To T. H. Huxley 15 October [1859]
Summary
Origin is finished.
Asks for names of foreign speculative naturalists.
Hopes THH will think he is on right road despite errors.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 15 Oct [1859] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 70) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2505 |
To T. H. Huxley 22 November [1860]
Summary
Has had a good letter from Robert McDonnell. Thinks he will be converted in time.
Impatient to see first number of Natural History Review.
Murray wants a new edition of Origin immediately.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 22 Nov [1860] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 147) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2994 |
To T. H. Huxley 21 [January 1860]
Summary
Sends copy of 2d ed. of Origin, with list of corrections.
Is at work on "fuller work" [Variation].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 21 [Jan 1860] |
| Classmark: | Janet Huxley (private collection); Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 102) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2660 |
To T. H. Huxley 14 April [1860]
Summary
On THH’s "Deep-sea soundings in the North Atlantic" ["Report on the examination of specimens of bottom" in Deep-sea soundings made in H.M.S. "Cyclops", Lieut. Commander J. Dayman (1858)]. Suggests further investigations be made of deposits of calcareous organisms.
THH’s "extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science" ["The origin of species", Westminster Rev. 17 (1860): 541–70].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 14 Apr [1860] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 115) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2760 |
To T. H. Huxley 11 January [1860]
Summary
On the problem of want of sterility in crosses of domestic varieties. Refers to discussion in Origin, pp. 267–72 ["Fertility of varieties when crossed"]. We do not know precise cause of sterility in species.
Andrew Murray has attacked Origin [see 2647].
H. C. Watson objects to natural selection on grounds of limitless diversification of species.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 11 Jan [1860] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 98) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2649 |
From Thomas Henry Huxley 16 January 1864
Summary
Asks CD to sign certificate nominating Flower for Royal Society.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Jan 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 300 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4388 |
To T. H. Huxley 27 November [1859]
Summary
Sends references for materials useful for THH’s lecture.
Breeding and crossing. Pigeon fanciers.
Responses to Origin: A. C. Ramsay, Charles Kingsley, Quatrefages de Bréau.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 27 Nov [1859] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 76) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2558 |
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- … 1860 . Joseph Prestwich , a specialist on the Tertiary geology of Britain, had recently become interested in the question of the antiquity of man. No correspondence indicating his response to Origin has been found, but see Correspondence vol. 8, letter to Joseph Prestwich, 12 March [1860] . See letter from Charles Kingsley, 18 November 1859 , and letter to Charles Kingsley, 30 November [1859] . CD mentioned the same point to Charles Lyell …
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Darwin in Conversation exhibition
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Meet Charles Darwin as you have never met him before. Come to our exhibition at Cambridge University Library, running from 9 July to 3 December 2022, and discover a fascinating series of interwoven conversations with Darwin's many hundreds of…
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