Thomas Henry Huxley: A Character Sketch

Thomas Henry Huxley: A Character Sketch by Leonard Huxley is a biography about an English biologist and anthropologist specializing in comparative anatomy written by his son. Excerpt: «Thomas Henry Huxley was born ten years after Waterloo, while the country was still in the backwash of the long-drawn Napoleonic wars. It was a time of material reconstruction and expansion, while social reconstruction lagged sadly and angrily behind. The year of his birth saw the first railway opened in England; it was seven years before electoral reform began, with its well-meant but dispiriting sequel in the new Poor Law.»