To Thomas Henry Huxley 10 [January 1863]
Summary
CD overwhelmed by THH’s praise.
Agrees with his reservations about species theory but not wholly about sterility and gives his reasons for differing.
On Natural History Review, Hugh Falconer, and R. Owen.
Has written a review [Collected papers 2: 87–92] of H. W. Bates’s paper ["Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon valley", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 23 (1862): 495–566].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 10 [Jan 1863] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 183) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3852 |
To T. H. Huxley 18 December [1862]
Summary
Enthusiastic about Lectures IV and V [Lectures to working men (1863)].
Sends specific comments on fantail pigeon,
sterility of hybrids,
the geological section diagram.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 18 Dec [1862] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 186) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3866 |
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- … von Gärtner’s experiments on Verbascum and Zea , see Gärtner 1844 and 1849. CD’s heavily …
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| Huxley, T. H. | (2) |
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| Huxley, T. H. |
Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad
Summary
At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of animals and plants under domestication, anticipating with excitement the construction of a hothouse to accommodate his increasingly varied botanical experiments…
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- … had produced infertile hybrids in Verbascum and Zea (see Correspondence vol. 10, …
Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, by John Clunies Ross. Transcription by Katharine Anderson
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[f.146r Title page] Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle Supplement / to the 2nd 3rd and Appendix Volumes of the First / Edition Written / for and in the name of the Author of those / Volumes By J.C. Ross. / Sometime Master of a…
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- … Heki – was it seems – an 100 acres (of land) – the New Zea^la^nd equivalent for a wiseacre.” …
