M876-M916
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Series 1. The Huxley Papers, 1827 - 1925
Where a correspondence extends beyond 1895, it can be assumed that the recipient of the later letters was Henrietta Huxley (who died in 1915).
Subseries Section I. Scientific and General Correspondence, 1849 - 1908
Volume 1: Correspondence with John Tyndall, 1851 - 1894 (File ff.1-219)
Volume 2: Correspondence with Sir Joseph Hooker, 1854 - 1895 (File ff.1-462)
Items of interest include:...
Volume 3: Correspondence with Sir Joseph Hooker, 1854 - 1896 (File ff.1-429)
Items of interest include:f.320 Sir William Hooker to Huxley, 28 September 1893: Huxley's autobiography and other essays; Hooker has made a transcript of Joseph Banks' journal on the Endeavour...
Volume 4: Correspondence with Sir Michael Foster, 1865 - 1902 (File ff.151-394)
Volume 5: Correspondence with Charles Darwin, 1851 - 1882 (File ff.1-376)
Volume 6: Correspondence with Sir Charles Lyell, 1853 - 1869 (File ff.1-142)
Volume 7: Correspondence with Herbert Spencer, 1852 - 1900 (File ff.94-240)
Volume 8: Correspondence, c.1856-1893 (File)
Items of interest include:ff.288-455 Typescript copies of correspondence between Sir Joseph Hooker and John Tyndall, 1856-1893.
Volume 9: Correspondence with John Tyndall, 1851 - 1893 (File ff.1-190)
Items of interest include:f.1 Huxley to John Tyndall, 4 December 1851: Toronto chair; would prefer chair at Sydney University.
Volume 10: Correspondence A-B, c. 1869-1888 (File)
Items of interest include:f.12 R.D. Adams (Sydney) to Huxley, 1 August 1888: sends notes of scientific investigation...
Volume 11: Correspondence B, c.1870-1894 (File)
Items of interest includes:f.31 James Bonwick to Huxley [3 March 1870]: promise of Huxley to have Bonwick's book The last of the Tasmanians reviewed in Nature or The Academy...
Volume 12: Correspondence C (File ff.1-375)
Volume 13: Correspondence D, c.1867-1900 (File)
Items of interest includes:ff. 156-305 Correspondence with Anton Dohrn, 1867-1900.
Volume 14: Correspondence D, c.1870-1897 (File)
Includes:ff.1-201 Correspondence with Sir John Donnelly, 1870-1897.
Volume 15: Correspondence D-E (File)
Volume 16: Correspondence F, c.1847-1877 (File)
Items of interest include:f.120 William Flower to Huxley, 27 November 1877: publication by R. Owen of Researches on the fossil remains of the extinct animals of Australia without acknowledgment to the Royal Society...
Volume 17: Correspondence G-H, c.1850-1886 (File)
Items of interest includes:f.72 Huxley to John Goodsir, 20 January 1850: sends paper on Medusae with account of his work on HMS Rattlesnake (draft)...
Volume 18: Correspondence H, c.1851-1852 (File)
Items of interest includes:f.91 G.P. Heath (Sydney) to Huxley, 17 August 1851: news from an old shipmate on HMS Rattlesnake...
Volume 19: Correspondence I-K, c.1850-1888 (File)
Items of interest include:f.9 George Inskip (Plymouth) to Huxley, 13 June 1881: HMS Rattlesnake shipmate sends photograph of a painting of the ship...
Volume 20: Correspondence K, c.1871-1908 (File)
Items of interest includes:ff.1-208 Correspondence with Sir James Knowles, 1871-1908.
Volume 21: Correspondence L, c.1872-1907 (File)
Items of interest includes:ff.39-170 Correspondence with E. Ray Lankester, 1872-1907...
Volume 22: Correspondence L-M, c.1849-1893 (File)
Items of interest include correspondence with Archibald McClatchie, William S. Macleay, Walter Mantell, A. Patchett Martin and Nicholas von Miklucho-Maclay.
Volume 23: Correspondence M-O, c.1879 (File)
Items of interest includes:f.109 Sir Ferdinand von Mueller (Melbourne) to Huxley, 8 June 1879: asks Huxley to support candidature of Prof. F. McCoy at Royal Society.
Volume 24: Correspondence P-Q, c.1893-1896 (File)
Items of interest include:f.25 Thomas Parker (Dunedin) to Huxley, 30 October 1893: Sends anatomical papers; biography of his father William K. Parker FRS...
Volume 25: Correspondence R, c.1849 (File)
Items of interest includes:f.68 Huxley (Sydney) to Sir John Richardson, [1849]:Sends paper on Medusae for acceptance by the Royal Society. (draft)
Volume 26: Correspondence S, c.1851-1875 (File)
Items of interest include:f.235 Reverend Arthur Stanley to Huxley, 20 October 1875: requests references to accounts of survey of New Guinea by his brother Captain Owen Stanley...
Volume 27: Correspondence S-T, c.1851-1880 (File)
Items of interest include:ff.293-318 Letters (8) from Charles Thomson written during HMS Challenger expedition, 1873-1875...
Volume 28: Correspondence T-W, c.1894 (File)
Items of interest include:f.32 Thomas Townend to Huxley, 1 August 1894: asks Huxley to contribute article to Melbourne Argus.
Volume 29: Correspondence W-Z, c.1860-1874 (File)
Items of interest include:f.31 Rudolph von Willemoes-Suhm (Cape York) to Huxley, 2 September 1874:would like to remain in England after voyage; new species found...
Volume 30: Correspondence W-Z, c.1850-1873 (File)
Items of interest include correspondence with Admiralty, Col. Edward Sabine, W.S. Macleay, Duke of Northumberland, Sir Charles Lyell and Philip Sharpe.
Subseries Sections II-III. Supplementary Letters and Personal Papers, 1845 - 1849
Volume 31, 1848 - 1849 (File)
Includes:...
Subseries Section IV. Anthropology and Ethnology
Volume 33 (ff. 1-246) (File)
Subseries Section V. Biology, c.1848
Volume 34, c.1848 (File)
Items of interest include:f.1 On the anatomy and physiology of Physalia, and its place in the system of animals, [1848]...
Volume 40 (File)
Items of interest include:f.132 List of scientific papers and drawings left on board HMS Challenger by the late R. Willemoes-Suhm...
Subseries Section VI. Education
Subseries Section VII. Fisheries
Subseries Section VIII. Geology and Palaeontology
Subseries Section IX. Philosophy and Ethics
Subseries Section X. Theology and Biblical criticism
Subseries Section XI. Various Subjects
Subseries Section XII. Notebooks and Diaries
Volumes 52-55, 57-59 (File)
Volume 62 (File)
Items of interest include:Commonplace book of Henrietta Huxley, including reminiscences of her first meeting with Huxley in Sydney in 1847.
Subseries Section XII. Drawings, 1827 - 1870
Sketchbook (File Vol.71)
Sketchbook containing about 50 original drawings and watercolours by Huxley and four lithographs from drawings of Huxley. The subjects are chiefly Australian landscapes and Indigenous Australians and Maoris. There are also sketches of the Kennedy Expedition (1848) and a painting of 'Holmwood', the home of Henrietta Heathorn. The lithographs, published in 1852 comprise (1) Funeral screen, Mount Ernest, Torres Strait (2) Hut on Brierly Island, Louisiade Archipelago (3) Village of Tassai, New Guinea (4) Catamaran and natives of Bremer Island.
Pocket sketchbooks containing watercolours made in Egypt, 1827 (File Vol.75-76)
Pocket book containing pen and pencil sketches, 1870 (File Vol.77)
Subseries Section XVI. Posthumous papers, 1895 - 1925
Newspaper cutting book containing obituaries and articles on Huxley, 1895 (File Vol.81)
Newspaper book containing articles about Huxley (File Vol.82)
Other articles, 1895 - 1925 (File Vol.83)
Includes newspaper articles about Huxley's life as well as papers regarding T.H. Huxley and General Booth.
Series 2. Correspondence with Henrietta Heathorn, 1847 - 1854
The correspondence between Huxley and Heathorn dates from October 1847 to November 1854 and comprises 289 letters. In addition, there is a copy of Huxley's diary on HMS Rattlesnake, April – October 1850 (item 128). 127 of the letters were written in 1847-50. In this period Huxley mostly wrote to Heathorn while he was at sea or visiting such places as Moreton Bay, Rockingham Bay, Trinity Bay, Cape York, Port Phillip, the Bay of Islands and the Falkland Islands. A few were written when he was staying in Sydney. Most of his post-Rattlesnake letters were written from London. Heathorn wrote from her home, 'Holmwood', in Newtown, Sydney, except in 1850-53, when she was living in Bathurst...
Series 3. Scientific Papers, 1840 - 1894
Recorded as Series 17-19, 21 in Imperial College London finding-aid.
Subseries. Voyage of HMS Rattlesnake, diaries and sketchbooks, 1846 - 1850
HMS Rattlesnake Notebook, 1846 - 1850 (File)
Originally comprising bound notebooks and drawing books which were rebound into one volume. The AJCP filmed these documents as one volume...
Subseries. Scientific notebooks, papers and correspondence, 1st Series, 1855 - 1885
Botanical, 1870 - 1882 (File Vol. 1)
Invertebrata (File Vol. 2)
Invertebrata, 1855 - 1885 (File Vol. 3)
Crustacea, 1878 - 1881 (File Vol. 4)
Vertebrata, 1874 - 1878 (File Vol. 5)
Marsipobranchii and Pisces, 1858 - 1862 (File Vol. 6)
Teleostei, 1882 - 1884 (File Vol. 7)
Amphibia, 1858 (File Vol. 8)
Reptilia and Aves (File Vol. 9)
Mammalia, 1879 (File Vol. 10)
Rodentia, Hyrax, Sirenia and Proboscidea (File Vol. 11)
Includes notes on the dugong and a sketch of the heart of a dugong
Carnivora, chiefly Canidae, 1856 - 1880 (File Vol. 12)
Carnivora and Cetacea with Zeuglodon, 1857 - 1880 (File Vol. 13)
Primates, 1859 - 1864 (File Vol. 14)
Volume 15: Notes and Correspondence: Anthropology, 1866 - 1872 (File Vol. 15)
Items of interest includes:f.113 Lord Canterbury (Melbourne) to Lord Granville, 20 May 1870: difficulties of obtaining photographs of Australian Aboriginals for Huxley. (Copy)...
Volume 16: Notes and Correspondence: Anthropology, 1864 - 1875 (File Vol. 16)
Items of interest include:...
Subseries. Scientific notebooks, papers and correspondence, 2nd Series, 1840 - 10 October 1894
Penicillium, 1874 - 1875 (File Vol.4-5)
Infusoria, 1874 (File Vol.6)
Hirudinea, 1877 (File Vol.7)
Crustacea, 1879 - 1880 (File Vol.8-9)
Molluscan development (File Vol.10)
Lamellibranchiata, 1847 - 1882 (File Vol.11)
Polyplacophora (File Vol.12)
Gasteropoda, 1876 (File Vol.13)
Cephalopoda, 1880 (File Vol.15)
Amphioxus, 1875 (File Vol.16)
Marsipobranchii, 1876 (File Vol.17)
Petromyzon, 1876 (File Vol.18)
Teleostei, 1883 - 1884 (File Vol.23-24)
Salmonidae, 1880 - 1883 (File Vol.25-26)
Physiostomi (File Vol.27)
Clupeidae, 1881 (File Vol.28-29)
Lectures, 1872 - 1873 (File Vol.31)
Labyrinthodontia, 1865 - 1867 (File Vol.33)
Lectures, 1872 - 1873 (File Vol.34)
Lectures, 1872 - 1873 (File Vol.35)
Lacerta, Crocodilia, Ratitae (File Vol.39)
Mammalia (File Vol.44-45)
Mammalia, especially Monotremata (File Vol.46)
Includes observations on an Australian specimen of Echidna [1880]
Insectivora (File Vol.47)
Rodentia (File Vol.48-50)
Mammalia, 1875 (File Vol.53-54)
Canidae, 1880 (File Vol.56)
Saprolegnia, 1882 (File Vol.57)
Lectures, 1862 - 1866 (File Vol.58)
Lectures, 1866 - 1868 (File Vol.59)
Fullerian Lectures, 1866 - 1867 (File Vol.60)
Lectures, 1866 - 1876 (File Vol.61)
Lectures, 1869 (File Vol.62)
Lectures, 1869 - 1870 (File Vol.63)
London Institution lectures, 1869 (File Vol.64-65)
Lectures, 1869 (File Vol.66)
Lectures, 1871 (File Vol.67)
London Institution lectures, 1872 (File Vol.68)
Lectures, 1872 - 1878 (File Vol.69)
Edinburgh lectures, 1875 (File Vol.70)
Lectures, 1877 - 1878 (File Vol.71)
Lectures, 1878 - 1879 (File Vol.72)
Lectures, 1879 (File Vol.73)
Lectures, 1880 - 1881 (File Vol.74)
Lectures, Sauropsida, 1881 - 1882 (File Vol.75)
Lectures, summer course, 1882 (File Vol.76)
Lectures, physiology, 1882 (File Vol.77)
Lectures, 1882 - 1883 (File Vol.78)
Lectures, mainly Lepus, 1883 - 1886 (File Vol.79)
Lectures, 1885 (File Vol.80)
Lectures, Fungi (File Vol.81)
Lectures, Species and races, 1860 - 1863 (File Vol.82)
Various papers (File Vol.83)
Some unsolved problems in geology (File Vol.84)
Geography and geology (File Vol.85)
Fossil fishes (File Vol.86-88)
Labyrinthodontia (File Vol.89)
Crocodilia (File Vol.90-91)
Fossil Crocodilia (File Vol.92)
Pterodactylia (File Vol.94)
Plesiosauria (File Vol.95)
Dicynodontia (File Vol.96)
Ceratochelys Sthenurus (File Vol.99)
Fossil mammals (File Vol.100)
Notes on Italian prehistory (File Vol.101)
Ethnology (File Vol.102-103)
Anthropometry (File Vol.104-105)
Origins of biology (File Vol.106)
Drawings of plants (File Vol.107)
Gentiana (File Vol.108-113)
Pinus and Larix (File Vol.115)
Deep sea soundings (File Vol.116-117)
Primates (File Vol.118-120)
Correspondence (File Vol.121)
Includes a letter to Austin N. Cooper (Tamworth, NSW), 10 October 1894 enclosing a photograph of the skull of an Australian Aboriginal individual.
Miscellaneous papers (File Vol.122)
Notebook, 1840 (File Vol.123)
Notebook, 1847 (File Vol.124)
Notebook, 1856 (File Vol.125)
Notebook, 1867 (File Vol.126)
Drawing book (File Vol.127)
Notebook, 1884 (File Vol.128)
Subseries. Drawings and photographs, March 1847 - 1870
Protozoa and Botany (File Box A)
Coelenterata, Brachiostomata, Echinodermata, Mollusca, c.1847-1849 (File Box B)
Items of interest include:f.28.2 Oliva, 23 April 1848...
Vermes and Arthropoda with Peripatus (File Box C)
Pisces with Tunicata and Amphioxus (File Box D)
Amphibia, Reptilia, Aves (File Box E)
Anthropological photographs (File Box G)
Items of interest:ff.32-71 Includes Pelew and Caroline Islands.
Anthropological photographs, 1864 - 1870 (File Box H)
Items of interest include:ff.91-101 C.A. Woolley. Australian Aboriginals, August 1866...
