From T. H. Huxley 7 July 1857
Summary
THH comments on G. A. Brullé’s paper ["Researches upon the transformations of the appendages of the Articulata", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 13 (1844): 484–6].
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 July 1857 |
| Classmark: | DAR 11.1: 41a |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2119 |
From T. H. Huxley 2 July 1863
Summary
Too busy to examine specimen. Will ask W. H. Flower to do it. Long catalogue of what keeps him busy and concerned.
C. Carter Blake, "a jackal of Owen’s", is the reviewer in Edinburgh Review and Anthropological Review [see 4223]. Has sent back his diploma of Hon. Fellowship to Anthropological Society.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 July 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 298 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4228 |
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 |
From T. H. Huxley 19 May 1875
Summary
Lyon Playfair’s bill [on vivisection] is unacceptable to all teachers of physiology. It prohibits dissections for demonstrations to students. He will have to repudiate it. Asks CD’s advice.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 May 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 340 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9985 |
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- … 27 May 1875 ). Huxley was teaching zoology at the University of Edinburgh while the professor of zoology Charles Wyville Thompson was on the HMS Challenger expedition; in Scottish universities the lecturer collected fees directly from the students, making large classes highly profitable ( University of Edinburgh Journal 10 (1939–40): 210–12). …
- … 27 May 1875 ). The last printed draft of the bill, made by Richard Buckley Litchfield and dated 24 April 1875, stated that scientific experiments could be made on anaesthetised live animals for the purposes of ‘demonstration, illustration, or new discovery’ (DAR 139.17: 22). In the version of the bill presented to Parliament, this had been changed to the statement quoted by Huxley. CD’s copy of the bill ordered by the House of Commons to be printed on 12 …
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 |
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- … 27 May [1865] ). Huxley delivered the Friday evening lecture at the Royal Institution on 2 June 1865 ( Notices of the Proceedings at the Meetings of the Members of the Royal Institution of Great Britain 4: 461–3); the lecture was on the methods and results of ethnology, and was later published in the Fortnightly Review ( T. H. Huxley 1865 ). Huxley refers to Ernst Haeckel . Haeckel had written to CD in 1864 concerning the reception of Darwinian theory in Germany (see Correspondence vol. 12, …
