Image of the title page of Lectures on evolution : with an appendix on the study of biology / by Thomas H. Huxley. New York : J. Fitzgerald & Co., 1882. Part of the Humboldt Library of popular science literature, no. 36. Huxley took on the mission of bringing Darwin's ideas to the British public. His lectures explained evolutionary theory to the working classes and discussed its religious implications -- he coined the term "agnostic" to describe his position of reasoned doubt.
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Exhibited: "Rewriting the book of nature"
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Rewriting the book of nature and Is part of: Lectures on evolution; See related catalog record: 60830650R