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From T. H. Huxley   15 January 1865

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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

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  • 1859), Rachel (born 1862), and Nettie (born 1863). Huxley’s first son, Noel, had died in 1860 ( Clark 1968 , pp.  376–7). Another daughter, Ethel, was born in 1866. [T.  H.  Huxley] 1864b. See letter from J.  D.  Hooker, …

From T. H. Huxley   1 May 1865

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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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  • 1859, when Origin was published. CD had read the proof-sheets of the preface in 1857 (see Correspondence vol.  6, letter to T.  H.  Huxley, 16 December [1857] , and letter to J.  D.  Hooker, …

From T. H. Huxley   23 November 1859

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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

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  • J.  D. Hooker 9 May [1856] and 21 [May 1856] ). See also letter to T.  H. Huxley, 25 November [1859] . …
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