An appointment as surgeon in the navy proved
to be the entry to Huxley's great scientific career, for he was
gazetted to the "Rattlesnake", commissioned for surveying work in
Torres Straits. He was attracted by the teeming surface life of
tropical seas and his study of it was the commencement of that
revolution in scientific knowledge ultimately brought about by his
researches.
Thomas Henry Huxley was born at Ealing on May 4, 1825, and died at
Eastbourne June 29, 1895.
LECTURES AND ESSAYS BY T.H. HUXLEY
ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE CAUSES OF THE PHENOMENA OF ORGANIC NATURE
NOTICE TO THE FIRST EDITION.
The Publisher of these interesting Lectures, having made an arrangement
for their publication with Mr. J. A. Mays, the Reporter, begs to append
the following note from Professor Huxley:--
"Mr. J. Aldous Mays, who is taking shorthand notes of my 'Lectures to
Working Men,' has asked me to allow him, on his own account, to print
those Notes for the use of my audience. I willingly accede to this
request, on the understanding that a notice is prefixed to the effect
that I have no leisure to revise the Lectures, or to make alterations
in them, beyond the correction of any important error in a matter of
fact.
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