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From T. H. Huxley   1 May 1865

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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

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  • Emma Darwin read and commented on several of Huxley’s publications (see, for example, Correspondence vol.  11, letter to T.  H.  Huxley, [before 25 February 1863] , …

From Thomas Henry Huxley   1 January 1865

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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

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  • Emma Darwin on Huxley’s recently published Lectures on the elements of comparative anatomy ( T.  H.  Huxley 1864a ): ‘I don’t call that a Book … I want something that people can read …’ Huxley had given a Friday evening course on physiology at the School of Mines in 1863 ( …
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