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Thomas Henry Huxley (4 May 1825 – 29 June 1895) was an English biologist and anthropologist who specialized in comparative anatomy. He has become known as " Darwin's Bulldog " for his advocacy of Charles Darwin 's theory of evolution .
Thomas Henry Huxley, the initiator of the X Club, c. 1880. The X Club was a dining club of nine men who supported the theories of natural selection and academic liberalism in late 19th-century England. Thomas Henry Huxley was the initiator; he called the first meeting for 3 November 1864. [1]
Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature is an 1863 book by Thomas Henry Huxley, in which he gives evidence for the evolution of humans and apes from a common ancestor. It was the first book devoted to the topic of human evolution, and discussed much of the anatomical and other evidence.
Thomas Huxley, Old Burying Ground, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Huxley (died 4 November 1826, Halifax) was a British Army officer. He joined the 87th Foot Regiment in 1799, and was made Captain in the 4th West India Regiment in 1808, and then Captain in the 70th Foot regiment in 1819.
Thomas Huxley, one of the small group with whom Darwin had shared his theory before publication, emerged as the main public champion of evolution. He wrote a favourable review of " Origin " in The Times in December 1859, [ 13 ] along with several other articles and delivered a lecture at the Royal Institution in February 1860.
Margaret Huxley (1854–1940) was the niece of Thomas Henry Huxley, daughter of his brother William Thomas Huxley. She became a senior nurse in Dublin and is considered to be the pioneer of scientific nursing training in Ireland, after establishing nursing education in her own hospital and a few years later in a central school.
On a Piece of Chalk was a lecture given by Thomas Henry Huxley on 26 August 1868 [1] to the working men of Norwich during a meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. [2] It was published as an essay in Macmillan's Magazine in London later that year.
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