the yachting project [see no 03725]; asks for Huxley's approval

Proposes to write his autobiography and submit it to a few intimate friends

Health improving; working on Autobiography

Progress in his health; presumes Huxley will reply to Lilly's article in October Fortnightly Review [Huxley did so in Fortnightly Review, November=The Collected Essays of Thomas Henry Huxley ix, 117; Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley ii, 144]

Sends batch of proofs of Autobiography [Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley ii, 145]

Huxley's reply to Lilly [Fortnightly Review, November=The Collected Essays of Thomas Henry Huxley ix, 117; Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley ii, 146]

Sends more proofs of Autobiography

Has been made an Honorary Member of the London Liberty Club; invitation [cf Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley ii, 183]

Arrangements for visit to Brighton

The X-Club; his health deteriorating

Health improving; urges Huxley and his friends to attend the general meeting of the Athenaeum and oppose the proposals for its enlargement

Sends further proof of Autobiography

Regrets to hear of Huxley's illness; his own state of health

Sympathy on death of Huxley's daughter Marian; sends more proofs [cf Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley ii, 179]

Asks for Wallace's address

Agrees with Huxley's views in Nineteenth Century, February 1888 [=The Collected Essays of Thomas Henry Huxley ix, 195]; morals and war; social evils; dissents from Huxley's remedial proposals

Thinks the last letter written under a misapprehension as to the extent to which his views have been independently formed; resents being told that criticism is withheld because it may cause coolness
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Admits misapprehension, but on both sides; is reluctant to enter into controversy and disturb harmony, both parties being combative

Unable to attend X-Club owing to a relapse

Had a relapse after dining with Gaston at the Athenaeum, but is better [Reply to Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley ii, 194]

Has seen Tyndall and Hirst and heard of Huxley's invalidity [Huxley's reply, Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley ii, 198]

Asks for an instance of a rudimentary organ that is harmful

Has heard of Huxley's activity in Switzerland; his own health; proposes wintering with Huxley at Bournemouth

Personal and family news

Hears Huxley is building a house at Eastbourne; his own health and movements

A geological controversy; personal news

As Huxley has seen the first part of the Autobiography in proof, has asked Miss Flora Smith to lend him the other half; proposes to winter at Eastbourne

Will not accept the loan of the Autobiography at the hands of a casual acquaintance; if he is outside the circle of intimate friends, prefers to leave the book unread [Cancelled, and marked "Not sent"]
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

[To Sir J D Hooker; copy in Huxley's handwriting]. His disagreement with Huxley; considers Huxley has done an irreparable injury to him; resigns from X-Club

Disclaims all intention of malice and is pained that Spencer should refuse any opportunity of explanation or satisfaction through Hooker
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Has sent Volume I of Ethics; thanks for Essays on Controverted Questions

Acknowledges (in third person) a communication which he considers discourteous and unsatisfactory
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Thinks a reply should be made to Lord Salisbury's statements on Natural Selection [in his presidential address to the British Association at Oxford]; controversy with Lord Kelvin on the age of the earth

Will send Huxley's letters for use in Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley

Thanks for Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley; comments thereon; corrects two errata

Postponement of X-Club meeting

Essay on Animal Worship; his reply to Tylor

Asks Huxley to serve on Royal Commission on Medical Education

Is organizing the new Normal School of Science, a Dean will be appointed; asks Huxley to fill the post

Sends a memorandum on Salmon Fisheries; the different positions in England, Scotland and Ireland

[From Sir J Donnelly]. Suggests that Huxley's services to science be recognized by making him a Privy Councillor

Encloses draft clauses for a reply by the Royal Society [Subject not stated]

Invitation to meet Tourganiff [qv]
[So written: read Turguenieff]

Mrs Spottiswoode unable to accept invitation on account of her father's death

Regrets his inability to undertake [?lectures at Royal Institution]

Sends a letter (not specified) for Huxley's opinion

Acknowledgment of Huxley's reply

Sends a letter for Huxley's attention as Secretary, Royal Society [See SMITH, Horace W, Nos 1, 2]

Quite agrees that Royal Society cannot enter into enquiries about the religious opinions of the Fellows

Accident to Mrs Spottiswoode

Resigns Secretaryship of Royal Society [Printed copy of his formal letter of 15 February 1881 attached]
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Asks for Huxley's photograph to insert in a screen for Princess Louise

Printed letter, signed by Busk and others enclosing a memorial to the Dean asking for permission for Spottiswoode's body to be interred in Westminster Abbey

Sends a statement "of certain views" he holds and asks for criticism

The ravages of Tinea granella; accounts of it by Reaumer and Curtis

The natural history and ravages of Ephestia elutella [Notes by Huxley attached, 26.214-216]

The article on Essays and Reviews to be kept secret for a few days

A memorial to Temple [re Essays and Reviews]; thinks signatories should be confined to scientists; clergy are reluctant to sign such appeals

Recommends Bruce Cunningham for a post in the Zoological Society; has been asked by Lord Caithness to press his claims for election to the Athenaeum

Asks advice as to whether he should give his support to a society (not named)

Unable to accept invitation

A Roman sarcophagus of a certain Marcus Volscius has been found; wishes Huxley to ascertain if the bones in it are his or of some 12th century intruder

The bones are in a box awaiting Huxley's inspection

Hears Huxley is in London, and repeats request to examine the Roman skeleton

Was unaware that Huxley had already seen the bones; must give up the idea that they are those of Volscius unless the sarcophagus was made long after his death; the sarcophagus will be kept above ground and the bones accessible for further examination

[Almost entirely illegible; mentions Wycliff and books on the Articles]

Encloses "Orange Tract"; internal evidence of its lay, not clerical, origin

Asks for references to accounts of the survey of New Guinea by his brother [Captain Owen Stanley]

Is carrying out a plan of his late wife's to give evening parties to working men, clerks, etc and invites Huxley's co-operation

Thanks Huxley for his lectures to working men [The Collected Essays of Thomas Henry Huxley ii, 303]

Huxley's kindness to Dr Herzfeld [qv]

Has lost letter of invitation; asks for date

Humorous toast to the memory of King William in Stanley's handwriting

Unable to accept invitation

An article for the Quarterly Review by Huxley and a misunderstanding concerning it

Will ask Lord Stanley of Alderley for a testimonial to Huxley

[To T Arnold]. Remembers him at Rugby and also his father's teaching; unable to offer him a situation in India House

At the desire of Mrs [Owen] Stanley is sending some books which belonged to her brother [in-law] Captain Owen Stanley of the Rattlesnake

Thinks Conway's Association lacks definite plans; has grave doubts of the whole affair

Asks her to convey to Lord Stanley his thanks for promoting his interests for the Toronto Chair; suggests that Lord Stanley should furnish him with a letter for Lord Elgin

[To Lord Elgin]. Testimonial for Huxley's Toronto candidature

Has read the Crayfish; thinks that there is need of a work on the model of Cuvier, brought up to date, with the Geological Record; wants information on Cephalopods

Memorial to Carlyle [cf Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley ii, 34]

Congratulations on Huxley's election as President of the Royal Society

Wants a text-book of science; will attend Tyndall's lectures

Wants a text-book of Zoology and Palaeontology for her son Lyulph

Invitation

Unable to accept invitation

Unable to accept invitation owing to illness of a relation

Is sending human skulls from Central Africa for examination and opinion

Is highly honoured by the award of the Davy Medal; will be unable to attend in person; asks that it may be sent through the Belgian Legation
Written in French

Sends an order for admission to General Gallery [of the House of Commons]; will personally take him to the House of Lords

Asks leave to print part of Huxley's letter [? on deceased wife's sister question. See ALLEN, P, No 1]

Is planning a periodical in which current magazines and reviews are summarized, and asks Huxley's approval of the plan [Review of Reviews was founded in 1890]

Has written his last article as Editor of Pall Mall Gazette on Huxley's article in Nineteenth Century [The Collected Essays of Thomas Henry Huxley i, 290]; sends precis of it for Review of Reviews for his approval

Calls attention to a misquote from his article on Nineteenth Century [The Collected Essays of Thomas Henry Huxley iv, 201]
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Apologizes for the mistake

Accepts apology if correction made; calumny of critics of Lyell, Darwin and Colenso
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Appreciates Huxley's attitude, has to work very rapidly

Sends advance copy of Review of Reviews with correction of the mistake

Is satisfied with the correction, but will not comment on the "oblique ingenuity" of the writer of the second paragraph

Sends General Booth's book [In Darkest England] which he had some hand in producing

Parallels between George Fox and General Booth

Count Mattei's cancer cures; asks for opinion on best means of obtaining reliable scientific testimony

Huxley's reply
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Same subject as 03831; Gladstone and Home Rule

A mis-statement in one of Huxley's letters to The Times on the General Booth controversy [cf The Collected Essays of Thomas Henry Huxley ix, 305ff]

Huxley's reply [Printed in full in The Collected Essays of Thomas Henry Huxley ix, 309]
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Will send report of the legal proceedings which gave rise to the statement [The Collected Essays of Thomas Henry Huxley ix, 309]

Sends copy of evidence

Has obtained official report of the case which confirms the extract sent

Asks Huxley to renew his offer to make the facts public; garbled accounts in the newspapers

Renews offer to make public Stead's letter of the 10th [03834]; statement of his position [cf The Collected Essays of Thomas Henry Huxley ix, 310]
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Regrets that Huxley complains of his letter to The Times; is grieved to be thought capable of misrepresentation

Further explanation of their relative points of view
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Acknowledgement; his letter to The Times

A controversy between Stead and Lankester
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Encloses copy of a statement on a memorial for International Arbitration to check the growth of European armaments; wishes to obtain Huxley's support

Has considered the memorial but is unable to sign it; reasons for his action
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Appreciates Huxley's reasons for refusal to sign the memorial

A fanatical condemnation of Gladstone

Acknowledges brevet and decoration of the Order of the North Star; is seeing permission to accept them [See DIPLOMAS and HOOKER, J D, Nos 185-190]
Draft or copy letter by Huxley
[Steenbock was Secretary to the Legation of Sweden and Norway in London. The Minister at this time as Baron Hochschild]

Thanks for gift of The Collected Essays of Thomas Henry Huxley; reminiscences of Huxley's visit to Maloja [cf Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley ii, 205]

An appeal for help in the Foote case

Has not read Foote's writings, but declines to admit justification for coarsely and brutally insulting the beliefs of others [Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley ii, 406, see SULLY, J, No 4]
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Asks for introduction to Lord Rayleigh for a friend at Trinity College, Cambridge

Asks for comments on his chapter on "Madness" [in his History of Criminal Law, 1883]