To T. H. Huxley 25 November [1859]
Summary
Rejoices over THH’s lecture ["On species and races, and their origin", 10 Feb 1860, Not. Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 3 (1858–62): 195–200] to be given at Royal Institution. Offers pigeon illustrations.
Adam Sedgwick has sent a "slashing" letter [2548] about Origin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 25 Nov [1859] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 74) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2554 |
To T. H. Huxley 16 December [1859]
Summary
Will bring materials for Royal Institution lecture [when he comes to London].
Plans to bring out separate detailed volumes [on his theory], starting with domestic variation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 16 Dec [1859] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 87) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2585 |
To Thomas Henry Huxley 3 January [1861]
Summary
Congratulates THH on first number of Natural History Review.
THH’s article on brain ["On the zoological relations of man with the lower animals", Nat. Hist. Rev. (1861): 67–84] completely smashes Owen.
Owen’s Leeds address [Rep. BAAS (1858): xlix–cx].
In his historical sketch of opinion on species CD has picked out some sentences [by Owen] with which he will take some revenge. CD is not bold enough to come to an open quarrel.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 3 Jan [1861] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 155, 372–6) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3041 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1859, that the brain provided certain anatomical characters by which man could be classified in a sub-class separate from the anthropoid apes. CD had criticised Owen’s classification when it was first published in 1857 (see Correspondence vol. 6, letters to J. D. Dana, 5 April [1857] , and to J. D. Hooker, …
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 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 25 November [1859]
Summary
THH’s letter about the Origin makes CD feel like a Catholic who has received extreme unction. Can now sing nunc dimittis. Had determined to abide by judgment of Lyell, Hooker, and THH.
Problem of how variations arise at all troubles him also.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 25 Nov [1859] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 72) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2553 |
From T. H. Huxley 23 November 1859
Summary
Has just finished Origin. CD has demonstrated a true cause for the production of species.
CD has loaded himself with unnecessary difficulty in adopting natura non facit saltum.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Nov 1859 |
| Classmark: | DAR 98: B11–13 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2544 |
From T. H. Huxley 15 January 1865
Summary
Thanks for [E. Eudes?] Deslongchamps’ paper.
Henry Huxley born.
Leader in Reader [4 (1864): 821] is by THH. It has got him into trouble with some of his friends.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Jan 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 305 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4745 |
From T. H. Huxley 1 May 1865
Summary
Sends Catalogue [of the collection of fossils in the Museum of Practical Geology (1865)], most of which was written in pre-Darwinian epoch [i.e., 1857].
Hears magnum opus [Variation] completely developed, though not yet born.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 May 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 306 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4824 |
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