IF I AM TO BE REMEMBERED
The Life and Work of Julian Huxley with Selected Correspondence
by Krishua R Dronamraju (President, Foundation for Genetics Research, Houston, Texas, USA)
with a foreword by S Zuckerman and the First Julian Huxley Memorial Lecture by J Needham
Sir Julian Huxley was especially noted for his versatility – great biologist, first Director-General of UNESCO, Director of the London Zoo, bird watcher, skilled popular writer of science and a tireless champion of wildlife conservation. This book is a biographical account of Huxley as revealed through his own correspondence and the correspondence of his great contemporaries. An introductory biographical summary is followed by his and others' letters and a collection of some of his writings. A complete bibliography of Huxley is included. The book would be of great interest to all biologists, students of the United Nations, historians of science and nature conservationists.
Contents:
- Introduction
- Life and Work of Julian Huxley: Early Life and
Education
- Young Biologist
- Life and Work in Texas
- The Science of Life
- Africa
- UNESCO and Conservation
- The London Zoo
- USSR and the Lysenko Controversy
- Huxley's Popular Essays
- Biology and Humanism
- Huxley's Influence on Biology
- Summary
- Correspondence Relating to Biology
- Other Selected Correspondence
- Bibliography
- Index
Readership: Biologists, students of the United Nations, historians of science,
nature conservationists and others.
"And what a book! Dronamraju clearly has high regard and affection for Huxley, whom he met when he was a pupil and close associate of J.B.S. Haldane ... an unusual but welcome feature is that about a third of the text consists of Huxley's own correspondence."
Bernard Dixon
Medical Science Research |
| 320pp |
Pub. date: Jul 1993 |
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