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To T. H. Huxley   28 April 1873

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Lady Lyell’s death.

Sends names of donors of gift to THH.

The Edinburgh Review has a critical article against CD, THH, Tyndall, and H. Spencer [see 8935]. Thinks Forbes reference not worth answering.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:  28 Apr 1873
Classmark:  Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 299)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8887

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  • … CD refers to John Lubbock and Michael Foster . See letter from Herbert Spencer, 26 April  …

From T. H. Huxley   31 March 1874

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His note on brain [in man and apes for 2d ed. of Descent] nearly finished.

Has heard nothing about Dohrn.

THH has been invited to lecture in America.

Author:  Thomas Henry Huxley
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  31 Mar 1874
Classmark:  DAR 166: 332
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9380

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  • … 2d ed. (see letter to T.  H.  Huxley, 28 March [1874] and n.  3). Michael Foster was …

To T. H. Huxley   28 March [1874]

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Asks for THH’s description of brain and skull [of man and apes] for 2d ed. of Descent [supplement to ch. 7].

Asks about Dohrn affair and contributions for Naples station. Doubts subscriptions will be successful.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:  28 Mar [1874]
Classmark:  Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 293)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9376

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  • Michael Foster was attempting to help Anton Dohrn overcome the difficulty of financing his new Zoological Station in Naples (see letter

From T. H. Huxley to Anton Dohrn   15 November 1873

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THH sends to AD a draft, prepared by himself and CD, of a statement for a subscription fund to assist AD’s Naples Zoological Station.

Author:  Thomas Henry Huxley
Addressee:  Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
Date:  15 Nov 1873
Classmark:  Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 13: 249)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9412

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  • letter to G.  H.  Darwin, 15 November [1873] . A draft of this circular in CD’s hand is in the Darwin Archive–CUL (DAR 96: 163). Huxley refers to Michael Foster , …

From T. H. Huxley   6 March 1874

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Has heard from Dohrn about his financial problems. Asks CD’s advice on what to do.

THH’s article in Contemporary Review ["Universities: actual and ideal" (1874), Collected essays, vol. 3 (1894)].

Author:  Thomas Henry Huxley
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  6 Mar 1874
Classmark:  DAR 103: 193–4; Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine (Huxley: 13.256, 13.258)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9336

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  • letter (see enclosure), Dohrn told Huxley that his father was in favour of his accepting a donation raised by Huxley and CD. Francis Maitland Balfour and Albert George Dew-Smith , Cambridge students of Michael Foster , …

From T. H. Huxley   3 December 1873

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A letter from Anton Dohrn declines the proposed fund [that THH and others suggested be raised in England for marine biological station at Naples].

Hooker’s inaugural as President of Royal Society a success.

R. Owen distinguished himself in his way.

Author:  Thomas Henry Huxley
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  3 Dec 1873
Classmark:  DAR 166: 330; Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 13: 252)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9169

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  • letter from T.  H.  Huxley to Anton Dohrn, 15 November 1873 ). This enclosure is Dohrn’s reply. The cholera epidemic in Naples in 1873 lasted for about four months and resulted in over 1200 deaths ( Snowden 1995 , p.  16). William George Armstrong . Michael Foster . …
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