by Julian Huxley · Harper & Row · tapa dura · ISBN 9780060121327
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«Memories, Vol. 2» is the autobiography by Julian Huxley published by Harper & Row in hardcover (296 pages, in English).
Julian Huxley reviews in this second volume of his memoirs his career as a biologist, naturalist and popularizer, with particular attention to his time as the first director-general of UNESCO. The narrative combines science, philosophy and humanism, with recollections of his work at the London Zoo and of figures such as H. G. Wells and Aldous Huxley.
First American edition published in New York in 1970. Second volume of a two-volume autobiography.
Aimed at readers of scientific memoirs and those interested in intellectual history, humanism and twentieth-century science.
Sir Julian Sorell Huxley was an English 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.
