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To T. H. Huxley   10 November [1860]

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On the prospectus of Natural History Review. Suggests it might offer information on whether subjects that correspondents may wish to investigate have been done already.

Henrietta still very seriously ill.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:  10 Nov [1860]
Classmark:  Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 143)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2979

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  • Daniel Oliver , Philip Lutley Sclater , Charles Wyville Thomson , and Edward Perceval Wright . CD’s copies of the Natural History Review (1861–5) are in the Darwin Library–CUL. Huxley’s oldest son had died in September (see letter to T.  H. Huxley, 18 September [1860] ). …

To T. H. Huxley   7 December [1862]

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On THH’s Lectures to working men.

Work by Ferdinand J. Cohn on the contractile tissue of plants ["Über contractile Gewebe im Pflanzenreich" Abh. Schlesischen Ges. Vaterl. Cult. 1 (1861)] seems important. CD has come to the conclusion that there must be some substance in plants analogous to the supposed diffused nervous matter in lower animals.

[Part of P.S. missing from original.]

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:  7 Dec [1862]
Classmark:  DAR 145: 227, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 179)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3848

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  • 1860  appeared in the Natural History Review ; however an abstract was published in the Annals and Magazine of Natural History 3d ser.  11 (1863): 188–202. See, for example, letter to Daniel Oliver, [ …
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