HMS Rattlesnake (1822)
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HMS Rattlesnake was an Atholl-class 28-gun sixth-rate corvette of the Royal Navy launched in 1822. She made a historic voyage of discovery to the Cape York and Torres Strait areas of northern Australi
Rattlesnake, painted by Sir Oswald Walters Brierly, 1853
The capture of Chinhai on 10 October 1841, showing HMS Rattlesnake (centre)
Thomas Henry Huxley
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Thomas Henry Huxley was an English biologist and anthropologist who specialised in comparative anatomy. He has become known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evoluti
HMS Rattlesnake (1822)
…in 1845. The captain on the voyage to northern Australia and New Guinea from 1846 to 1850 was Owen Stanley. Also aboard were John Thomson as Surgeon, Thomas Henry Huxley as Assistant Surgeon ("surgeon's mate", but in practice marine naturalist), John MacGillivray as botanist and Oswald Walters Brierly as artist. T. H…
Woodburytype print of Huxley (1880 or earlier)
Huxley, aged 21
HMS Rattlesnake by the ship's artist Oswald Brierly
Australian woman: Pencil drawing by Huxley