Sanctity: 'St Francis in Meditation' mb-height 2171 Thomas Henry Huxley was elected

Thomas Henry Huxley was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1851

From a sepia sketch

A little girl beside her points eagerly to the flowers

The depiction of Mr Bull

shows the anterior spinal cord nerve on the right hand side

Sanctity: 'St Francis in Meditation' mb-height 2171 Thomas Henry Huxley was electedSanctity: 'St Francis in Meditation', 1635 1639 (1956). St Francis of Assisi (1181 1226), founder of the Franciscan order of monks. From the National Gallery, London. A print from Ideas, a volume about the origin and early history of many things, common and less common, essential and inessential, by Readers Union, the Grosvenor Press, London, 1956.