To T. H. Huxley [1860–70?]
Summary
Thanks THH for the delightful evening he gave Frank [Darwin].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | [1860–70?] |
Classmark: | Janet Huxley (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13817 |
To Thomas Henry Huxley 1 January [1860]
Summary
Will keep THH’s secret [of authorship of Times review of Origin]. It has made deep impression.
J. D. Dana’s illness.
Daily News accuses him of plagiarising Vestiges.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 1 Jan [1860] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 94) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2633 |
To T. H. Huxley 9 January [1860]
Summary
Sends ticket to pigeon show.
A quotation from Erasmus Darwin’s Zoonomia [1794, 1796] shows that he anticipated Lamarck.
G. Grote impressed by Times review [26 Dec 1859, p. 8].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 9 Jan [1860] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 96) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2646 |
To T. H. Huxley 11 January [1860]
Summary
On the problem of want of sterility in crosses of domestic varieties. Refers to discussion in Origin, pp. 267–72 ["Fertility of varieties when crossed"]. We do not know precise cause of sterility in species.
Andrew Murray has attacked Origin [see 2647].
H. C. Watson objects to natural selection on grounds of limitless diversification of species.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 11 Jan [1860] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 98) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2649 |
To T. H. Huxley 21 [January 1860]
Summary
Sends copy of 2d ed. of Origin, with list of corrections.
Is at work on "fuller work" [Variation].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 21 [Jan 1860] |
Classmark: | Janet Huxley (private collection); Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 102) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2660 |
To T. H. Huxley [26 January 1860]
Summary
Has arranged with Baily the poulterer for pigeons for THH to exhibit at Royal Institution lecture.
E. A. Darwin will subscribe to H. Spencer’s book [First principles: a system of philosophy (1862)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | [26 Jan 1860] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 119) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2673 |
To T. H. Huxley 2 [February 1860]
Summary
H. G. Bronn offers to superintend a German translation of Origin.
Bronn has reviewed Origin [Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie (1860), p. 112].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 2 [Feb 1860] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 80) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2679 |
To T. H. Huxley 4 February [1860]
Summary
Will write to H. G. Bronn accepting his offer. Asks THH to write to R. A. von Kölliker.
French arrangements fall between two stools.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 4 Feb [1860] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 105) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2685 |
To T. H. Huxley 4 March [1860]
Summary
Gardeners’ Chronicle has reprinted THH’s Times review.
W. H. Harvey made weak attack on Origin [Gard. Chron. (1860): 145–6], to which Hooker made admirable rejoinder [Gard. Chron. (1860): 170–1].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 4 Mar [1860] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 109) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2720 |
To T. H. Huxley 9 April [1860]
Summary
Owen on the branchiae of Balanidae.
The Edinburgh Review article on the Origin [by Owen, 111 (1860): 487–532] full of misrepresentations, with a brutal attack on THH.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 9 Apr [1860] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 111) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2751 |
To T. H. Huxley 11 April [1860]
Summary
On THH’s lecture at Royal Institution ["On species and races, and their origin", Not. Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 3 (1858–62): 195–200]. Praises eloquence of his conclusion.
Has sent first part of German translation of Origin to THH.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 11 Apr [1860] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 113) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2756 |
To T. H. Huxley 14 April [1860]
Summary
On THH’s "Deep-sea soundings in the North Atlantic" ["Report on the examination of specimens of bottom" in Deep-sea soundings made in H.M.S. "Cyclops", Lieut. Commander J. Dayman (1858)]. Suggests further investigations be made of deposits of calcareous organisms.
THH’s "extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science" ["The origin of species", Westminster Rev. 17 (1860): 541–70].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 14 Apr [1860] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 115) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2760 |
To T. H. Huxley [after 20 April 1860]
Summary
Asks whether THH had by mistake taken the National Review containing W. B. Carpenter’s review.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | [after 20 Apr 1860] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 255) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2765A |
To T. H. Huxley 7 May [1860]
Summary
Observations on changes in physical proportions of pigeons.
The Saturday Review of 5 May has a defence of CD and THH by "a jolly good fellow".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 7 May [1860] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 117) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2786 |
To T. H. Huxley 3 July [1860]
Summary
Has had a report on Oxford BAAS meeting from Hooker. Asks THH to write about it. Has heard he fought nobly with Owen and Bishop Samuel Wilberforce. Regrets trouble he has caused his friends.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 3 July [1860] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 121) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2854 |
To T. H. Huxley [5 July 1860]
Summary
THH’s long account of Oxford meeting. Has he no reverence for a bishop?
W. Hopkins’ review in Fraser’s Magazine is nothing new.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | [5 July 1860] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 123) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2861 |
To T. H. Huxley 20 July [1860]
Summary
On the Fraser’s Magazine review by Hopkins [see 2860] and the Quarterly Review article by Wilberforce ["Darwin’s Origin of species", 108 (1860): 225–64]. The course of opinion since Oxford BAAS meeting. Asa Gray.
Need for Natural History Review, but fears it will be a burden for THH and lessen his original work. His own problem with work: if he had other duties he would be able to do absolutely nothing in science.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 20 July [1860] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 125) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2873 |
To T. H. Huxley [30? July 1860]
Summary
Relates anecdote concerning the blind Henry Fawcett and the Bishop of Oxford; Fawcett proclaimed, within the other’s hearing, that the Bishop had not read the Origin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | [30? July 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 145: 209 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2887 |
To T. H. Huxley 8 August [1860]
Summary
News of K. E. von Baer’s support is magnificent – far outweighs Owen and Agassiz. Asks THH to tell Baer that a statement from him would be of utmost value.
R. Wagner [in an article on Louis Agassiz’s principles of classification, Göttingsche gelehrte Anzeiger (1860) pt 2: 761–800] "goes half way" between Agassiz and Origin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 8 Aug [1860] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 133) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2893 |
To T. H. Huxley 10 September [1860]
Summary
Sends Asa Gray’s review [of Origin]. Asks THH’s advice on getting it reprinted in England.
Hooker’s expedition to Syria.
Disgraceful review of Tyndall’s book in Athenæum.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 10 Sept [1860] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 135–6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2909 |