Julian Huxley

Sir Julian Sorell Huxley (22 June 1887 – 14 February 1975) was a British evolutionary biologist, eugenicist, and internationalist. He was a proponent of natural selection, and a leading figure in the mid-twentieth century modern synthesis. He was secretary of the Zoological Society of London (1935–1942), the first Director of UNESCO, a founding member of the World Wildlife Fund, the president of the British Eugenics Society (1959-1962), and the first President of the British Humanist Association.

Huxley was well known for his presentation of science in books and articles, and on radio and television. He directed an Oscar-winning wildlife film. He was awarded UNESCO's Kalinga Prize for the popularisation of science in 1953, the Darwin Medal of the Royal Society in 1956, and the Darwin–Wallace Medal of the Linnaean Society in 1958. He was also knighted in the 1958 New Year Honours, a hundred years after Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace announced the theory of evolution by natural selection. In 1956 he received a Special Award from the Lasker Foundation in the category Planned Parenthood – World Population. Short biography.

A Guide to the Papers of Julian Sorell Huxley by Sarah C. Bates and Mary G. Winkler. Houston, Tex.: Woodson Research Center, Rice University. Rev. ed. (June 1987) [February 1984]. LCCN 84--80123. "...with the assistance of Christina Riquelmy."

Julian Huxley’s philosophy. By John Toye and Richard Toye. In 60 Years of Science at UNESCO 1945–2005, UNESCO, 2006.

One World, Two Cultures? Alfred Zimmern, Julian Huxley and the Ideological Origins of UNESCO. By John Toye and Richard Toye. History, 95, 319: 308–331, 2010

"Guide to the Julian Sorell Huxley Papers, 1899–1980" (Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA)—"Julian Huxley papers documenting his career as a biologist and a leading intellectual. 180 boxes of materials ranging in date from 1899–1980." Extent: 91 linear feet.

"Transhumanism" in New Bottles for New Wine. London: Chatto & Windus, 1957.

Essays of a Biologist (1923) at Project Gutenberg

"The New Divination" Archived 11 February 2021 at the Wayback Machine in Essays of a Humanist. London: Chatto & Windus, 1964.

Fullerian Professorships

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Newspaper clippings about Julian Huxley in the 20th Century Press Archives of the ZBW

Works by or about Julian Huxley at Internet Archive

Works by Julian Huxley at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)