The life and times of Thomas Huxley
Created by physicus on 03/05/2011
Last updated: 11/05/11 at 04:00
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Huxley died of a heart attack on a sunny Saturday at his home Hodeslea in Eastbourne
Between 1893 and 1895, MacMillan Publish Huxley's Collected Essays in nine volumes:
vol. 1, Method and Results
vol. 2, Darwiniana
vol. 3, Science and Education
vol. 4, Science and Hebrew Tradition
vol. 5, Science and Christian Tradition
vol. 6, Hume, with Helps to the Study of Berkeley
vol. 7, Man's Place in Nature
vol. 8, Discourses, Biological and Geological
vol. 9, Evolution and Ethics and Other Essays.
http://aleph0.clarku.edu/huxley/CE1/index.html
Huxley moves into his new house 'Hodeslea' at Eastbourne on the south coast
For work on morphology and histology of vertebrate and invertebrate animals, and past general service.
Huxley and Henrietta left Queenstown, Ireland on the Germanic, travelling to New York and the start of Huxley's US lecture tour.
Huxley lived here from 1872 to 1892
Huxley starts the first formal teaching of 'biology' in South Kensington's 'Science Schools Building'
http://communicatescience.com/zoonomian/2009/05/04/happy-birthday-thomas-henry-huxley-1825-1895/
Held at St.Georges Hotel. Members: George Busk, Edward Frankland, Thomas Archer Hirst, Joseph Dalton Hooker, Thomas Henry Huxley, John Lubbock, Herbert Spencer, William Spottiswoode, John Tyndall.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Club#cite_note-0
Huxley lived here from 30 May 1861 to 18th December 1872
http://communicatescience.com/zoonomian/2011/01/28/huxley-and-tyndall-ill-prepared-alpinists/
Huxley debates evolution with Bishop Samuel Wilberforce 'Soapy Sam'
'a lovely child with large blue eyes, golden curls, a clear firm skin and regular features' T.H.H.
Huxley married at All Saints Church, FInchley Road, London - after an eight year engagement.
Of the 6 lectures given at the Royal School of Mines Huxley said "I want the working classes to understand that Science and her ways are great facts for them - that physical virtue is the base of all other, and that they are to be clean and temperate and all the rest - not because fellows in black with white ties tell them so, but because these are plain and patent laws of nature which they must obey 'under penalties''
Once elected, it cost £14 a year to be a FRS in 1851.
H.M.S. Rattlesnake arrived at Devonport 23 Oct 1850
Presented to the Royal Society On the Anatomy and the Affinities of the Medusæ. PTRS, part ii (1849): 413; SM 1: 9-32.
Huxley joined the survey ship H.M.S.Rattlesnake as Assistant Ship's Surgeon
http://communicatescience.com/zoonomian/2011/03/12/thomas-huxley-and-the-return-of-the-rattlesnake-bones/
M.B. = Bachelor of Medicine
On a Hitherto Undescribed Structure in the Human Hair Sheath. London Medical Gazette. 1 (1845): 1340; SM 1: 1-3.
http://aleph0.clarku.edu/huxley/SM1/Hair.html
Huxley received a scholarship to Charing Cross Hospital in 1842.
'Almost the only cheerful reminiscence in connection with the place, which arises in my mind, is that of a battle I had with one of my classmates, who had bullied me until I could stand it no longer. I was a very slight lad, but there was a wild-cat element in me which, when roused, made up for lack of weight, and I licked my adversary effectually.' T.H.H.
http://aleph0.clarku.edu/huxley/CE1/AutoB.html
Huxley was born in Ealing, near London.
http://communicatescience.com/zoonomian/2009/05/04/happy-birthday-thomas-henry-huxley-1825-1895/
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