Thomas Henry Huxley - Papers [M876-916], 1839-1926

M 876-916

fonds

Canberra : Australian Joint Copying Project, [19--]

432496

Microfilm : M 876-916

1 microfilm reels 35 mm

Zoologist, lecturer and writer. Assistant surgeon on the survey ship H.M.S. Rattlesnake from 1846 to 1850; 1854-1885 taught natural history at the Royal School of Mines; President of the Royal Society 1881-1885

General and scientific correspondence (ca. 4500 letters), the 850 correspondents including John Tyndall, Sir Joseph Hooker, Michael Foster, Charles Darwin, Sir Charles Lyell, Alexander Agassiz, Rev. Benjamin Jowett and Herbert Spencer (arranged in alphabetical order); nearly all the letters exchanged between T.H. Huxley and his wife from 1847-1895; letters written to Mrs Huxley and to his son, Dr Leonard Huxley; notes, drawings and photographs used in the preparation of scientific papers and lectures; diaries and sketchbooks kept on the voyage of Rattlesnake; manuscripts of a number of his books and contributions to journals; engagement diaries; newspaper cuttings and other printed material

Filmed as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project by the National Library of Australia and the State Library of New South Wales
National Library of Australia holds microfilm master
Available for reference
Australian Joint Copying Project handbook. Part 8 : Miscellaneous [M series], Entry 91, p. 47-48
Australian Joint Copying Project miscellaneous series M876-916
Microfilm copy of originals held by the Imperial College of Science and Technology, College Archives, College Block, Imperial College, London
M876-895 : The Huxley papers by Warren R. Dawson. London, 1946. M896 : Thomas Henry Huxley: list of his correspondence with Miss Henrietta Anne Heathorn, later Mrs Huxley, 1847-54 / compiled by Jeanne Pingree (1969). M897-916 : Thomas Henry Huxley: a list of his scientific notebooks, drawings and other papers preserved in the College Archives / J. Pingree, 1969