1877 - THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY - Photograph

Original Woodbury-Type Photograph

Subject: Thomas Henry Huxley

Photographer: Lock and Whitfield

London: Sampson Low, Martson, Searle, and Rivington, 1877. Original Woodbury-Type Photograph. A single leaf. Mild age-tonning to top margin, otherwise in Very Good Condition. Sheet measures approximately 10.5 inches x 8 inches (27cm x 20.5cm).

This Woodbury-type photographed portrait, presented in a cameo border, is from Thompson Cooper's book, "Men of Mark: A Gallery of Contemporary Portraits of Men Distinguished in the Senate, the Church, in Science, Literature and Art, the Army, Navy, Law, Medicine, etc."

Thomas Henry Huxley - Supporter of Darwin's Theory

Thomas Henry Huxley was one of the first adherents to Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection, and did more than anyone else to advance its acceptance among scientists and the public alike. As is evident from the letter quoted above, Huxley was a passionate defender of Darwin's theory -- so passionate that he has been called "Darwin's Bulldog". Huxley was not only the bulldog for Darwin's theory, but was a great biologist in his own right, who did original research in zoology and paleontology. Nor did he slavishly and uncritically swallow Darwin's theory; he criticized several aspects of it, pointing out a number of problems.