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 |
4.14 'Fun' cartoon, 'That troubles'
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< Back to Introduction Of all the cartoons showing Darwin as an ape, ‘That troubles our monkey again’ by John Gordon Thomson is the only one that hints, albeit playfully, at improper behaviour. Descent of Man had been criticised for its apparent…
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1.7 Ouless replica
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< Back to Introduction Following Darwin’s death in 1882, Walter William Ouless painted a replica of the portrait that had been commissioned from him by the Darwin family in 1875. This replica is signed and dated at lower left ‘W. W. Ouless 1883…
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- … Macmillan and Cambridge: Macmillan and Bowes, 1897), p. 414, ‘replica by Ouless of the picture …
