To T. H. Huxley 23 January [1863 or 1864]
Summary
THH’s efforts to obtain Copley Medal for CD fail. Thanks THH for kind words of sympathy.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 23 Jan [1863-4] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 254) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2662 |
To Thomas Henry Huxley 10 [January 1863]
Summary
CD overwhelmed by THH’s praise.
Agrees with his reservations about species theory but not wholly about sterility and gives his reasons for differing.
On Natural History Review, Hugh Falconer, and R. Owen.
Has written a review [Collected papers 2: 87–92] of H. W. Bates’s paper ["Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon valley", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 23 (1862): 495–566].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 10 [Jan 1863] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 183) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3852 |
To T. H. Huxley [before 25 February 1863]
Summary
Two criticisms (one by Henrietta Darwin) of THH’s Lectures [to working men].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | [before 25 Feb 1863] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 181) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3896 |
To T. H. Huxley [8 February 1863]
Summary
On six-fingered men: suspects increase confined to metacarpals and digits. Has asked James Paget to look it up.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | [8 Feb 1863] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 19) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3973 |
To T. H. Huxley 16 February [1863]
Summary
It is not carpal or tarsal bones that are increased [in six-fingered men] but generally only the digits and metacarpals.
Pectoral fins of fish and sharks.
Asks THH to check P. M. Roget’s statement that there is a rudiment of a sixth digit in frogs.
[P.S. missing from original.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 16 Feb [1863] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 200) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3987 |
To T. H. Huxley [after 16 February 1863]
Summary
A note reminding THH to examine the rudiment of the 6th toe on the hind foot of a Batrachian.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | [after 16 Feb 1863] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 202) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3992F |
To T. H. Huxley 18 [February 1863]
Summary
Thanks for "monkey book" [Evidence as to man’s place in nature (1863)].
Must wait till he has finished Lyell [Antiquity of man (1863)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 18 [Feb 1863] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 173) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3996 |
To T. H. Huxley 26 [February 1863]
Summary
Praise of Man’s place.
Owen’s muddling letter in Athenæum [21 Feb 1863, pp. 262–3].
Is disappointed in Lyell’s excessive caution on species and origin of man [in Antiquity of man].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 26 [Feb 1863] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 191) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4013 |
To T. H. Huxley 27 June [1863]
Summary
Has caught a frog and examined its possibly rudimentary toe. Asks THH if he will dissect it.
Has heard THH is abused in Edinburgh Review and in Anthropological Review [reviews of Man’s place in nature, Edinburgh Rev. 117 (1863): 541–69 and Anthrop. Rev. 1 (1863): 107–17].
Owen on heterogeny and the aye-aye.
Has been very ill.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 27 June [1863] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 225) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4223 |
To T. H. Huxley 3 July [1863]
Summary
Will be obliged if Flower examines specimens. States questions he wants answered.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 3 July [1863] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 229) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4232 |
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Darwin, C. R. | |
Huxley, T. H. | (10) |