To T. H. Huxley 10 June 1868
Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.
June 10 1868
My Dear Huxley
In a letter from Mr. Dallas just received he says he has just been reading Häckel’s book & thinks it one of the most remarkable of our time; & then asks wd the Ray Soc. publish a translation?1 As you see every body, I have thought this suggestion worth passing on for the chance of your agreeing with it.
The German is too difficult for ordinary mortals, though a joke to Henle who troubles the peace of all my family.2
This note requires no sort of answer.
I hope Mrs Huxley & all of you are pretty well. I often think of your little man & can fancy I see him now with the spoon sticking perpendicularly out of his mouth & his eyes as roguish eyes as those of an angel.3
As Mrs Huxley won’t sell him she might loan him to us & I wd return him with his manners highly polished.
Ever yours | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Haeckel, Ernst. 1866. Generelle Morphologie der Organismen. Allgemeine Grundzüge der organischen Formen-Wissenschaft, mechanisch begründet durch die von Charles Darwin reformirte Descendenz-Theorie. 2 vols. Berlin: Georg Reimer.
Henle, Jacob. 1855–71. Handbuch der systematischen Anatomie des Menschen. 3 vols. Brunswick: Friedrich Vieweg & Sohn.
Marginalia: Charles Darwin’s marginalia. Edited by Mario A. Di Gregorio with the assistance of Nicholas W. Gill. Vol. 1. New York and London: Garland Publishing. 1990.
Summary
W. S. Dallas asks whether Ray Society would publish translation of Haeckel’s Generelle morphologie. If THH thinks suggestion good, he might make inquiries.
Family news.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6239
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Thomas Henry Huxley
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 239)
- Physical description
- LS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6239,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6239.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 16