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| Relationship | Name | Date - Period |
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| Father | Leonard Huxley | 1860-1933 |
| Mother | Julia Arnold | |
| Brother | Aldous Huxley | 1894-1963 |
| Half Brother | Andrew Huxley | 1917- |
| Grandfather | Thomas Henry Huxley | 1825-1895 |
| Wife | Marie Juliette Baillot | 1919 |
| Where | Why | When |
|---|---|---|
Eton | Pupil | |
Balliol College, Oxford | Student | |
Balliol College, Oxford | Lecturer in Zoology | 1910-1912 |
Balliol College, Oxford | Research Associate | 1912-1913 |
The Rice Institute, Houston, Texas, U.S.A. (United States of America) | Assistant Professor | 1913-1916 |
General Head Quarters Italy | Staff Lieutenant | 1918 |
| New College, Oxford | Fellow/Senior Demonstrator | 1919-1925 |
| Spits Bergen | Oxford University Expedition | 1921 |
| King's College, London | Professor/Hon Lecturer | 1925-1935 |
| Royal Institution | Fullerton Professor of Physiology | 1929-1929 |
| East Africa | Advisor on Native Education | 1929 |
| Oxford | Romanes Lecturer | 1943 |
| West Africa | Member of Commission of Higher Education | 1944 |
| Washington DC, U.S.A. (United States of America) | William Alanson White Lecturer | 1951 |
| Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research | Alfred P Sloan Lecturer | 1955 |
| Chicago University U.S.A. (United States of America) | Professor | 1959 |
| Coto Donana, Spain | Expedition | 1957 |
| Eastern Africa | Wild Life Conservation Adviser to Unesco | 1960 |
| Ethiopia | Leader of Unesco Mission on Wild Life Conservation | 1963 |
| Jordan | Expedition | 1963 |
| 31 Pond Street, Hampstead, London | Residence |
| Title | Genre | Date - Edition |
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| The Individual in the Animal Kingdom | 1911 | |
| Essays of a Biologist | Essay | 1923 |
| The Stream of Life | 1926 | |
| Essays in Popular Science | Essays | 1926 |
| Religion without Revelations | 1927 | |
| Animal Biology (co-wrote with J Haldane) | 1927 | |
| Animal Biology (co-wrote with J Haldane) Revised | 1957 | |
| The Science of Life (co-written with H G Wells and G P Wells) | 1929 | |
| Ants | 1929 | |
| Bird-watching and Bird Behaviour | 1930 | |
| Africa View | 1931 | |
| What Dare I Think? | 1931 | |
| An Introduction to Science (with E Andrade) vols 1-4 | 1931-1935 | |
| Problems of Relative Growth | 1932 | |
| The Captive Shrew and Other Poems | Poetry | 1932 |
| The Elements of Experimental Embryology (with G de Beer) | 1934 | |
| Scientific Research and Social Needs | 1934 | |
| If I were Dictator | 1934 | |
| The Private Life of Gannets | Film | 1934 |
| We Europeans (with A Haddon) | 1935 | |
| At the Zoo | 1936 | |
| The Living Thoughts of Darwin | 1939 | |
| The Uniqueness of Man | 1941 | |
| Democracy Marches | 1941 | |
| Evolution, The Modern Synthesis | 1942 | |
| Evolution, The Modern Synthesis, revised | 1963 | |
| Adventure in Planning | 1943 | |
| Evolutionary Ethics | 1943 | |
| On Living in a Revolution | 1944 | |
| Man in the Modern World | 1947 | |
| Soviet Genetics and the World Science | 1949 | |
| Evolution in Action | 1952 | |
| From an Antique Land | 1954 | |
| From an Antique Land, revised | 1966 | |
| Kingdom of the Beasts (with W Suschitzky) | 1956 | |
| Biological Aspects of Cancer | 1957 | |
| The Humanist Frame | 1961 | |
| Conservation of Wild Life in Central and East Africa | 1961 | |
| Essays of a Humanist | Essays | 1963 |
| The Human Crisis | 1964 | |
| Darwin and his World (with H Kettlewell) | 1965 | |
| The Wonderful World of Evolution | 1969 | |
| Memories Volume I | 1970 | |
| Memories Volume II | 1972 | |
Biographical Details and Notes
President National Union of Scientific Workers 1926-1929
Secretary Zoological Society London 1935-1942
Biological Editor for Encyclopaedia Britannica 14th edition
Supervisor of biological films for GB Instructional Ltd 1933-1936
Member of General Committee fro Lord Hailey's African Survey 1933-1938
Member of Editorial Board of 'New Naturalist' 1944
Member of Committee of National Parks 1946
Director General of Unesco 1946-1948
Galton Lecturer 1937 and 1962
Organizer of the Symposium on Ritualization in Animals and Man, for the Royal Society 1965
He was also involved in the production of scientific papers, film commentaries, television programmes, wireless discussions and lectures
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