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Generally credited with having done more to popularize the doctrine of Evolution than any other man, Huxley was not a scientist of Darwin's stature, was well content to dub himself "Darwin's bulldog." He had other claims to renown. In biology and paleontology he became one of the foremost groundbreakers...
...When Huxley's son wrote his distinguished father's official Life and Letters, he thought he had winnowed all the posthumous grain from the stack of his father's papers, but apparently he overlooked a youthful diary. Grandson Julian, also a biologist, found it after his father's death, last week published it with an introduction and notes. Huxley's Diary of the Voyage oj H. M. S. Rattlesnake, like Darwin's Diary of the Voyage...
Beagle, told what a young scientist thinks about on the threshold of his career. But Huxley's diary, unlike Darwin's, was not preoccupied by scientific fact nor visited by intimations of a great theory. A young medico of wide interests, with a keen eye and a susceptible heart, he wrote surprisingly little about his first big research...
...Huxley sailed from England in 1846 as assistant medical officer aboard...
Rattlesnake, a 28-gun warship with a crew of 180 officers and men, on a cruise to Australia and the islands of New Guinea and the Louisiade. Huxley was just...