HUXLEY, Thomas Henry.

Autograph Letter Signed ‘T.H.Huxley’, to Sir Henry Layard, expressing his “thorough appreciation of your work”, recalling his “immense interest in your discoveries”, continued by “more dipping into works which tell of the wonderful revival of a seemingly lost past which has so largely grown out of your work ...” 4 pp.  7 x 4 inches, folds. In good condition. Eastbourne, 22 June 1891.

Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-95), the celebrated English biologist, known as Darwin's Bulldog for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.