Background
Huxley, Sir Julian Sorell was born on June 22, 1887 in England. Son of Leonard Huxley.
Huxley, Sir Julian Sorell was born on June 22, 1887 in England. Son of Leonard Huxley.
Scholar Eton and Balliol College, University of Oxford (Newdigate Prize poetry 1908).
2 sons. Lecturer zoölogy Balliol College, 1910-1912. Research associate (travelling in Germany), Rice Institute, Houston, 1912-1913, assistant professor, 1913-1916. Fellow, senior demonstrator zoölogy New College, University of Oxford, 1919-1925.
Member Oxford expedition to Spitsbergen, 1921. Professor zoölogy King’s College, London, 1925-1927, honorary lecturer, 1927-1935. Fullerian professor physiology Royal Institute, England, 1926-1929.
General supervisor biological films Gaumont British Instructional, Ltd., 1933-1936, Zoöl. Film Prodns., Ltd., 1937-1942. Secretary Zoöl. Society London, advisory editor Zoo magazine, 1935-1942.
Beatty lecturer McGill University, Montreal, 1956.
Author or editor, some with others, over 40 books 1911-1975, including: The Individual in the Animal Kingdom, 1911. Religion without Revelation, review edit. 1957
Animal Biology (with J.B.S. Haldane), 1927.
The Science of Life (with H.G. and G.P. Wells), 1929. The Elements of Experimental Embryology (with G.R. de Beer), 1934. Scientific Research and Social Needs, 1934.
If I Were Dictator, 1934. T.H. Huxley’s Diary on the Rattlesnake (editor), 1935. The Living Thoughts of Darwin (with J. Fisher), 1939.
The Uniqueness of Man, 1941. Evolution, the Modern Synthesis, 2d edition., 1963. Evolutionary Ethics (Romanes lecture Oxford) 1943.
Man In the Modern World, 1947. Evolution and Ethics, 1947. Evolution in Action (editor), 1953.
The Evolutionary Process (editor), 1953. From and Antique Law review edit. 1966
The Kingdom of Beasts (with W. Suschitzky), 1956.
Secrets of Life, 1957. Biological Aspects of Cancer, 1957. New Wine in New Bottles (essays), 1957.
The Story of Evolution, 1959. The Humanist Frame (editor), 1961. Conservation of Wild Life In Central and East Africa, 1961.
Essays of a Humanist, 1964. (with H.B. Kettlewell) Darwin and His World, 1965. Aldous Huxley, 1965
Memories, Volume 1, 1970, Vol.
II, 1973. Biological editor Encyclopedia British, 14th edit. Editorial board New Naturalist series, 1944-1975. Editor (with others) Doubleday Pictorial Library of World History.
Member Oxford expedition to Spitsbergen, 1921. Member Commission Higher Education W. Africa, 1944. Member Committee National Parks United Kingdom, 1945-1946.
Married Marie Juliette Baillot, 1919.