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From T. H. Huxley   7 July 1857

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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

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  • … Times & Gazette n.s. 12: 429–32, 481–4, 507–11, 563–7, 618–23; 13: 27–30, 131–4, 157–60, …

From T. H. Huxley   2 July 1863

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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

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  • … See letter to T.  H.  Huxley, 27 June [1863] and n.  12. Huxley refers to Jeffries Wyman …

From T. H. Huxley   1 June 1865

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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

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  • 27 May [1865] and n.  4). No letter from Huxley commenting on CD’s manuscript has been found, but see the letter to T.  H.  Huxley, 12  …

From T. H. Huxley   19 May 1875

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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

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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, …
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