Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonard Huxley ◽  
Thomas Henry Huxley
Keyword(s):  
Thomas Henry Huxley

scholarly journals The Right Hon. Thomas Henry Huxley

1895 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
E. Ray Lankester
Keyword(s):  
Common Sense ◽  
Marine Biology ◽  
Active Part ◽  
Government Official ◽  
Thomas Henry Huxley ◽  
Salmon Fisheries ◽  
The Right ◽  
International Fisheries

The Journal of our Association cannot be allowed to appear without a few words in memory of our first President, the great naturalist and leader of Science, whom we all mourn.Huxley's studies in marine biology, and his position as a Government official, as well as his keen, practical common-sense, made his selection as a member of two Government Commissions on Fisheries (in 1863 and again in 1883) very appropriate. He did valuable work on those Commissions, and in 1881 was appointed, by Sir William Harcourt, to be Inspector of Salmon Fisheries. In 1883 he took an active part in the work of the International Fisheries Exhibition, and emphasized in an address given there, the fact that, whilst civilized man had brought all the resources of science to bear on the “harvest of the land,” little or nothing had been done in the same spirit for the “harvest of the sea.”

scholarly journals Thomas Henry Huxley et la Bible

2007 ◽  
pp. 103-121
Author(s):  
Christophe Duvey
Keyword(s):  
Thomas Henry Huxley

Where Is The Thomas Henry Huxley Of Environmentalists?

2002 ◽  
Vol 77 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-168
Author(s):  
Bruce Wallace
Keyword(s):  
Thomas Henry Huxley

Islands of Discovery: Scientific Curiosity in the Works of Darwin, Huxley and Wells

Dark Paradise ◽  
2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Fuller
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Pacific Islands ◽  
Charles Darwin ◽  
Thomas Henry Huxley ◽  
Scientific Curiosity ◽  
Unknown Species ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Theories Of Evolution ◽  
Descent Of Man

Intrigued by the descriptions of hitherto unknown species, Victorian naturalists embarked on Pacific journeys to study new flora and fauna. The third chapter follows a young Charles Darwin and Thomas Henry Huxley as they develop theories that would challenge the assumed boundaries between “civilized” and “savage” man. Their often overlooked travel narratives, The Voyage of the Beagleand The Voyage of the Rattlesnake respectively, displayed not only emerging theories of evolution and natural selection, but also early biological and anthropological observations that questioned whether Pacific islanders were truly so different from British ones. These radical new ideas, spurred on by later works such as Origin of the Species and The Descent of Man, influenced novelists to use the Pacific islands as a testing ground for new theories of regressive evolution. Capitalizing on the emerging genre of “science fiction,” H.G. Wells imagined the Pacific in The Island of Doctor Moreau not as an idyllic paradise but as a horrific nightmare that reduced all islanders, British and native, to their most bestial forms displaying distinctly Pacific resonances and the changing British perspectives on the islands.

Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)

2001 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 225-225
Author(s):  
Alex Sakula
Keyword(s):  
Thomas Henry Huxley

scholarly journals Answering Huxley: “now” students take a “then” exam

2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 397-400
Author(s):  
P. K. Rangachari
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Average Score ◽  
Anatomy And Physiology ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Thomas Henry Huxley ◽  
History Of ◽  
Second Year ◽  
The University ◽  
Insight Into

Twenty-eight undergraduate students in a health sciences program volunteered for an exercise in the history of examinations. They had completed a second-year course in anatomy and physiology in which they studied modern texts and took standard contemporary exams. For this historical “experiment,” students studied selected chapters from two 19th century physiology texts (by Foster M. A Textbook of Physiology, 1895; and Broussais FJV. A Treatise on Physiology Applied to Pathology, 1828). They then took a 1-h-long exam in which they answered two essay-type questions set by Thomas Henry Huxley for second-year medical students at the University of London in 1853 and 1857. These were selected from a question bank provided by Dr. P. Mazumdar (University of Toronto). A questionnaire probed their contrasting experiences. Many wrote thoughtful, reflective comments on the exercise, which not only gave them an insight into the difficulties faced by students in the past, but also proved to be a valuable learning experience (average score: 8.6 ± 1.6 SD).

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