From Henrietta Anne Huxley 1 January 1865
Summary
Has just been shown CD’s remarks on Tennyson. Upbraids CD for "Owen-like quotation" out of context, and getting source wrong. "If ""facts"" in Origin are of this sort I agree with Bishop of Oxford."
Author: | Henrietta Anne Heathorn; Henrietta Anne Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Jan 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 284 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4733 |
From T. H. Huxley 1 June 1865
Summary
MS arrived. Has glanced at it and sees he must put on his sharpest spectacles and best considering cap.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 June 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 308 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4845 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … I shall not write till I have thought well on the whole subject Ever Yours | T H Huxley …
- … Huxley, T. H. Darwin, C. R. …
- … From T. H. Huxley 1 June 1865 …
- … for Variation (see letter to T. H. Huxley, 27 May [1865] and n. 4). No letter from …
- … been found, but see the letter to T. H. Huxley, 12 July [1865] , for CD’s response to …
From T. H. Huxley 29 May 1865
Summary
Glad to read what CD sends. Any glimmer of light on those subjects is of utmost importance.
Quotes a letter from Haeckel on progress of Darwinism in Germany.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 May 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 307 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4838 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … Huxley, T. H. Darwin, C. R. …
- … your family | Ever | Yours faithfully | T H Huxley I am glad to hear the icebags are doing …
- … From T. H. Huxley 29 May 1865 …
- … and the Westminster Review . See letter to T. H. Huxley, 27 May [1865] and n. 3. …
- … pangenesis hypothesis (see letter to T. H. Huxley, 27 May [1865] ). Huxley delivered the …
- … in the Fortnightly Review ( T. H. Huxley 1865 ). Huxley refers to Ernst Haeckel . …
- … Correspondence vol. 12, letter to T. H. Huxley, 3 October [1864] and n. 2, letter to …
- … 1 September 1864] , and letter to T. H. Huxley, 3 October [1864] and n. 3). Haeckel …
- … s claim that CD was a teleologist ([T. H. Huxley] 1864c). Annotated copies of Kölliker …
From T. H. Huxley 15 January 1865
Summary
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 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … Huxley, T. H. Darwin, C. R. …
- … kind remembrances to M rs Darwin & the rest of your circle Ever Yours faithy | T H Huxley …
- … From T. H. Huxley 15 January 1865 …
- … 7 January [1865] . See letter to T. H. Huxley, 4 January [1865] , and letter to J. D. …
- … daughter, Ethel, was born in 1866. [T. H. Huxley] 1864b. See letter from J. D. …
- … 1865 and n. 6, and letter to T. H. Huxley, 4 January [1865] and n. 7. See letter from …
From T. H. Huxley 1 May 1865
Summary
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 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … yours are Ever | Yours faithfully | T H Huxley Verso of letter : ‘Kew | Hooker | Hackel on …
- … Huxley, T. H. Darwin, C. R. …
- … From T. H. Huxley 1 May 1865 …
- … Correspondence vol. 11, letter to T. H. Huxley, [before 25 February 1863] , and letter …
- … from T. H. Huxley, 25 February 1863 ). …
- … The preface to T. H. Huxley and Etheridge 1865 was written before 1859, when Origin was …
- … Correspondence vol. 6, letter to T. H. Huxley, 16 December [1857] , and letter to J. …
From T. H. Huxley 2 October 1865
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Oct 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 310 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4905 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … regards & remembrances to M rs Darwin & your family— Ever yours faithfully | T H Huxley …
- … Huxley, T. H. Darwin, C. R. …
- … From T. H. Huxley 2 October 1865 …
- … Huxley . See A. Desmond 1994–7 , 1: 290–1. Joseph Dalton Hooker had suffered a severe attack of rheumatic fever in August and had recently been recuperating at Buxton, Derbyshire (see letter from F. H. …
From Thomas Henry Huxley 1 January 1865
Summary
Sends photograph.
THH wishes he could write the popular zoology but writing is a boring and slow process when he is not interested, and he is overburdened with lectures.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Jan 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 304 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4732 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … Huxley, T. H. Darwin, C. R. …
- … remembrances to M rs Darwin Ever yours | T H Huxley Thanks for ‘für Darwin’— I had it— …
- … Bibliography Bibby, Cyril. 1959. T. H. Huxley. Scientist, humanist and educator. London: …
- … 1985–. Di Gregorio, Mario A. 1984. T. H. Huxley’s place in natural science. New Haven and …
- … See Correspondence vol. 12, letter to T. H. Huxley, 5 November [1864] . The photographs …
- … the elements of comparative anatomy ( T. H. Huxley 1864a ): ‘I don’t call that a Book … …
- … Correspondence vol. 11, letter from T. H. Huxley, 2 July 1863 ). These lectures were …
- … as Lessons in elementary physiology ( T. H. Huxley 1866 ). Huxley’s lectures ‘On the …
- … L. Huxley ed. 1900, 1: 254). T. H. Huxley 1864a . A second volume was not published. …
From T. H. Huxley 16 July 1865
Summary
Did not intend to persuade CD against publishing Pangenesis. Will not take the responsibility, nor risk being made a horrible example 50 years hence.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 July 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 309 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4875 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … Huxley, T. H. Darwin, C. R. …
- … From T. H. Huxley 16 July 1865 …
- … Press. 1985–. Paradis, James G. 1978. T. H. Huxley: man’s place in nature. Lincoln and …
- … him for criticism (see letter to T. H. Huxley, 12 July [1865] ). The letter containing …
- … found; however, see the letter to T. H. Huxley, 12 July [1865] , in which CD said he …
- … grieved to hear that you have been so ill again— Ever | Yours faithfully | T. H. Huxley …
From J. D. Hooker [15 June 1865]
Summary
Impressed by Tylor’s book [see 4836].
Encloses admirable note from Huxley on Lyell–Lubbock affair.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [15 June 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 28; Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 2: 131) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4855 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … of her illness Ever yours faithfully, | T H Huxley End of letter : ‘Kingsley— any one you …
- … letter from J. D. Hooker to T. H. Huxley, 6 June 1865 (Imperial College of Science, …
- … revised note). In the letter from T. H. Huxley to John Lubbock, 7 March 1865 (British …
- … In a letter from J. D. Hooker to T. H. Huxley of 6 June 1865 (Royal Botanic Gardens, …
From F. W. Farrar 6 November 1865
Summary
Grateful for CD’s approval of Chapters on language.
Is inclined to believe that the races of man were primordially distinct.
Author: | Frederic William Farrar |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Nov 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 35 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4933 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … from any more than a single pair’ ( T. H. Huxley 1863b , p. 117). Huxley went on to …
- … pp. 121–3). See also letter to T. H. Huxley, 12 July [1865] , n. 8. Some of Farrar’s …
- … by means of artificial selection (see, for example, [T. H. Huxley] 1860b and T. …
- … H. Huxley 1863b , pp. 147–9). Huxley’s suggestion was considered at length by CD and …
From Samuel Butler 1 October 1865
Summary
Autobiographical letter describing how, when he could not conscientiously take orders, he went to New Zealand and has now returned to England to study art.
Fascinated and delighted by Origin
and is pleased that his pamphlet [Evidence for the resurrection of Jesus Christ] pleases CD.
Author: | Samuel Butler |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Oct 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: A1–2; Butler 1923, pp. 198–201 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4904 |
From B. D. Walsh 29 May 1865
Summary
Discusses several subjects, including examples of "Unity of coloration",
the origin of gall-producing poison,
Wagner’s theory of viviparous larvae,
and stridulation in insects.
Sends a reference supporting CD’s statement in Origin that flies check propagation of horses and cattle.
Author: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 May 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 47: 179, 179a; DAR 207: 18 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4839 |
From J. D. Hooker 1 January 1865
Summary
Forwards H. T. Stainton letter for reply.
Finds many Cucurbita have tendrils with sticking ends.
The "potentiality of so many organs in plants to play so many parts is one of the most wonderful of your discoveries . . . one day it will itself play a prodigious part in the interpretation of both morphological and physiological facts".
Is disgusted with Sabine’s address [see 4708] because of its mutilation of what JDH wrote.
THH’s slashing leader in Reader ["Science and ""Church policy"" ", 4 (1864): 821] – as usual he destroys all in his path.
Encloses letter from G. H. K. Thwaites with a message for CD [see encl].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Jan 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 1–3; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Directors’ Correspondence 162: 224 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4734 |
From Ludwig Rütimeyer 3 January 1865
Summary
Regrets he has not yet finished his monograph on Bos. Has examined and discusses the Bos skull from Lord Tankerville.
Would like CD’s opinion on the conclusions in LR’s paper on fossil horses.
Author: | Karl Ludwig (Ludwig) Rütimeyer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Jan 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 227 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4736 |
From Edward Cresy 10 September 1865
Summary
Reading Carl Vogt [Lectures on man (1864)].
Vogt, though anti-Lamarck, is converted to Darwinism.
Author: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Sept 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 245 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4892 |
From Herbert Spencer 22 April 1865
Summary
Wonders whether CD might contribute, if possible, an occasional letter to the Reader to help in their effort to establish the journal.
Author: | Herbert Spencer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Apr 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 225 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4817 |
From Edward Cresy 9 June 1865
Summary
Sends Fritz Müller citation as CD requested.
Huxley is boldly proclaiming his Darwinism at Royal Institution ["Methods and results of ethnology", Not. Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 4: 460–3; also Collected essays 7 (1894)].
Author: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 June 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 244 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4856 |
From M. T. Masters 12 July 1865
Summary
Will forward Robert Caspary’s paper to CD when it is published ["Sur les hybrides obtenus par la greffe", Bull. Congr. Int. Bot. & Hortic. Amsterdam (1865): 65–80].
MTM is to become editor of Gardeners’ Chronicle.
Author: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 July 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 72 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4871 |
From Charles Lyell 16 January 1865
Summary
His view of Origin.
Belief of Duke of Argyll that substituting "variation" and "selection" for creation deifies them.
Thinks Argyll would accept evolution except for man.
A’s view of humming-birds.
Describes discussion with [Victoria,] Princess Royal of Prussia, about evolution.
New edition of Elements consistent with Origin.
Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Jan 1865 |
Classmark: | K. M. Lyell ed. 1881, 2: 384–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4746 |
From George Henslow 6 November 1865
Author: | George Henslow |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Nov 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 151 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4931 |
letter | (28) |
Huxley, T. H. | (7) |
Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
Cresy, Edward, Jr | (2) |
Butler, Samuel (b) | (1) |
Farrar, F. W. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (28) |
Huxley, T. H. | (7) |
Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
Cresy, Edward, Jr | (2) |
Butler, Samuel (b) | (1) |