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 9 January [1860]
Summary
Sends ticket to pigeon show.
A quotation from Erasmus Darwin’s Zoonomia [1794, 1796] shows that he anticipated Lamarck.
G. Grote impressed by Times review [26 Dec 1859, p. 8].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 9 Jan [1860] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 96) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2646 |
To T. H. Huxley 2 [February 1860]
Summary
H. G. Bronn offers to superintend a German translation of Origin.
Bronn has reviewed Origin [Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie (1860), p. 112].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 2 [Feb 1860] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 80) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2679 |
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- … letter to T. H. Huxley, [26 January 1860] . Bronn reviewed Origin in the Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geognosie, Geologie und Petrefakten-Kunde ( Bronn 1860a ). This journal was co-edited by Bronn and Karl Cäsar von Leonhard and published by E. Schweizerbart. An offprint of the review, annotated by CD, is in the Darwin …
