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 |
To T. H. Huxley 17 February [1861]
Summary
Chauncey Wright’s review of Origin: A. Gray asks that THH append a list of philosophical books on subject if he accepts it for Natural History Review.
Sends Gray’s pamphlet of his (republished) reviews [Natural selection not inconsistent with natural theology (1861)] for notice.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 17 Feb [1861] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 169) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3063 |
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- … 14 December [1860] , and letter from T. H. …
- … Chauncey Wright . See Correspondence vol. 8, letters to Asa Gray , 11 December [1860] and …
- … 1860] . The publishing firm of Nicholas Trübner served as the agent in England for many American works and was distributing Asa Gray’s pamphlet ( A. Gray 1861a ). Williams and Norgate published the Natural History Review . The letter …
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 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 [9 December 1859]
Summary
Sends enclosure [unspecified].
Reminds THH to mention [German] translation [of Origin] when he writes to R. A. von Kölliker.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | [9 Dec 1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 145: 189 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2574 |
To T. H. Huxley 22 November [1860]
Summary
Has had a good letter from Robert McDonnell. Thinks he will be converted in time.
Impatient to see first number of Natural History Review.
Murray wants a new edition of Origin immediately.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 22 Nov [1860] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 147) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2994 |
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- … further discussed in the letter to Charles Lyell, 24 November [1860] . The first volume in …
- … History Review . See letter to T. H. Huxley, 16 November [1860] and n. 11. CD was …
- … about Baer’s general approval of Origin in the letter from T. H. Huxley, 6 August 1860 . …
- … Beer ed. 1959). In his letter to T. H. Huxley, 16 November [1860] , CD asked about the …
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 11 December [1860]
Summary
Forwards A. Gray’s letter [inquiring whether THH would be interested in printing Chauncey Wright’s review of Origin].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 11 Dec [1860] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 166) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3018 |
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 |
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- … the enclosure with the letter to Asa Gray, 1 February [1860] ( Correspondence vol. 8). …
- … Correspondence vol. 8, letter to Charles Lyell, 10 January [1860] and n. 3. In Origin 2d …
- … 1860 ( T. H. Huxley 1860 ). See Correspondence vol. 7, letters to T. H. Huxley, 16 …
- … See Correspondence vol. 8, letter to J. D. Hooker, [22 January 1860] . Emma Darwin ’s …
- … letter was previously published in Correspondence vol. 8 without the enclosure, which was found subsequently. The second edition of Origin was published by John Murray on 7 January 1860 ( …
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 |
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- … December 1860, as related in a letter of 19 December 1860 to Joseph Dalton Hooker : ‘I was …
- … Correspondence vol. 8, letter to T. H. Huxley, 20 July [1860] . CD’s annotated copies …
- … Correspondence vol. 8, letters to T. H. Huxley, 16 November [1860] and 22 November [ …
- … 1860. See Correspondence vol. 8. The postscript, although on a separate leaf, is clearly related to the topics discussed in the letter ( …
To T. H. Huxley 16 November [1860]
Summary
Thanks THH for his lecture ["On the study of zoology", Lay sermons, addresses and reviews (1870), pp. 104–31]. Best exposé and classification of the higher objects of natural history he has ever read. On reading and observation.
Henrietta’s lack of improvement.
R. McDonnell’s work on rays and electric organs of fishes.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 16 Nov [1860] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 145) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2986 |
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 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 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 |
From T. H. Huxley 6 August 1860
Summary
Announces great ally for CD: K. E. von Baer "worth all the Owens & Bishops that ever were pupped". Quotes Baer: "J’ai énoncé les mêmes idées que M. Darwin", but based only on zoological geography.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Aug 1860 |
| Classmark: | DAR 98 (ser. 2): 31–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2891 |
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 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 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 [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 25 December [1859]
Summary
Henry Holland and others have attacked his reasoning from analogy to one primordial created form – by which CD means only that we know nothing of how life originated. The reasoning seems probable to him, so he has kept it in.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 25 Dec [1859] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 90) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2603 |
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| Huxley, T. H. | (45) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (52) |
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Darwin in letters, 1860: Answering critics
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On 7 January 1860, John Murray published the second edition of Darwin’s Origin of species, printing off another 3000 copies to satisfy the demands of an audience that surprised both the publisher and the author. It wasn't long, however, before ‘the…
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- … On 7 January 1860, John Murray published the second edition of Darwin’s Origin of species , …
British Association meeting 1860
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Several letters refer to events at the British Association for the Advancement of Science held in Oxford, 26 June – 3 July 1860. Darwin had planned to attend the meeting but in the end was unable to. The most famous incident of the meeting was the verbal…
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- … Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Oxford, June–July 1860 …
Dramatisation script
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Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007
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- … Re: Design – performance version – 25 March 2007 – 1 Re: Design – Adaptation of the …
New material added to the American edition of Origin
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A ‘revised and augmented’ American edition of Origin came on the market in July 1860, and was the only authorised edition available in the US until 1873. It incorporated many of the changes Darwin made to the second English edition, but still contained…
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- … The ‘historical sketch’ printed as a preface to the American edition ( Origin US ed., pp …
Natural Selection: the trouble with terminology Part I
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Darwin encountered problems with the term ‘natural selection’ even before Origin appeared. Everyone from the Harvard botanist Asa Gray to his own publisher came up with objections. Broadly these divided into concerns either that its meaning simply wasn’t…
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- … I suppose “natural selection” was bad term but to change it now, I think, would make confusion …
Women’s scientific participation
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Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…
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- … Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants …
Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad
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At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of animals and plants under domestication, anticipating with excitement the construction of a hothouse to accommodate his increasingly varied botanical experiments…
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- … At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of …
Rewriting Origin - the later editions
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For such an iconic work, the text of Origin was far from static. It was a living thing that Darwin continued to shape for the rest of his life, refining his ‘one long argument’ through a further five English editions. Many of his changes were made in…
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- … If I lived 20 more years, & was able to work, how I sh d . have to modify the “Origin”, & …
Religion
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Design|Personal Belief|Beauty|The Church Perhaps the most notorious realm of controversy over evolution in Darwin's day was religion. The same can be said of the evolution controversy today; however the nature of the disputes and the manner in…
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- … Design | Personal Belief | Beauty | The Church Perhaps the most notorious …
The Lyell–Lubbock dispute
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In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in his book Prehistoric times, accused Lyell of plagiarism. The dispute caused great dismay among many of their mutual scientific friends, some of whom took immediate action…
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- … In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in his book …
From morphology to movement: observation and experiment
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Darwin was a thoughtful observer of the natural world from an early age. Whether on a grand scale, as exemplified by his observations on geology, or a microscopic one, as shown by his early work on the eggs and larvae of tiny bryozoans, Darwin was…
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- … Darwin was a thoughtful observer of the natural world from an early age. Whether on a grand scale, …
Evolution: Selected Letters of Charles Darwin 1860-1870
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This selection of Charles Darwin’s letters includes correspondence with his friends and scientific colleagues around the world; letters by the critics who tried to stamp out his ideas, and by admirers who helped them to spread. It takes up the story of…
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- … This selection of Charles Darwin’s letters includes correspondence with his friends and scientific …
Syms Covington
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When Charles Darwin embarked on the Beagle voyage in 1831, Syms Covington was ‘fiddler & boy to Poop-cabin’. Covington kept an illustrated journal of his observations and experiences on the voyage, noting wildlife, landscapes, buildings and people and,…
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- … When Charles Darwin embarked on the Beagle voyage in 1831, Syms Covington was ‘ fiddler & boy …
Referencing women’s work
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Darwin's correspondence shows that women made significant contributions to Darwin's work, but whether and how they were acknowledged in print involved complex considerations of social standing, professional standing, and personal preference.…
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- … Darwin's correspondence shows that women made significant contributions to Darwin's work, but …
Natural Science and Femininity
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Discussion Questions|Letters A conflation of masculine intellect and feminine thoughts, habits and feelings, male naturalists like Darwin inhabited an uncertain gendered identity. Working from the private domestic comfort of their homes and exercising…
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- … Discussion Questions | Letters A conflation of masculine intellect and feminine …
Darwin in letters, 1882: Nothing too great or too small
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In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and for the first time in decades he was not working on another book. He remained active in botanical research, however. Building on his recent studies in plant…
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- … In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and …
Darwin in letters, 1861: Gaining allies
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The year 1861 marked an important change in the direction of Darwin’s work. He had weathered the storm that followed the publication of Origin, and felt cautiously optimistic about the ultimate acceptance of his ideas. The letters from this year provide an…
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- … The year 1861 marked an important change in the direction of Darwin’s work. By then, he had …
Darwin and Fatherhood
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Charles Darwin married Emma Wedgwood in 1839 and over the next seventeen years the couple had ten children. It is often assumed that Darwin was an exceptional Victorian father. But how extraordinary was he? The Correspondence Project allows an unusually…
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- … Charles Darwin married Emma Wedgwood in 1839 and over the next seventeen years the couple had ten …
Darwin’s Photographic Portraits
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Darwin was a photography enthusiast. This is evident not only in his use of photography for the study of Expression and Emotions in Man and Animal, but can be witnessed in his many photographic portraits and in the extensive portrait correspondence that…
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- … Darwin was a photography enthusiast. This is evident not only in his use of photography for the …
Insectivorous Plants
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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Plants that consume insects Darwin began his work with insectivorous plants in the mid 1860s, though his findings would not be published until 1875. In his autobiography Darwin reflected on the delay that…
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- … Sources | Discussion Questions | Experiment Plants that consume insects …
