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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

Matches: 5 hits

  • … To T.  H.  Huxley   3 July [1863] …
  • … between this letter and the letter from T.  H.  Huxley, 2 July 1863 . See letter …
  • … from T.  H.  Huxley, 2 July 1863 . William Henry Flower . …
  • … See letter to T.  H.  Huxley, 27 June [1863] and letter from T.   …
  • H.  Huxley, 2 July 1863 . …

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

Matches: 8 hits

  • … To T.  H.  Huxley   27 June [1863] …
  • … this letter and the letter from T.  H.  Huxley, 2 July 1863 . CD refers to Roget 1834 , 1: …
  • … 544, and to the letter to T.  H.  Huxley, 16 February [1863] . See also …
  • … letter to T.  H.  Huxley, [after 16 February 1863] . Rarissima avis: ‘the rarest bird’; …
  • … Blake. See also letter from T.  H.  Huxley, 2 July 1863 . CD’s annotated copy of the issue …
  • … Blake’s anonymous review of T.  H.  Huxley 1863b in the April 1863 number of the Edinburgh …
  • … T.  H.  Huxley 1863b in more virulent terms ( Anthropological Review 1 (1863): 153–62). …
  • … appeared in May 1863. It contained an anonymous review of T.  H.  Huxley 1863b that, while …

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

Matches: 3 hits

  • … To T.  H.  Huxley   [after 16 February 1863] …
  • … and the letter to T.  H. Huxley, 16 February [1863] . It may have been the postscript to …
  • … that letter. See letter to T.  H.  Huxley, 16 February [1863] . …

To W. H. Flower   11 July [1863]

Summary

Discusses rudimentary sixth toe of frogs.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Henry Flower
Date:  11 July [1863]
Classmark:  John Innes Foundation Historical Collections
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4559

Matches: 4 hits

  • … to answer CD’s questions (see letter from T.  H.  Huxley, 2 July 1863 , and letter to T.   …
  • H.  Huxley, 3 July [1863] ). The ‘great men’ referred to in Flower’s letter have not been …
  • … letter and the letter to T.  H.  Huxley, 3 July [1863] . The letter from Flower has not …
  • … dissection (see letters to T.  H.  Huxley, 16 February [1863] and 27 June [1863] ). Huxley …

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

Matches: 3 hits

  • … To T.  H.  Huxley   18 [February 1863] …
  • … the publication of T.  H.  Huxley 1863b on 20 February 1863 ( Publishers’ Circular , 16  …
  • … place in nature ( T.  H.  Huxley 1863b ) was published in February 1863 (see n.  1, above) …

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

Matches: 5 hits

  • … To T.  H.  Huxley   26 [February 1863] …
  • … and the letter from T.  H.  Huxley, 25 February 1863 . CD refers to Huxley’s Evidence as …
  • … nature (see letter from T.  H.  Huxley, 25 February 1863 , n.  4). In his letter to CD of …
  • H Huxley 1863a . CD refers to Owen’s letter published in the Athenæum on 21 February 1863, …
  • … T.  H.  Huxley 1863b , pp.  113–18). In his letter in the Athenæum , 21 February 1863, …

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

Matches: 3 hits

  • … To T.  H.  Huxley   16 February [1863] …
  • … this letter and the letter from T.  H.  Huxley, 20 February 1863 . Huxley was professor of …
  • … in London (see letter to T.  H.  Huxley, [8 February 1863] ). In his letter to Huxley of [ …

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

Matches: 3 hits

  • … To T.  H.  Huxley   [8 February 1863] …
  • … 2: 16, and letter to T.  H. Huxley, 16 February [1863] ). CD’s letter to James Paget has …
  • … to H.  B.  Dobell, 16 February [1863] , and by the reference to CD’s visit to Huxley’s …

To J. D. Hooker   13 January [1863]

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Summary

Acquired characteristics.

Huxley’s lectures: good on induction, bad on sterility, obscure on geology.

Asa Gray on slavery.

Falconer’s partial conversion.

Alphonse de Candolle on Origin.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  13 Jan [1863]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 179
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3913

Matches: 5 hits

  • … 1863a . See letter to T.  H.  Huxley, 10 [January 1863] , and letter from J.  D. Hooker, [ …
  • … 1761–6 ). See letter to T.  H.  Huxley, 10 [January 1863] , and Correspondence vol.  10, …
  • … and letter to T.  H.  Huxley, 10 [January 1863] and n.  4. Letter from Asa Gray, 29  …
  • 1863, CD began writing up his ‘Chapter on Inheritance’ for Variation , eventually published as chapters 12–14 ( Variation 2: 1–84; see ‘Journal’ ( Correspondence vol.  11, Appendix II)). Thomas Henry Huxley presented an evening lecture series for working men at the Museum of Practical Geology in London during November and December 1862; the lectures were published as T.  H.   …
  • H.  Huxley 1863a , pp.  153–6. While arguing that ‘man differs to no greater extent from the animals which are immediately below him than these do from other members of the same order’, Huxley wrote that it was largely the power of language that distinguished man ‘from the whole of the brute world’ ( ibid. , pp.  154–5). See letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [12 January 1863] , …

To John Lubbock   [1 January 1864]

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Summary

JL’s review of Huxley ["Lectures to working men", Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 4 (1864)].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:  [1 Jan 1864]
Classmark:  DAR 263: 61 (EH 88206505)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4375

Matches: 3 hits

  • … vol.  11, letter to T.  H. Huxley, 10 [January 1863] . Lubbock 1865b . CD probably saw the …
  • … is in the Darwin Library–CUL.   T.  H. Huxley 1863  was the bound version of Huxley’s …
  • 1863] , and Appendix II). Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) for 1 January 1864 records: ‘acid sickness 8 – good day billiards’. Lubbock’s review of Thomas Henry Huxley’s On our knowledge of the causes of the phenomena of organic nature ( T.  H.   …

To Lawson Tait   2 March 1876

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Summary

Thanks RLT for his letter. CD took much trouble over his two cases [regrowth of amputated supernumerary digits, in Variation] but the evidence was shaky.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:  2 Mar 1876
Classmark:  DAR 147: 527
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10414

Matches: 1 hit

  • … see, for instance, Correspondence vol. 11, letter to T. H. Huxley, 16 February [1863] ). …

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

Matches: 2 hits

  • … To T.  H.  Huxley   [before 25 February 1863] …
  • H.  Huxley 1863a are in the Darwin Library–CUL (see Marginalia 1: 423–4). See n.  2, above. CD had been working on atavism in the course of preparing a draft of the chapters on inheritance for Variation (see Variation 2: 28–61, and letter from Henry Holland [10 February 1863] ). …

To Annie Dowie   27 July 1875

Summary

Has previously quoted details concerning the regrowth of her amputated extra digit in Variation [2: 14–15]. The case has since been disputed, so CD, who is revising his work, asks for some fuller details.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Anne (Annie) Chambers; Anne (Annie) Dowie
Date:  27 July 1875
Classmark:  Bonhams (dealers) (13 March 2002)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10096

Matches: 1 hit

  • … 1863 , and letter to T.  H.  Huxley, [8 February 1863] , n.  3). See also letter from …

To T. H. Huxley   11 April [1864]

Summary

Thanks for Lectures on the elements of comparative anatomy [1864].

If Owen wrote article on "Oken" [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 8th ed.] and French work on archetype he never did a baser act [see ML 1: 246 n.].

Bad health lately.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:  11 Apr [1864]
Classmark:  Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 203)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4459

Matches: 2 hits

  • … the phenomena of organic nature ( T.  H.  Huxley 1863 ; see also letter to John Lubbock, [ …
  • H.  Huxley, [before 3 October 1857] ; Correspondence vol.  11, letter to J.  D.  Hooker, [29 March 1863] …

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

Matches: 1 hit

  • … To T.  H.  Huxley   23 January [1863 or 1864] …

To T. H. Huxley   [17 July 1865]

Summary

Has read Buffon; whole pages are like his own. But CD is not converted to non-belief. There is a fundamental distinction between Pangenesis and Buffon. Fears he may not resist publishing it, but will be cautious.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:  [17 July 1865]
Classmark:  Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 221)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4872

Matches: 2 hits

  • … vol.  11, letter from T.  H.  Huxley, 2 July 1863  and n.  14) and a second English …
  • … in nature ( T.  H. Huxley 1863a ). A pirated American edition was published in 1863 (see …

To Charles Lyell   6 March [1863]

Summary

Comments at length on CL’s book [Antiquity of man (1863)]. CD is "greatly disappointed that you have not given judgment and spoken fairly out what you think about the derivation of species".

Lists large number of queries concerning minor points.

Praises especially the chapters on language and glaciers.

Comments on the temperature of Africa during the glacial period, especially with regard to the views of Hooker.

Mentions Owen’s paper on the aye-aye [Rep. BAAS 32 (1862) pt 2: 114–16].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  6 Mar [1863]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.289)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4028

Matches: 2 hits

  • … 1863] , and letter to T.  H. Huxley, 26 [February 1863] . CD refers to James Manby Gully’s …
  • … 1863] , and letter to T.  H.  Huxley, 26 [February 1863] . Lyell’s letter has not been …

To W. G. Kemp   11 November [1874]

Summary

Responds to the correspondent's comments on natural selection.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Walter Gustav Kemp
Date:  11 Nov [1874]
Classmark:  West Berkshire Museum, Newbury (NEBYM:1986.63.1.1)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9716F

Matches: 1 hit

  • … barriers between life-forms ( T. H. Huxley 1863 , pp. 106–8). CD had investigated cases of …

To Charles Lyell   12–13 March [1863]

Summary

[On Antiquity of man] CD is "convinced that at times … you have … given up immutability". "A clear expression from you, if you could have given it, would have been potent with the public."

Objects to CL’s description of CD’s view "as a modification of Lamarck’s doctrine". Quotes Henrietta [Darwin]’s observations on this description.

Comments on CL’s controversy with Owen concerning the human brain.

The controversy between Falconer and CL.

The "wretched" review of CL [Antiquity of man, Athenæum 14 Feb 1863, pp. 219–21] and Huxley [Man’s place in nature].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  12–13 Mar [1863]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.290)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4038

Matches: 2 hits

  • … 1863] , and letter to T.  H.  Huxley, 26 [February 1863] . In a second letter to the …
  • … 219–21, and T.  H.  Huxley 1863b in the Athenæum , 28 February 1863, pp.  287–8. According …

To Horace Benge Dobell   16 February [1863]

Summary

Thanks HBD for his lectures On the germs and vestiges of disease [1861].

Thinks his reasoning that the V. M. F. ("force exhibited in the operations of life") is not a "given quantity" is satisfactory.

How far the conditions of life affect the forms of organic life puzzles CD more than any other part of his subject. Thinks he may have underrated its importance in Origin.

Asks for source of the quotation on regeneration in HBD’s work.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Horace Benge Dobell
Date:  16 Feb [1863]
Classmark:  Barton L. Smith MD (private collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3990

Matches: 1 hit

  • … 1863 , and letter to T.  H. Huxley, [8 February 1863] , n.  3). Regeneration of amputated …
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