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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 J. D. Hooker 13 January [1863]
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]
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
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
letter | (55) |
Huxley, T. H. | (15) |
Hooker, J. D. | (11) |
Lyell, Charles | (6) |
Gray, Asa | (3) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (3) |
Darwin, C. R. | (55) |
Huxley, T. H. | (15) |
Hooker, J. D. | (11) |
Lyell, Charles | (6) |
Gray, Asa | (3) |