THE ESSENCE OF T. H. HUXLEY: Selections from his Writings.

First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author to Brynmor Jones. Original blue cloth lettered in silver to the spine, in dustwrapper. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean throughout. In the lightly toned dustwrapper, a little rubbed and nicked to edges and extremities.

Inscribed by the author in black ink to the front free endpaper, "Sir Brynmor Jones, / with good wishes, / Cyril Bibby. / January 1968". A generous and carefully chosen selection of writings by the English biologist, anthropologist and early advocate of Darwin's theory of evolution. The biologist, Cyril Bibby (1914–87), 1959–1977 was, between 1959 and 1977, Principal of Kingston upon Hull College of Education. Sir Brynmor Jones (1903–1989), was born in North Wales and educated at University College of Wales at Bangor and at St John's College, Cambridge. In 1947 he became a professor chair at University College, where he later became Dean of Science, Deputy Principal. When the college achieved full university status in 1954, he became iPro-Vice-Chancellor and, in 1956, Vice-Chancellor. The expanded University of Hull Library, famously presided over by the poet, Philip Larkin, was named after Jones in 1967.