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1900RW1129London:: Macmillan 1900. 1900. 2 volumes. 8vo. viii 2 503 5; vi 2 504 4 pp. Frontis. portraits 10 plates index. Maroon gilt-stamped cloth; spine-ends worn joints split. Ownership signature of "Richard Gompertz April 1906" and another "J.M.Mo. Whatram". Good. Mixed state: first edition vol. I reprinted vol. II 1900. T. H. Huxley was next to Darwin perhaps the most important proponent of evolution in the 19th century. His 1860 debate with Samuel Wilberforce was a pivotal moment in a popularization of Darwin's theories. Leonard Huxley his son and biographer was something of a genealogical middleman — although a respected biographer in his own right Leonard was the son of one of the most famous scientists of the 19th century and the father of one of the 20th century's most famous authors Aldous Huxley and a Nobel Prize-winning physiologist Andrew Huxley. EXTRA POSTAGE MAY APPLY. Macmillan, 1900. hardcover books
1863291992London.: Williams and Norgate. 1863. 3rd thousand. Publisher’s navy stippled cloth blindstamped borders gilt spine title. Good 2.5 cm. split to front outer hinge hard bump to upper corner moderate bump to lower corner contents unmarked. 8vo.23x14.5 cm. weight: 0.8 lb. Numerous illustrations. Williams and Norgate. hardcover books
185920244London: Printed for the Ray Society 1859. First Edition. Cloth. Good. First Edition. Folio pp. viii-x 143 blank ff 24 blank; dull green library linen boards with gilt lettering on spine; boards lightly soiled and rubbed; call numbers stamped to heel of spine; library bookplate to pastedown with "Discard" stamp; four-inch tear to fore-edge of half-title leaf; embossed library stamp and pencil annotations to title leaf; embossed library stamp to p. 1; library tickets and pockets to rear endpapers; cellotape repair to top edge of last plate; else a sound ex-library copy. Illustrated with twelve uncolored lithograph plates and accompanying letterpress descriptive text. Cloth. While serving as ship's surgeon aboard the H.M.S. Rattlesnake Huxley 1825-1895 collected and studied specimens of hydrozoas in the waters off Australia New Guinea and Palermo Italy. Through careful dissections and close observation of physical relationships Huxley succeeded in bringing more detailed order to the knowledge of these minute organisms. Printed for the Ray Society unknown books